She's My Sleeping Pill

The pre-birthday celebration was a blast as if it was really the actual birthday party.

Copying Cayenne and Stefan's way of entertainment, they held some games that included the helpers' participation. There were many prizes, too.

The party lasted until 10:00 PM before the guests started bidding their farewell. Cayenne and her family were the last to leave the place after reassuring her father that she would visit them again.

The next day, when it was finally the actual birthday party, Ingrid and Reuben's family, including their in-laws, came to celebrate the special day with them.

Jay was the first grandchild from Ingrid's side, so it was expected that the celebration would be so grand. Her family even bought a lot of expensive gifts which her son couldn't use yet.

They were just throwing money without thinking if the gift would have any practical use for the baby. They weren't even jewelry or clothes that the child can wear.

For example, Ingrid's father bought a piece of land, about 2 hectares, for the child. He brought the title of the land with him which had Jay's name on it.

Of course, it was appreciated, but Ingrid and Reuben also felt a headache when accepting the gift.

Another gift that gave them a throbbing headache came from Ingrid's widowed auntie who never married again and never had a child. She bought Jay a small car - exactly the same as hers but just the little version of it.

Surely, this gift will be of no use to the child until he reached the age of four or five. They could understand that they were happy to welcome the first grandchild of their family, but their gifts were too much.

As the couple continued to welcome their guests, Ingrid's father suddenly spoke and angrily hit his silver cane on the floor.

"It's the first birthday of your child and his sister didn't even show up! What kind of daughter is she?"

Both Reuben and Ingrid immediately went to his side. They didn't expect that the old man would look for Cayenne during Jay's birthday.

Ingrid rubbed her father's back and replied softly, "Dad, Cayenne couldn't make it today because of her tight schedule and - "

"She can make time for others but not for her brother?! Is that what you are telling me?"

"What's wrong with you?" Ingrid couldn't help but ask. "When Reuben wanted her to visit, you forbade her from showing. Now that she promised not to bother us, you wanted her to show up. Then what?! Are you going to humiliate her? Can you afford to go against Stefan?

Because I'm telling you right now, that man won't forgive anyone who will hurt his wife, even if that person is a family. How much more when you do it? I can already imagine us living in the street."

"How... how dare you talk to me like that?"

"Because you don't know how to show respect, Dad! It's my son's birthday, but you are showing a fuss about Cayenne's absence."

"Don't say anything more. I know you don't want to hurt your father," Reuben said while patting his wife's shoulder. "Anyway, Cayenne came here yesterday and we had a small party together. It was more than enough for us," he added which calmed the old man down.

However, it was already too late. The commotion that Ingrid's father caused, someone recorded it and uploaded the video on social media.

When it comes to the social hierarchy, many people pay attention to wealthy families, waiting for them to slip up and make mistakes.

This time, Cayenne became the main dish for gossip again.

People were calling her a two-faced woman, a fake, and someone who put others before her family's well-being.

In the video, it could be seen that Ingrid's father was angrily questioning Reuben about Cayenne's character. The man was yelling about how Cayenne could make time for others but not for her little brother's first birthday.

The video was intentionally manipulating the netizens since the uploader did not include the latter part of the conversation when Reuben said that Cayenne came yesterday.

Cayenne was scolded harshly for not showing up. Some people were even saying that she was jealous of her own brother for being born rich.

Even her fans were a bit troubled by this news. It was known to them that Cayenne would always put her family first before anything else, but the news right now said otherwise.

At the same time, Cayenne was indeed a little bit busy with Julia. The two of them were buying things to bring to the orphanage the next day. She wasn't paying attention to her phone because she wanted to observe the woman next to her.

By the time she found out about the news, it already escalated a lot to the point that Stefan was posting a letter of attorney, addressing the people who said negative things about his wife without any proof.

"You don't have to go that far," Cayenne told Stefan over the phone on her way to the office. "It's obvious that they're manipulated."

"Hon, I understand that they could be manipulated, but don't they have brains at all? How could they just blindly follow someone? If I won't do anything right now, someone will do this again later on. This could at least serve as their warning."

"But, can you be a little lenient on them?"

"I'll try," Stefan said which was obviously a 'NO' to him. "Just do whatever you want to do. I'll take care of this matter."

Knowing that she won't be able to persuade him, Cayenne switched to another tactic. "Hubby?"

"Hn?"

"The video was taken during the birthday party, I'm sure that there's another story to it. Can you not retaliate against Ingrid's family before finding the truth?"

"Okay. That's the only thing that I can promise you."

"Hn. I don't mind. I'm already happy that you always have my back. Thank you."

Stefan talked to her a little bit more but his mind was already formulating a plan to make people pay for spouting nonsense against his wife.

He said it a lot of times, one can go against him and he wouldn't do anything, but when it comes to his wife, it will be impossible to appease him.