Mr. CEO, You're Just A Substitute novel Chapter 7

Starry took the divorce papers back. "When did I ever teach you to meddle with someone else's purse?"

Edward shrugged and said in an aggrieved tone of voice, "I didn't. You threw your purse on the sofa when you came back, and that thing just fell out. I didn't know what it was until I picked it up."

As he said so, he paused and then drew close to her with his smiling eyes, "Are you really divorced?"

Starry looked askance at him and said impassively, "Yes."

But the way he looked at Starry made Starry look up at him. "Any problem?"

Starry couldn't help but ask it out loud seeing that he had been silent for so long.

Edward hung his head with a curious look in his attractively smiling eyes.

After a while, he raised his head and flashed a big smile at her, "There surely is a problem. Why didn't you tell such good news to me earlier so we can eat something good and celebrate it!"

Starry laughed at the words, and said, "Don't even think about it. You are all over the news. So don't even think about going out in the next few days."

The smiling-eyed Edward waved the phone in his hand and said, "You are more famous than me this time, Starry."

Edward was right, as Edward's "rumored girlfriend", Filip's wife and young lady of the Pearson family, Starry was indeed a hotter discussed subject.

That morning, she was pictured when she was picking Edward up at the airport, and the pictures were spread directly on the Internet. Soon, Starry was found to be Filip's wife, who had married him in a low-key way.

The labels of "Edward Willis' rumored girlfriend" and "Filip Pearson's wife" were already sensational enough and when the explosive news heated up on the Internet in less than an hour, it was said that the villa where Starry lived had been bought for her by Edward four years before with his first show pay.

At seven in the evening, Edward's rival Eli Foster had made it all over the news that Edward was the one who came between Filip and Starry.

It came to the point where the public opinion had gone out of control. Eli's fans joined Edward's anti-fans in the attack on Edward, whose fans fought back the anti-fan army while lashing out at Starry for seducing Edward. Meanwhile, some bystanders who were fans of no one were adding the fuel to the heated chaos.

The news soon came to the Pearson family. Frances's face darkened after some phone calls. "Don't these people have something better to do in their life?"

Although she was satisfied with Starry's family background, Starry had been married to her grandson for five years, during which she seemed to be well-educated and sophisticated. So Frances eventually convinced herself to accept Starry as her granddaughter-in-law. Those people just called to make fun of her, and the old lady knew it.

It was true that she didn't actually like Starry, but she was satisfying in some way as her grandson's wife. As for Starry' s character, the old lady wasn't so blind and ignorant as to find it questionable.

It was impossible for Starry to cheat on Filip.

Aunt Martha, who had been around her, worried that the old lady would be too upset, so she soon began to comforted her, "Mrs. Pearson, we all know what kind of person young Mrs. Pearson is. The press like to make things up and talk nonsense. I believe young Mr. Pearson will take care of it."

Speaking of Filip, the old lady was even angrier. "I asked him to make up with Starry the other day. He told me that it's none of his business! I wish he could mind it!"

Frances knew her grandson well.