Bumpkin's Rich Handsome Husband

“In that case, I don’t want the money anymore.” The difference is just tens of millions, anyway. 100

million is already too much in the first place. I can’t sell myself off just for a few ten million, right?

“The money has been transferred to your bank account, so it’s too late to go back on it now.” Matthew

let out a chuckle. “And besides, you promised at the hospital that we could get married in secret after

my three-month probation. What has been said can’t be unsaid.”

Veronica was rendered speechless. How could he be so shameless? She put her hand to her

forehead. She seriously thought that she had carelessly agreed to his proposal to get married secretly

because she had been bewitched by him. Would it be too late to go back on my word now? “Then let’s

wait until you pass the three-month probation. We’ve agreed on the rules; I don’t believe that you won’t

violate them.” Recalling how crazy he had been over the past few days, she felt that he would definitely

fail to restrain himself. What’s been said cannot be unsaid, huh? Once he touches me by then, getting

married in secret will be out of the question! Easy, Veronica, easy. I’ve got to calm down. How could I

sell myself after being in a relationship for just a day? I must’ve been out of my mind.

“It’s a deal.” Matthew hung up the phone confidently before driving to Spinfluence Group’s parking lot.

Due to the uproar caused by the incident about Matthew, Troy immediately ordered the company’s

public relations department to deal with the matter with all their might. Not only that, but he contacted

the few employees of the clothing store in the shopping mall, bribing them into denying the ‘juicy’

incident that had happened between Matthew and Veronica in the fitting room in front of the reporters.

As for the kiss between Matthew and the ‘man,’ the man who rarely posted anything on Twitter finally

posted the first tweet on his Twitter account. The tweet had no words, but it contained a photo—the

photo of him kissing Veronica with his arms around her waist when they stepped out of the clothing

store at the shopping mall. Since Veronica had disguised herself as a man, the photo showed him

leaning forward and gently kissing the man with silvery gray hair in a domineering fashion.

The photo caused a great stir on the internet as soon as it was posted online.

Ignoring the netizen’s comments, Matthew turned on his laptop and typed a continuous string of source

code on his keyboard. After hacking into the surveillance system, he called up all the surveillance

footage showing him and Veronica and saved them. After that, he designed a firewall and encrypted all

the surveillance footage in which they had appeared together.

Meanwhile, half an hour before this, Veronica was also in a state of anxiety because of what had

happened to Matthew. All the members of the Kings Family arrived at the hospital after that to keep

Elizabeth company, but she lay on her sickbed and pretended to sleep to avoid being bothered by her

sons and daughters-in-law.

Taking advantage of the situation, Veronica left the hospital and returned home. Using her laptop, she

hacked into her neighborhood’s surveillance system and recorded the surveillance footage of Matthew

driving her home, the surveillance footage of her taking the elevator and entering the apartment and

leaving home after wearing makeup, and the surveillance footage of them driving to the shopping mall

together. Besides that, she also recorded all the surveillance footage showing them in the shopping

mall’s parking lot. After that, she found the surveillance footage of her getting out of Matthew’s car and

going somewhere to remove makeup—as well as the surveillance videos of her with her makeup

removed—and saved all the videos.

Although Matthew had the capability to deal with this right now, he would inevitably draw criticism when

he went public about their marriage one day. By then, she could produce the surveillance footage as

evidence to silence everyone. If Matthew were to betray her and fall in love with someone else, these

pieces of evidence would only gather dust in her lifetime. She wasn’t a saint, so there was no way she

would help prove his innocence if he cheated on her.

As she thought of this, it suddenly occurred to her that those from the entertainment media would

definitely dig deep into the identity of the ‘man’ whom Matthew was kissing. It was very likely that they

would look for the surveillance footage immediately. Wouldn’t her relationship with Matthew be brought

to light by then?

She thought of encrypting those surveillance videos, but much to her surprise, just as she was ready to

call up the surveillance videos again, she found that these videos had been encrypted and were

unavailable. She was involuntarily perplexed. What’s going on?

The next instant, she couldn’t help but smile, knowing without thinking that it had to be Matthew who

was able to encrypt the videos so quickly. These videos couldn’t be deleted. If they did so, when

someone tried to call up these videos and couldn’t find them in the future, even if they produced the

videos to assert their innocence, people would say that these videos were faked. Therefore, the best

way to prevent others from deleting the videos was to set up a firewall. Still, she didn’t expect her and

Matthew to think the same thing, as if their minds were in sync.

Having dealt with the matters at hand, she immediately went back to the hospital to continue staying

with Elizabeth. However, as soon as she reached the door to Elizabeth’s ward, she heard a hubbub of

voices inside the ward.

“Mom, what do you mean? Don’t you think you’re too partial to Matthew?”

“It’ll be hard for you to assuage the public’s indignation by doing this.”

“Don’t you care about the fact that Matthew has disgraced our family?”

“Hmph! The way I see it, you’ve gone off your head because of your old age.”

Thump!

…

Just as Veronica stood at the door and listened to the conversation inside the ward, she suddenly

heard the sound of something being smashed to pieces from the inside. Startled, she immediately

pushed the door open and entered, only to see Roxanne Barnes, the wife of Nicholas Kings, the fifth

son of the Kings Family. Smashing the glass on the table to the ground, she pointed at Elizabeth,

saying, “If you don’t do anything about this today, then don’t blame us for defying you in the future!”

Being tall and plump, she spoke in a loud voice, and the words she said were particularly unpleasant to

hear.

When those people standing in the ward saw Roxanne exploding with rage, not only did they not stop

her, but they even added fuel to the flames.

“That’s right! What Roxanne said makes sense.”

“Mom, you’ve got to give us an explanation for what happened today. Even if you’re partial to Matthew,

you have to do so with propriety.”

“Exactly! When did you ever care so much about us? Are we far inferior to Matthew as your sons or

what?”

“Yeah, that’s right!”

…

These people kept going on at Elizabeth because of this. However, she merely leaned back against the

head of the bed and hung her head without saying a word.

At that very moment, Veronica’s heart suddenly twinged. She felt very sorry for the aged Elizabeth.