The CEO’s Substitute Lover

Lilian Drye, who had called Tredan Davi numerous times but had not been answered, was furious and smashed everything in her room; Octavia Gills was her nemesis, that ungrateful bitch! She should never have let her go abroad to take care of Tredan Davi. Lilian Drye has spent the last 20 years of her life pretending to be so well-mannered and considerate in front of Tredan Davi, she has worked so hard to play up the feeling that Octavia Gills gave Tredan Davi, she has worked so hard to get to where she is today. How could she let someone else ruin it so easily! Octavia would have to be kept away from Tredan Davi for good to put Lilian’s mind at ease.

When Octavia Gills arrived at work this morning, she was particularly anxious about what to say to Eddison Davi. When Octavia Gills returned to her office, she saw a bouquet of red roses. It was exactly the same as the previous two, except that this time there was an extra card on top of the flowers with the words: Octavia I don’t care about any of your past, I’ve never taken someone so seriously before. Please give me a chance, and give yourself a chance! I’ll wait for you!

Tredan and Eddison Davi are both younger than Octavia Gills, and by definition they are both Octavia Gills’ brothers in general, but Tredan Davi never felt like a brother to her. Tredan Davi gave her a strong, dominant manly vibe that had Octavia Gills captivated without resistance.

Eddison Davi is a very different person. To Octavia Gills, Eddison Davi is a kind brother, just like the way she treats Gar Gills. At the moment, Eddison Davi is so insistent that he probably doesn’t understand the meaning of what she said at the time, but never mind, he will understand in time.

It’s just that there was already a lot of buzz among the staff at the subsidiary, and today Eddison Davi swaggered into Octavia Gills’ office with a big smile on his face and set it up in a vase for Octavia Gills before going back to his office.

This seems to have reinforced the corporate gossip that Eddison Davi and Octavia Gills are, at best, boyfriend and girlfriend, or at worst, it’s pretty much the same story about how Octavia Gills went to great lengths to seduce Eddison Davi!

Octavia Gills was not as bothered about this as she was at first, because Octavia Gills only believes in being righteous. But Octavia Gills is glad she has a good girlfriend, Domino, who must have been having a lot of tongue-lashing with those who were bad-mouthing her.

“I’m sorry, young lady, but you have to make an appointment to see our General Manager.”

Lilian Drye was given a project by her father to follow up for him, a deal between Group Drye and Group Davi. It was originally thought that Lilian Drye had asked her father to take on the project as a handover to Tredan Davi, to get some experience. Thinking of his youngest son, Floyd Davi handed over the project to Eddison Davi, for him to take charge of the DD project and to support to him, who never really complained about anything. So now, Lilian Drye shows up at Eddison Davi’s office, but before she entered, she simply said that she was looking for their managing director and was refused entry by the clueless receptionist.

“Are you blind? How could Group Davi hire a loser like you when you don’t even know I am? Are you sure you have what it takes to make it in this business?” Not bad for the only daughter of a big family, her tone was irritatingly wild.

“Hey, are you a sick or something? There are so many women who want to come and see our general manager every day, if you have an appointment, I’d gladly let you in, if not, please go back and make an appointment before you come.” She meets all sorts of people who are trying to get to the general manager in any way they could, every single day, and as a receptionist, she is fed up with it. “And let me remind you, my general manager now has a beautiful woman, who is much cleverer than you with your fake appointments, and you don’t look as good as her.”

When a colleague saw the receptionist talking about her boss behind his back, she signaled to the clerk beside her, who in turn gave a kick to the receptionist, imploring her not to talk nonsense.

Lilian Drye has never been treated with such indifference in all her life. And to be treated like she was a fan of Eddison Davi, who had already fallen under her spell?!Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

Lilian Drye picked up her phone and called Eddison Davi, determined to have the yellow-haired girl punished for mistreated her.

“Hello, I wonder what the beautiful Ms. Lilian has in mind when she calls for her little brother?” Eddison Davi saw Lilian Drye’s call and didn’t dare to slacken his tongue.

“Well, Mr. Eddison, I’m flattered by your humble words, how dare I, Lilian Drye, order you to do anything! I’m now here at your front door and I’m being intimidated by your little front desk clerk!” Lilian Drye deliberately raised her voice in front of the clerk who had just embarrassed her.

Could it be Lilian Drye, the sole heir to Group Davi, who has had many partnerships and who owns shares in Group Davi?

“Ms. Lilian, wait for me there, I will personally go out to meet you and dismiss the derelict staff in front of you.” It was his fault for being too relaxed with his subordinates and not wanting to treat them so harshly, but he couldn’t protect them from this bossy woman.

“Fine, then I’ll wait here for you to come out and lead me in yourself.” Lilian Drye waited to see what would happen and took out that air cushion CC powder to enchantingly and calmly touch up her make-up.

Lilian Drye had barely finished her retouching her make-up when she saw Eddison Davi panting and running towards her.

The two receptionists were dumbfounded and realized that their jobs were definitely on the line. Horrified, they stood up from their desks to apologize to Lilian Drye.

“… Ms. Lilian, I have eyes that are not aware of the mountain, please be generous and don’t ever see eye-to-eye with us!” Lilian Drye watched with satisfaction as they begged for mercy for themselves.

“Don’t worry, I’m an upscale celebrity, so I won’t get on your bad side.” Looking at Eddison Davi, who was already in front of her, Octavia Gills smiled quickly and then said, “It’s just that Group Davi should take a good look at the quality of its staff, don’t you think, Mr. Eddison? It’s a good thing I’m a part of Group Davi today, if it was anyone else, Group Davi would be the laughing stock of the business world.”

Eddison Davi was able to grasp the implications of Lilian Drye’s words, the bossy woman was really something!” After saying this, Eddison Davi went to the two receptionists, who were already in tears, and said, “General Manager, we are only following your instructions, no one is allowed in without an appointment, you cannot fire us!”

“After today’s shift, you don’t have to come to work tomorrow!” Eddison Davi knows the temper of the princess of the Drye Family, if he doesn’t let her get away with it today, he will not only have to go to his father’s office tomorrow, he will also have to go to the Drye Family to apologize and make amends!

“General Manager, no, General Manager!”

Eddison Davi paid no attention to the two clerks crying out, and hurried to lead Lilian Drye to his office.

“Ms. Lilian, please sit down! What would you like to drink? It’s almost lunchtime and I’ve asked my secretary to book a room at that Japanese restaurant, so wait, Ms. Lilian must be gracious enough to go out for a meal!”

“No need to go to all that trouble, I’m here today, for this project.” Said Lilian Drye, taking a file out of her bag and placing it on Eddison Davi’s desk. Then sitting gracefully, she said coldly, “I don’t know if Uncle Floyd has told you about this project, but of course, it was originally my responsibility together with Tredan, and because of that incident with your uncle it was transferred to your side. So, I thought I’d come and see you today to finalize some details and I’d like to get this project finished as soon as possible.”

“Oh, yes, by the way, there’s a rumor going around in the office that you and my brother are getting engaged? Are you in such a hurry for this happy occasion?” Eddison Davi wanted to make sure that the news was true, and if it was, it would be just what he wanted.

Lilian Drye smiled with unconcealed happiness. “Sort of!”

Eddison Davi was delighted to hear it, but how could he best deliver the news to Octavia Gills?

Looking at Eddison Davi’s face transform from happy to sad, Lilian Drye thought he was smiling and frowning because he liked her and now, but heard it straight from her that she was getting engaged to Tredan Davi.

“Mr. Eddison? Mr. Eddison!” called Lilian Drye to a disoriented Eddison Davi.

“Huh? Oh… I’m sorry, I lost my concentration just now. I’m so happy for you guys! To see that your relationship with my big brother, after so many years, can finally come to fruition! Please make sure you go on to the happily ever after ending!” That’s the only way Octavia Gills will definitely let go of his big brother, and that would be the best outcome!

Lilian Drye was surprised to learn that Eddison Davi knew what she was doing and knew how to look at the bigger picture.

“We definitely will! All right, let’s get started!”

“Well, yes!”

Eddison Davi and Lilian Drye were engaged in conversation for several hours until Eddison Davi’s secretary informed them that it was time for lunch and they both dropped the project proposal at hand.

“Ms. Lilian, this is a new Japanese restaurant that opened last month, the taste is very authentic though the ingredients are very local. I heard that you also like to eat Japanese food, I wonder if Ms. Lilian would like to go and try this authentic and genuine Japanese food?”

“You… I see that you are really quite funny and graceful, such a thoughtful arrangement is definitely good, I just have to go to the restroom first. You can go first to get the car and wait for me at the gate!” After sitting for so long, my makeup also needs a retouch, it’s time to go and fix it!

Lilian Drye grabbed her bag and was guided to the restroom by Eddison Davi, who then went down to the basement parking garage to collect his car.

As Lilian came to the restroom mirror, she poured out all her lipstick, foundation, eyebrow powder, eyeliner and other make-up in her bag and was carefully touching up her face. At that moment, there were two women in two separate cubicles talking through the walls about the gossip headlines in the Group Davi subsidiary.

“I heard that this Octavia Gills was waiting in the bar for our General Manager to strike!” The voice on the left spoke a little hoarsely.

“No way, I usually see Ms. Octavia as svelte, she’s not that kind of person!” The one on the right said this and it was the clear that she was young and not really into the office gossip yet.