Chapter 144 Penelope, Nirvana Returns!
After a fierce inner struggle, Samuel finally decided to inform the boss.
After believing that Ms. Sullivan had died, the boss truly became too terrifying. With an expressionless, icy face, he could scare the major managers to the point of peeing their pants.
Recently, the top floor of the Spencer Group building was surrounded by low pressure every day. The people who worked for the group didn't dare to make a sound, fearing that if they carelessly annoyed their boss, they would be sent to reincarnate.
Yesterday, the Minister of the Finance Department made a slight mistake while reporting his work. In fact, it was a very, very minor mistake.
The boss had always been strict. In the past, he would also show a cold face when faced with such elementary mistakes.
But yesterday...
It was truly terrifying. The boss's face was as cold as if it had been frozen in a refrigerator for hundreds of years. The words he spoke were even colder, like a Siberian wind blowing, turning everyone in the meeting room into ice pops.
The Minister of the Finance Department was almost scared to tears.
Not only that, the female secretaries of the group, who used to vie with each other to show off in front of the boss, now, they all dared not bring him coffee.
Every time the coffee was brought back, the little girls would be scared to tears.
There were a few times when Samuel was actually almost scared to tears.
With a firm pat on his own little heart, Samuel cautiously knocked on the door of the president's office, "Boss..."
"Come in!" The succinct voice startled Samuel, causing him to shudder involuntarily. He gently pushed open the large office door in front of him, taking small, tentative steps as he nervously approached Zackary.
"Boss, I..."
"Spit it out!" Zackary's face was dark, his voice filled with obvious impatience. Clearly, if he dared to utter another word of nonsense, he would throw him off this building.
The window was open, a cool breeze blew in, and Samuel got goosebumps all over his body.
Thinking of the image of being thrown out of the window of this building and floating in the air, his not-so-weak body trembled even more.
He placed his phone on Zackary's desk, "Boss, I just read a piece of news."
Zackary's sharp gaze pierced his face, almost scaring him into stuttering.
His appearance clearly indicated that he wanted to torture him to death, to let him die and reincarnate sooner.
Samuel bit his tongue, forcing it to stop tripping over itself, and regain its eloquent form.
He closed his eyes, mustered up the courage and said it all in one breath, "Boss, I was watching the news, I really wasn't slacking off during work hours! My watching the news was purely coincidental! Boss, I saw Ms. Sullivan on the news! Your ex-wife, Miss Penelope! Miss Penelope is still alive, and moreover, with a photo of her holding a bottle of perfume, she became an overnight sensation on the internet, becoming the nation's first love that captivated thousands of young men!"
"Just now, I checked and Miss Penelope's name has already topped the trending list. She can now be considered the hottest internet celebrity!"
A month had already passed since that fire.
Every time he heard the name Penelope, a knife-like pain would still cut through Zackary's heart.
He forced himself not to think about her, not to think about anything related to her, but the pain in his heart was still increasing rather than decreasing.
Sometimes, he felt, he was already dead.
A heart, along with Penelope's body, was burned to ashes. His heart, which was never particularly warm to begin with, completely died and was forever laid to rest underground.
He was now just a walking corpse, a working machine.
Every day, he worked frantically, mechanically handling the tasks at hand, so that his heart wouldn't ache as if it was being run over by a wheel time and time again.
Samuel noticed that Zackary had no intention of paying attention to him, which made him somewhat anxious. He cleared his throat and raised his voice by several notches.
"Boss, Miss Penelope is still alive!"
Hearing Samuel's shout, the pen in Zackary's hand finally paused for a moment.
Immediately, it was a silent self-mockery.
Look, he was hallucinating again, he actually heard his always meticulous and thorough special assistant say, Penelope was still alive.
How could she possibly still be alive!
It was he who personally applied her makeup for the funeral, it was he who personally fitted her with a wig, it was he who personally carried back her ashes.
A living person had long since turned into a handful of ashes, she couldn't possibly come back!
"Samuel, what did you just say?!" The voice was cold and not particularly loud, but it always carried an invisible pressure that almost made it hard to breathe.
Samuel took a long breath, only then did he feel that the air around him was not so thin.
He mustered up the courage to point at his phone screen, "Boss, Miss Penelope is still alive! She's become the hottest internet celebrity, the nation's first love!"
Hearing Samuel's voice, Zackary's gaze finally fell on the phone screen in front of him.
On the phone screen, Penelope, dressed in a pure white vintage dress, holding a bottle of colorless perfume, smiled charmingly, stunningly beautiful.
The makeup on her face was extremely light, but the color on Penelope's face was just too good. Not to mention light makeup, even if she didn't wear any makeup, she could still make other women lose their color.
In fact, there was a natural charm about Penelope that was captivating. In the photos, she might have appeared too innocent because of the colors she wore. Her smile was so pure that it almost diminished her seductive allure.
It increasingly appeared ethereal and unworldly, captivating all beings.
Zackary's fingertips uncontrollably caressed the face on the phone screen that he had been thinking about day and night.
His chest, too, was softly trembling.
She was still alive, how wonderful.
But after the joy, there was even more violent anger.
She was actually still alive!
People all over the world knew that Zackary, for a deceased woman, lived a life that was neither human nor ghost, worse than death. Yet she was still alive, but chose to hide it from him!
Did she feel particularly good seeing him go crazy for her, heartbroken for her?!
Ha!
Returned to the first love of the nation?!
Was she not satisfied with seducing just two or three men? Did she want to seduce all the men in the world?! Who gave her such audacity!
Zackary exploded, and the unfortunate victim was Samuel's poor phone.
Samuel shakily picked up his phone, the screen shattered from the boss's abuse. He was planning to avoid provoking the boss further and to smoothly make his exit, when his nearly sacrificed phone surprisingly received another news notification.
The nation's first love, Penelope, was invited to audition for the spokesperson of Throne.
The spokesperson for Throne auditioned?!
Samuel was taken aback, how did he stumble upon this again? Just a few days ago, he saw on the news that Lola was the spokesperson for Throne, it was a sure thing!
"Boss, there's news about Miss Penelope on the internet again," Samuel raised his phone and spoke timidly.