ENCHANTED LOVE, VOLUME 3 - Season 12 Episode 52

Looking around, Sheryl immediately felt like she was on a deserted island, and she happened to be the ruler of it.

Although she had the whole island all by herself, she felt like sooner or later, she would starve to death, because there was nothing to eat.

Sheryl heaved a deep sigh, and in a determined but still reluctant voice, she said, “This is not a big deal. We can always start over.”

Then again, even with that optimism, she wasn’t in a better situation than a king of an uninhabited island. All of her employees had quit, except Isla.

Meanwhile, Isla didn’t know how to comfort Sheryl. This was, in fact, a devastating situation. As she was scrolling on her phone, a piece of news suddenly caught her attention. “Wait, Sher! Look at this!” she screamed in surprise, making Sheryl’s heart skip a beat. Sheryl leaned over.

A high, modulated voice could be heard from the video as the host announced, “Breaking news! We all know about Sheryl cheating on her husband, the CEO of Shining Corp. But our journalists have gathered another revelation.

No need for more details. Roll video!”

Immediately, the security videos that Charles had copied started playing on the screen. Sheryl and Isla watched as Duncan and the two kids kidnapped appeared on the video. The kidnapper then got his phone to dial Sheryl and called her. His voice was clearly heard in the security footage. He threatened Sheryl to admit that she had an affair, and that she was the woman in the naked photos.

Following the security footage were the evidences that Charles had intended to show at the press conference.

The proof stated that those naked pictures had been processed, and the security videos had clear images and sound, enough to disapprove what had been previously assumed.

At this point, anyone who saw the news would understand that Sheryl had been, indeed, framed.

Her eyes still glued on the screen as the host summarized and concluded the problem, Isla beamed and exclaimed, “Look, Sher! It’s about you! Everyone will know that you are innocent, and your problems now are resolved.” With happy tears built up in her eyes, Isla then turned to Sheryl with a smile.

“Let me have a look,” Sheryl replied. Instead of a smile on her face, a confused expression plastered on it as she took the phone from Isla. She never thought that Charles would be able to find those security videos overnight. Moreover, she didn’t expect that he would contact all the television networks to release them and prove her innocence in such a short time.

Isla interrupted her train of thought when she spoke again and suggested that she look at the comments below the video post. Previously, when the news had come about Sheryl’s cheating, there were a lot of negative and hurtful comments below the reports, so she could never dare read them. However, things were a lot different now that the truth had been exposed to the public.

The comments section had been flooded as new comments popped up every second. Sheryl and Isla read the top comments and the first said, “Turns out that Mrs. Taylor has been set up! Oh my God!”

While the second comment read, “Wow. I can’t believe that Mrs. Taylor’s children had been abducted, and she had been forced to admit that she had an affair. I didn’t know that these plots that I only watched in dramas could also happen in real life. I have to admit, though, that she is a brave woman and a great mother at that!”

A netizen replied on that comment and read, “Oh, I definitely agree with you. She admitted something that she didn’t do, most possibly knowing that would place her reputation out of line just for the sake of her children. Indeed, she is a great mother!”

Another had replied to that very comment and read, “I think that she is not only a good mother, but she is also a good wife, because, otherwise, Mr. Taylor would not have trusted her and tried to prove her innocence.”

The comments about her went on and on, and all the reviews were in Sheryl’s favor.

Sheryl was about to stop reading them when a comment caught her eye. It read, “But, who is behind all of this?”

Sheryl clicked on the reply to that comment, which said, “It must be Duncan. I have some reliable source. He was one of the managers of Tarsan Corporation, and from what I had heard, he had some grudge against Mrs. Taylor, because of some business problems.”

There was a reply after that. “We all know that Duncan was fired from Tarsan Corporation. He must be a bad guy or had done something wrong, or else, he wouldn’t have gotten fired.”

“At least, he got arrested. That’s good news!” Sheryl read on but was surprised by Isla’s squeal. “Mr. Taylor did it, Sher! From now on, no one will wrongly judge you!” Isla hugged Sheryl tightly for a short while and smiled at her. She really did feel happy for her best friend.

Sheryl gave Isla a weak smile and then continued to stare at the comments calmly. After all that had happened to her recently, she learned to stop caring about what other people thought of her.

Not long after, Sheryl’s phone started ringing. She was overwhelmed by the number of calls she was receiving from her previous clients. They all apologized to her and proposed to place big orders as a form of reconciliation.

After all, the CEO of Cloud Avertising Corp. was Sheryl, the wife of Charles. Since Sheryl turned out to be innocent, it meant that she and Charles still had a good relationship, and they didn’t want to stop their cooperation with the company.

They were determined to cooperate, because they were all afraid that Charles might take revenge on them once he learned what they had done to Sheryl.

Frowning, Isla realized immediately the intentions of those clients and grabbed Sheryl’s phone, dropping it on the sofa. With folded arms, she scolded, “Why are you still taking their calls? Let me remind you that they chose to stop working with us and left us when we were in trouble. Now that you were proven to be innocent, all they want now is to butter you up, because they won’t dare to displease Charles.”

Sheryl bit her lower lip and thought about this situation candidly. After a short while, she replied, “They stopped cooperating, because I am Charles’ wife and they thought I cheated on him. They didn’t want to get themselves into trouble.”

Isla rolled her eyes and heaved a deep sigh. “Whatever. Just ignore them still. The truth is out, and I am certain that we will get new clients soon,” Isla said with a decisive and determined tone. As a matter of fact, Isla couldn’t control her anger as soon as she remembered what their former clients had done to them, and she was determined not to work with those disgusting people ever again.

Sheryl looked at Isla and sighed. “Don’t take it too heavy, Isla. You are right. They chose to leave us, and we will not work with them again. I know we don’t have a big company, but still, we can’t allow ourselves to bring back bullies like them,” she said in a decided tone.

Isla’s anger slowly subsided, and the crease on her forehead started to fade as she replied, “I agree with you. We should just ignore them and teach them a lesson. Let them regret their decisions.”

The news had spread quickly like wildfire. In a blink of an eye, those staff, who were about to finish their resignation procedures, immediately swarmed to Sheryl’s office like bees.

Sheryl looked at all of them, while Isla looked at them in disgust and contempt. “What are you all doing here? There is no need to say goodbye. Just leave as soon as you finish your procedures,” Isla quipped, rolling her eyes at them. Her anger started to come back as she knew why they came here in the first place. ‘They decided to resign earlier, and there is no way we will accept them again,’ Isla thought. She and Sheryl would rather hire inexperienced but dedicated and loyal employees than let these irresponsible people continue to work here.

With an embarrassed look on his face, one employee immediately spoke. “I was wrong, Mrs. Taylor. I want to continue to work here. My wife just called me from the hospital, and she said that her doctor told her that she would recover soon. She asked me to focus on my work, and that she could still take care of our children.”

Another spoke clearly in desperation. “Mrs. Taylor, I was mistaken. The vacant position in a government unit that my parents had gotten me with some connections has been taken already, so I can’t go there anymore. I want to stay here…”

Isla’s anger just continued to rise inside of her as she heard these desperate and shameless excuses. A few minutes ago, they all had been eager to quit their jobs, and now they were to thick to use all kinds of excuses possible just to keep their jobs here.

In short, they were all snobs. After the rumors on their boss got the company in trouble, they all intended to leave, but now that Sheryl’s name had been cleared, they were desperate to stay. For sure, the company was not going to let this slide.