Billionaire’s Missing Darling by Theresa Wilde

Chapter 167

“Calm down. She’s still young.” Jarron shook Gillian’s hand and comforted her. “We’re not kids. We

have to be tolerant.”

Gillian was looking at the closed door and was furious. When she heard Jarron’s words, her face froze

for a moment.

Still young? Olivia was still young?

She was sneering in her heart. Jarron always defended her regardless of right or wrong. Olivia was

already in her twenties, yet he still insisted that she was young!

Gillian lowered her head and said calmly, “Alright, I won’t really be angry with her.”

Jarron heaved a sigh of relief.

Gillian just appeared angry and failed to control her temper, but she didn’t mean it. Her bark was worse

than bite so she wouldn’t really hurt Olivia. Now that Jarron was blindly defending this so–called young

girl, she started to feel angry in a true sense.

Olivia’s disobedience, Jarron’s preference for her, how the big shots valued her, and the indelible

influence she left on the Smith family all made Gillian uncomfortable.

Apart from the discomfo

she exerted on Gillian, the position Olivia was consolidating also impaired Gillian’s control over the

Smith family.

This was what Gillian could not tolerate.

In an instant, Gillian comprehended a truth. In an organization, the new successor had to rule out the

competitor even if he had already been a loser. Or he would continue exerting his influence backed by

his faction’s support. Only through exterminating all the competitors and their reactionary forces could

we climb to the peak and maintain our position. If Gillian wanted to take over the Smith family, she had

to let everyone know that she was in charge of the Smith family now. Gillian was the head. Olivia was

already dumped in history. Without her Isaac’s support, Olivia lost her foothold like a leaf adrift in the

wind. She could not stand firm in the Smith family now!

She had to consider this matter in the long run. Gillian needed more time to study it carefully.

When she got home, she immediately confined herself to the study and

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began to rummage through the cabinet. Finally, she found a yellowing book in a secret corner of the

cabinet. The Smith family’s genealogy was well recorded on it.

Gillian’s angertips paused on the title for a moment before quickly flipping to a certain page.

She had once heard her Isaac mention that the Smith family had already split into three branches 200

years ago.

The one that stayed at home was not lineal, but a collateral branch. It was because of the inheritance

of the miraculous treatments that they were modified as lineal descendants. The true lineal branch had

long given up on miraculous treatments and went overseas.

Another branch also remained in the country, but they did not inherit the miraculous treatments.

Instead, they changed their surname to Smithson and became a family of craftsmen.

The exquisite white T–shirt Olivia wore was made by this family. The Smithson family had almost

completely broken away from the Smith family. They were now in a cooperative relationship. They

provided clothes, shoes, and hats to the Smiths. The Smith family was obligated to provide medical

services and food to them in return.

Gillian wanted to contact that lineal branch overseas through the Smithson family.

According to her Isaac, the lineal Smiths overseas had switched to business and had become a

powerful tycoon. They could even exert an influence on the election.

Gillian wanted to contact the Smith family overseas and cooperate with them to develop the Smith

family’s secret recipe to push the Smith family to the international stage.

Unfortunately, she did not have the contact information. Furthermore, the Smith family overseas had

already changed the name and had become complete foreigners. It was impossible to find them.

Therefore, she had to ask for help from the master of the Smithson family to get the contact method.

The Smithson family had always been very close to her Isaac. Even before her Isaac’s accident, they

still often gave him excellent clothes and precious jewelry as gifts.

However, after Isaac fainted, their attitude towards them was not as good

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as before. Although they still provided clothes, jewelry was no longer sent

over.

Gillian knew what they were thinking. They were worried that she wouldn’t be able to lead the Smith

family.

However, it was not the time to haggle over these things.

Gillian packed up some things and went to the Smithson family to ask for a meeting with Mr. Smithson.

The master of the Smithson family was in his 80s, almost 90 years old. He was even older than Isaac.

However, he was still heaty and hale.

When Gillian came over, he was studying a game of chess with a frown on his face. He had been

holding a piece in his hand for a long time as if no matter what he did next, he would be bound to lose

the game.

When he heard that Gillian was here, he excitedly waved his hand. “Oh, Gillian is here. Let that girl in.”

Gillian had just stepped through the door when she was called over by Mr. Smithson. “Gillian, my girl,

come over here. Tell me, what’s your opinion about my next move?”

He had been lost in thought for a few days. He had asked many other people, but none of them could

provide anything useful.

Gillian had also learned chess. She had been paying attention to almost everything Olivia had been

learning when she was young, including chess.

When she was a little girl, Isaac didn’t allow her to learn to play chess, so she learned it secretly. After

junior high school, she got more pocket money, so she enrolled in the chess course. She studied there

for a while, even Olivia couldn’t be her match. After entering university, she even participated in a

chess competition and won an award. So Gillian was quite very confident in her chess skills.

She strolled over and sat opposite him, looking down at the unfinished board.

She thought that it would be easy to resolve, but after looking at the board for more than ten minutes,

her eyes turned blurry and a headache crept into her body. However, she still failed to figure out a

solution.

There was no way out for Mr. Smithson’s side. He would definitely lose.

As soon as she said this, Mr. Smithson rejected it. “No! That’s impossible. That’s not what Livy said.

She said that there’s still a chance!”

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Gillian was stunned. Her expression immediately turned gloomy. Her voice was absent–minded. “Mr.

Smithson, you asked Olivia before?” Mr. Smithson shook his head. “No, I played this game with her.

The day she returned to Layfield, I invited her to play chess with me. At first, she was still unwilling to

play a game. I’ve been pleading for a long time and my lips are almost worn out. Then finally she

agreed to play with me. She was probably in a bad mood that day and so she didn’t show any mercy.

It’s her show time all through the game and soon it became like this.”

Speaking of this, Mr. Smithson felt aggrieved.

Where was the kind, adorable, and considerate Olivia? Where was the old Olivia going? She had

changed!

In the past, she had always been patient and never refused to play chess with him. She would not

defeat him utterly, nor would she let him win easily. It was like an AI that could adapt herself to match

his level. It was truly an amazing experience to play with Olivia..

But now, she had become a different person.

Gillian’s eyes were no longer calm. She couldn’t believe it. Since it was Olivia’s chess game, how could

she not see a flaw? Olivia was not even as good as her.

In the past, when they played chess, Olivia was always the loser. She had never won. In her best

performance, she managed to persevere for an hour but still lost the last move.

Plus, Finley, Olivia’s chess teacher, had frequently criticized Olivia’s poor performance. She couldn’t

even last ten minutes when playing with him. She was the worst student he had ever met in his lifetime.

Every time he saw Olivia, he would scold her for a long time.

Why did she suddenly improve her skills?

Gillian stared at the stalemate and remained silent for a long time. Her mind was in a daze.

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