Julian's Stand in Wife

He looked like a miser through and through.

Sue didn’t like him one bit.

“He is definitely not my ex-student!” she cried, aghast.

To make things clear, Sue called her ex-student to ask about his impression of Cecilia.

To her surprise…

“My apologies, Mrs. Chimmery. I didn’t manage to make it to the blind date because I was caught up with something. I’m still stuck in an academic conference right now. I wanted to call you after it ended, but I didn’t expect…”

Sue knew about the academic conference he was talking about. It was an international meeting that only people of relative academic accomplishments could attend.

No one could decide how long the meeting went on for. Everyone at the meeting worked in the same industry, and that was likely the reason that the meeting dragged on longer than expected.

“It’s not your fault,” Sue said understandingly. She didn’t tell him about Cecilia going for the blind date today, and hung up after some small talk.

Sue had always been magnanimous in most things, except when it concerned Noel.

of things and let her daughter choose

reasonable. Thus, she never suspected

her face turning cold. “What’s with that café? They have such good reviews, but they

Cecilia’s photo. He looked so petty, and had a dark, heavy

Sue expressed her opinion,

so too quick to judge!” she

their opinions and perspective of the world, they were clearly

number of the boss of the café, whom she previously contacted to

mother. I’d like to ask, who exactly is my daughter’s blind date? He’s definitely not the man

Cecilia was dumbfounded.

was highly respected in society because many well-known

real teacher, she spoke with the

her mother was acting in her best interests, but she was a fully-grown adult. She had a

she didn’t interrupt Sue. Otherwise, she would

Sue or Cecilia, someone much more impolite was about to

phone on loudspeaker mode. Cecilia could hear her mother’s conversation with