The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 465 Locke Award

Susan Shelby returned to the Wrights and made her way to the room that used to belong to Willa Doyle for some unknown reason.

She struggled with mixed emotions.

Frankly, had it not been for this incident, she could have become really good friends with Willa.

Susan’s gaze swept across the room and discovered a book placed on the table.

It was a book titled Jane Eyre.

She walked over and flipped open the book to take a look and found a row of letters written on the title page.

Susan’s pupils constricted abruptly.

The sentence contained some kind of hidden meaning.

'If this book is misplaced, please return it t o Willa Doyle of class one, senior year, Sarem Girls' High School. Contact number: * ***. Thank you.'

Did Julian Shaw not say that Willa was his high school classmate?

Girls' high school?

Susan brought up the internet browser shakily and typed in Sarem Girls' High School for a search right away.

Susan screened through the graduate students from each year one by one.

At last, she found Willa’s name for one of the years. She could even see the graduation photo of her entire class on the website. The person smiling brilliantly was precisely Willa.

Thunder struck Susan’s heart with a loud rumble.

She sat there in a daze.

Julian lied to her! Willa was not some high school classmate of his at all.

In order to deceive her, he had even forged the graduation certificate, graduation photo, and even his high school website.

He painstakingly did so much just to deceive her surprisingly.

Susan's hand holding the mouse was shaking.

Why? Why did he do that?

Julian spent a night with Willa and claimed that nothing happened so she trusted him.

He claimed that Willa was his high school classmate so she believed him as well.

Yet, Susan felt that she was really very foolish now. In the end, she was deceived over and over again in exchange for her trust.

The corners of Susan’s lips curled into an incomparably bitter smile.

Even though Willa had already left, it would change the truth that Julian deceived her for even the slightest bit.

Susan kept the book then left Willa's room with mixed emotions.

She returned to her room and sat on the chair in a daze for a very long time.

It felt as if she was thinking about nothing yet everything at the same time. Her entire person was caught in a muddled state.

Just as her mind was blank, all of a sudden, the QQ instant messaging software on her computer gave a crisp notification sound.

Susan clicked to open the message like a robot.

Mr. Reed was the sender.

Susan had always respected Mr. Reed very much. She could not help perking up her spirits upon receiving Mr. Reed's message and began reading in all apparent seriousness.

'Susie, are you free in the next two weeks?’ asked Mr. Reed right away.

'I'm free,' replied Susan hastily.

‘Then why haven't you signed up for the Locke Award International Design Competition?' asked Mr. Reed.

'Locke Award?' Susan could not help feeling stunned for a moment.

The Locke Award International Design Competition was the grandest event in the designer profession. If a person was awarded gold in the Locke Award, the person could basically become the most supreme and powerful designer in the world immediately.

The competition was held in America and due to some host country issues, no one from Canada managed to become champion up to now.

'Have you forgotten?’

With only three words, Susan could already imagine Mr. Reed's frowning look in her mind.

She could not help panicking. 'I'm sorry, teacher. Something happened in my family during this period of time. I-I was too distracted to take notice of this.’

Mr. Reed was silent for a moment before he replied, 'Susie, you are my youngest and also the most intelligent apprentice ever. You are extraordinarily talented and so outstanding such that even a few of your senior apprentices may not necessarily be better than you either. However, you’re always lacking in something compared to them in your design. Do you know why?'

'Why?' Susan could not help asking.

Design had always been her pursuit. Even though she had not worked for the past few years, she did not stop her progress in design all along!

She wanted to put in the effort and be the best in this profession.

'It's because you still haven’t strived hard enough and you're not fully invested!' Mr. Reed replied without the slightest hesitation. 'In order to be the best in our profession, one will certainly need to accumulate a large amount of experience. Look at yourself for the past few years-what have you done? Perhaps many people will feel that it’s very normal behavior for a woman to give up her career and be fully engaged with her family, let alone the Shaws to be such a powerful family. If it’s another woman, I wouldn't comment any further. However, if it's you Susan... I’d bear the risk of being hated by you to say this. Are you really going to let your talent go to waste? Are you really going to watch helplessly as more and more people advance farther than you while you're just going to pace around on the same spot?'

Mr. Reed very seldom spoke so much that Susan's body tensed up involuntarily.

She could read Mr. Reed's heartache from his remark.

She wanted to say that she had been working hard constantly and she had never given up on her pursuit in design all along.

Yet, she recalled how her senior apprentices would sacrifice sleep and eat i n search of improvement so she could not bring herself to refute that statement anyhow.

She felt that she had already put in enough effort yet she forgot that many people whose talents surpassed her were working harder than her.

Over the years, it was true that she lost her strength to strive because of her family.

'It's the last day to sign up for the Locke Award today. You can make the decision if you want to sign up or not." Upon saying that, Mr. Reed’s profile dimmed.

Susan sat on the chair for a very long time. Soon afterward, the corners of her lips cracked into a faint smile.

At this very moment, she suddenly realized that she missed out on quite a number of scenes that were supposed to belong to her over the years.

Love and relationship. Could it be that these were all that her life was?

What was stopping her, Susan Shelby, from ascending to an even higher platform to display herself!

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A glint glimmered in Susan's eyes. She brought up the registration page immediately and signed up.

On the other side, Mr. Reed was constantly refreshing the registration page. He could not help smiling in gratitude upon seeing Susan's name appearing on the page.

Out of his numerous apprentices, he valued Susan the most in truth. The child was an inherent genius.

Over the years, she had albeit settled down into quietness. Mr. Reed believed that there would be a place for her in the future of the international design profession if she could pull herself together.

The Locke Award would begin officially one week after registration.

In order to understand the environment better and be prepared for the competition, Susan made the decision to head to the States in advance.

In her opinion, it was not difficult for her to pass the preliminary round using the internet. The quarterfinals and finals would be held live at the location. It would b e good for her to familiarize herself with the location in advance.

The next day, Susan packed up and headed to America right away.

There was no telling if she was doing that t o familiarize herself with the location or to avoid someone she was unwilling to think about and meet.