A Love Trap

Chapter 371 Andrew Came Here For Ashley

'I probably need to handle this. This is Miss Mu we're talking about, ' Johnny thought to himself.

"Okay. Then you can proceed as I've instructed," Johnny said.

As Johnny spoke, two people came in to escort Sylvia out. Sylvia must've been so preoccupied that it didn't take much to get her out of the room.

Mr. Mao's face darkened upon seeing all of this.

He was at a loss for words. He used to think that Sylvia was a bright girl but she didn't seem so bright at that moment.

'How could she do that? Mr. Lu exposed her! How can I help her now?' Mr. Mao cried out in his heart.

At that moment, everyone in the conference room was exchanging glances and thinking about the exact same thing.

Everything happened so quickly. Suddenly, it was Andrew himself, the CEO of the Lu Group, dealing with the drama of the staff.

Even Kelly didn't expect this to happen.

However, Ashley was Johnny's cousin and Johnny was Andrew's trustworthy assistant. It seemed perfectly logical that Andrew would help Ashley.

Suddenly, Andrew stood up and said plainly, "The competition shall continue." Then he left with Johnny.

Everyone at the conference room watched them leave.

They still hadn't come to their senses long after Andrew had left.

'So, why did Mr. Lu come here in the first place?' they thought collectively.

Kelly was the one to break the silence. She looked around and immediately noticed that everyone was lost in thought. Then she said, "Well, best to let it go. The competition will continue in a while."

Kelly then looked towards the door where Andrew had just been and frowned to herself. 'What is Mr. Lu trying to prove or do?

Did he just come to visit?

Why did he leave so soon?' she thought to herself.

If Kelly had voiced this out to Johnny, he probably would have responded with, "Mr. Lu only came here for Miss Mu. He wanted to see Miss Mu. Why else would he be here?

This is the first time that he has done such a thing.

Now that Miss Mu's problems have been dealt with. There was no reason for Mr. Lu to stay. He wouldn't waste his time."

Johnny knew a lot about Andrew, having been his assistant for years.

He had grown to know Andrew over the years of being his assistant.

After Andrew left, the competition went on and they didn't run into any more problems.

After the competition, everyone went back to their respective desks to get back to work.

Some of them were still gossiping about Sylvia. "I didn't think Sylvia would be able to do something like that."

"Yes, I used to think that she was arrogant. They say she wouldn't be able to work here if she hadn't pulled some strings. I think she's a mistress to some big time, rich guy. That's why she's so arrogant but I didn't think she'd be capable of doing something like that."

"Yes. I can't believe she stole Ashley's design!"

"Thank god. She didn't take my design. I wouldn't have known what to do besides keep it to myself."

"Yeah, me too."

"Well, I have to say I was surprised the most by Ashley. Johnny was her cousin. No wonder he came in swooping to Ashley's defense."

"Ashley's so lucky to have such a nice and well-connected cousin." This is from NôvelDrama.Org.

If Johnny were here, he would stop them from saying all those things.

'Why are you giving me credit for helping Miss Mu?

It was Mr. Lu who helped Miss Mu.

Didn't you notice that it was Mr. Lu who asked me to speak on his behalf?' Johnny would say.

"You're right. Why don't I have such a good cousin like him? Maybe if I did, I wouldn't need to work so hard for so many years."

"I'm so jealous. Ashley's so beautiful and she's so lucky to have a cousin like Johnny!"

Since it happened, everyone hadn't stopped talking about it.

Ashley and Amaia, meanwhile, had no idea what others were saying about them.

When they left the conference room, Amaia pulled Ashley aside and asked, "Ashley, did you already have that planned before you came to the conference room?" Ashley looked at Amaia helplessly and said, "No, I didn't have anything like that planned. You saw how anxious I was when I couldn't find my design in my drawer.

If Sylvia hadn't stolen it to use for herself or just threw it elsewhere, I wouldn't know where to look. I was lucky that she didn't throw it away."

Amaia asked, "Then what about your name on the design? You were so sure that you had signed your design. I had better do that too. I need to start signing my designs, just in case."

Ashley touched her nose and explained, "I just wrote it down by accident. I got the inspiration at home so I quickly started drawing. I can't remember why I decided to write down my name later on.

Good thing I did that, huh?"

Amaia put her arm around Ashley's shoulder and said, "Well, it's all over now. We were able to prove that it's yours. Isn't that great? Sylvia was fired and you got your design back. Let's get back to work!"

"Okay!

Thank you for being so good to me. You were so supportive," Ashley said gratefully.

"Well, we're friends. I should be good to you. Next time this happens again, you should tell me so I can help you," Amaia said.

Ashley smiled and said, "Okay."

Amaia whispered to Ashley, "I think everyone in our department now knows that Johnny is your cousin. Just watch out. I think they like him."

Ashley scrunched up her eyebrows. 'But Johnny isn't my cousin.

Can you all stop associating him with me?' she thought inwardly.

"It's fine. I don't care about them. They're not my friends anyway. I'll just act normally like how did before.

Well, how are you and Johnny... Cousin Johnny?" Ashley almost slipped up and called Johnny by just his name. Luckily, she was able to catch herself on time.

'Oh, no! I almost exposed it.

But I think it's normal to just call one's cousins by their name, ' she thought to herself.

Ashley didn't know much about things like this. Lena and Ron were her only sister and brother respectively.

She didn't have a cousin.

Besides, she didn't even know who her actual family was.