Married at First Sight (Serenity and Zachary) novel Chapter 5330

“Fine, fine. I’ll reimburse you for it. Don’t do such things in the future. Laurence has a heart of stone and won’t fall for such things.”

“I was just trying to be romantic like other people were. Who knew he wouldn’t even look at it, wouldn’t even show his face, and just arrange for a wheel loader to crush my flower arrangement? In all my life, it’s the first time I’ve put so much effort into preparing a flower arrangement for someone.”

Roxy looked up the photo she had taken of the flower arrangement and showed it to her father. “Look, Pa, those flowers were really pretty when all arranged well. If someone sincerely did this for me and proposed to me, I would definitely say yes.”

Manny was quiet.

His daughter was of marriageable age.

Indeed, it was hard to keep daughters at home once they got older.

“Roxy, there’s no need to continue pursuing Laurence anymore. I’ll help you look for a match.”

Manny felt that back then, it had been a mistake to get his daughter to approach Laurence. The two companies were archenemies, and Laurence was such a clever person that there was no way he would fall for his daughter.

Roxy sighed in relief upon hearing her father say there was no need for her to continue pursuing Laurence, but frowned once more after hearing his next sentence. She remarked, “Pa, must you marry me off?

“I don’t want to get married. Can’t I just stay by you and Ma’s side forever and accompany you? I’ll take care of you guys when you retire.”

Of course, if she did take care of her parents in their retirement, their assets could not be left solely to her younger brother.

Roxy wanted to be her father’s successor and take over Longbottom Corporation in the future. Once she became the CEO, she would do everything possible to take Longtail Group down, so that Longbottom Corporation would once again stand at the top of the Havenmill business world.

“We don’t need your accompaniment. We’ll rest easy as long as you marry a good man and have a happy life.”

Manny put on a fatherly expression as he said, “Next Friday, there’ll be an auction in Satbury. Many people will be attending. I’ll bring you with me to take a look. It’ll be good if you can get your hands on something you want, but if you can’t, it’ll be good enough if you manage to get to know more of the other big shots.

“The O’Connors will definitely attend that auction, since it’s in Satbury. The eldest O’Connor boy, Louis O’Connor is still single. Though he is quite a few years older than you, older men tend to be more doting, and the O’Connors are a very powerful family.

Now, the O’Connors’ influence was growing stronger, and the O’Connor ladies had all married men from prominent families from various cities, while the boys had grown to be outstanding young men who could bear the burden of the entire family even without their older sisters’ support.

Manny had set his sights on the O’Connor family’s power.

Back then, he had not been able to become their son-in-law, but if he could get his daughter to become their daughter-in-law, he would benefit even more.

Louis O’Connor was the current head of the family. If his daughter managed to marry Louis, she would be the head missus of the family and have a great deal of influence.

She would be able to help her birth family.

“You didn’t manage to marry an O’Connor lady back then, and now you want me to marry into the same family?” Roxy could not help but remark snidely.

She had heard from her mother when she was young that the lady her father had actually wanted to marry was Tati O’Connor, and he had only married her mother because he had not been able to.