Oliver's Substitute Bride (Oliver and Jessica)

Chapter 285

The next day.

Jane came to the Jessica Art Gallery again.

It was the opening ceremony yesterday, and the gallery was so crowded that she didn't have the

chance to take a look at her previous paintings.

She knew that Oliver had specially asked someone to frame the paintings and organized a

commemorative exhibition of Jessica's works.

These works were not very mature, but they were fairly precious to her.

Her previous works were now placed here by Oliver. She wanted to get them back, but could not find a

reasonable excuse.

However, all these belonged to her. She would come back sooner or later and would not leave anything

hers to irrelevant people anymore.

Vivian said, "Jane, are these all the traditional Chinese paintings you have painted?"

Jane nodded in sign of acquiescence.

"If Mr. Kim had seen these works, he should be publicizing them in his Instagram."

"He can't do that."

Vivian almost forgot that these works were under the name of Jessica, not Jane.

Probably, it was because she had seen too many paintings like these in Holland.

Gavin often praised his daughter in front of some familiar friends, that she had not only artistic talents

but also gifts in doing business.

In the past few years when Jane had been running the flower company, she had been helping the

company to increase its market share in Europe by 20% and even export to many Asia countries.

The reason why she came back was to deal with her private affairs. Besides, she was going to set up a

branch in Birmingham. She was coming back to carry out her grand plans.

So coming back as an artist would not attract the attention of the business circle in Birmingham.

She could not come back without concealment, nor could she come back as the daughter of the Kim

family.

That was why Gavin shouldn't even appear in Birmingham.

Otherwise, it was most likely for the company to be besieged by the people who used to confront the

Kim family.

Lucas had been doing a lot of research over the past few years about what had happened to the Kim

family in Birmingham. Although it was a long time ago, he still managed to obtain some of the inside

information.

He had been encouraging Gavin to come back to Birmingham and take back everything the Kim family

had lost before.

However, Gavin always disagreed now that he had a son and a daughter, which had become both his

biggest weakness and strongest backing.

He didn't want to bring about unnecessary risks to his children because of what had happened in the

past.

Despite that he had been wronged so badly, and that he knew someone told a great lie intending to kill

him, he could swallow it.

The Kim Group was one of the wealthiest groups in Europe now. He was fully capable of finding justice

for himself, but he chose to evade it.

Although Jane admired her father's generosity, she had already died once.

Not only did she suffer a lot of physical injuries, but also mental damage so intense that it would even

follow her to the rest of her life.

She was trying her best to accept the negative emotions in her mind.

It was not easy for her to return from the gate of hell, so she only hoped that she could live willfully

without restraints in the future.

In the past, because of grandma and the baby in her womb, she had to compromise with people

around her again and again.

Her weakness did not bring her a better life. There had always been people preying on her.

Now Gavin and Lucas were the closest people to her, so she didn't want them to be used by others to

control her one day.

Therefore, few people knew the fact she was the daughter of the Kim family.

Of course, as her assistant and bodyguard, Vivian knew everything about her.

Vivian was the child of a servant brought to Holland by the Kim family. She grew up in the family and

had always been studying with Lucas.

In order to protect Lucas, Gavin had provided Vivian with special training since she was young.

With such a female bodyguard by his side, Lucas would not look too ostentatious.

But later on, Lucas didn't like a fettered life, and fortunately, there was no danger around him.

Vivian had been working at the Kim Group. As Jane arrived, Gavin sent her to follow Jane and to

protect her.

So, Jane came back only with Vivian this time.

Two women coming to Birmingham would not attract anyone's attention. In the views of outsiders, they

were just two frail women, incapable of stirring up any trouble. Apart from their bad temper, there was

nothing worthy of mentioning about them.

This was exactly the imptession she wanted to leave to the outside world.

What she was going to do was to turn Birmingham upside down, so that she wouldn't come back in

vain.

Jessica looked around at a circle of Chinese paintings hanging on the wall. There was only one that

was not included there, the one called 'Hibiscus' that she had given to Oliver back then. Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

This painting was the one she wanted to take back.

During the time when she had lost all her memories, she drew this painting in memory of Maggie,

Oliver's mother, who had a preference for hibiscus,

The painting represented her feelings for Oliver, but it was a mistake.

She was starting to slowly correct her previous mistakes now.

After Jane and Vivian left the art gallery, they looked around and saw that there was a shop next to the

art gallery for rent.

She was looking for a place to set up her own art studio. It would be great if it was close to this art

gallery.

One reason was that even if she was unable to take back her work for the time being, it would be nice

to come and see it often.

Another reason was that she had to make her name known in Birmingham as soon as possible.

Most of the people who knew Jane now were from the art circle.

She had to make more people know about her so that she could do things more easily in Birmingham

in the future.

The Kim family was rich now, yet they had already cut off their network in Birmingham, which required

her to start establishing slowly.

Even though the property management company was renting out estates around the art gallery, there

were very high requirements for tenants.

Oliver specifically gave these instructions.

The staff knew that this art gallery was of extraordinary significance to Oliver.

So one had to obtain Oliver's permission before he was able to settle there.

The property management company specifically told Jane that they had no right to make a decision for

the time being. She was asked to fill out a form first, and then a special person would call to reply after

the form was submitted.

If it was likely for her to rent, someone would come to handle the matters.

When Jane heard about such a complicated procedure, she realized that it was probable that Oliver

would personally interview the tenant.

She didn't know if her obsession with renting the house was reasonable or not, so she asked Vivian to

fill out the form and handed it in first.

Maybe, she would be rejected directly, then it was over.

Vivian didn't expect it to be so complicated to rent a studio. That man named Oliver was really finicky,

she thought.

However, this aspect was also somewhat on a par with Jane.

She filled out the form obediently, hoping to pass the preliminary review smoothly.