Chapter 15

It was getting close to midnight. Naturally, Meredith spent the night in the guest bedroom of Luke's villa. After bidding goodnight, Meredith lay in bed and started scrolling through TikTok, showing some of the videos from where she used to come from. Suddenly, a video title caught her eye. The title read, "Joshua Gretchen Steps Down as CEO of Gretchen Holdings Due to Personal Issues; Eldest Son Jonah Gretchen Takes the Helm to Lead a New Chapter." Meredith was shocked when she read the news. Joshua's affair with Angel was exposed shortly after she left the country. Gretchen Holdings was a multinational company with branches everywhere, including in Newland, where she was now. But after the scandal broke out, it wasn't just the domestic share prices that plunged—even their international branches were greatly affected too. Within the blink of an eye, they'd deregistered their international branch companies, including the one in Newland. Meredith thought that she would feel happy a