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 her

always been sensible and reasonable. Thus, she never suspected that Sue would

call and turned to Cecilia, her face turning cold. “What’s with that café? They have such good reviews, but they managed to mess up

be honest, she didn’t like the man in the Cecilia’s photo. He looked so

expressed her opinion,

too quick to

clearly a perfect match. How could her mother judge him as being petty simply

Sue said with a wave of her hands. She dialed the number of the boss of the café, whom she previously contacted to register Cecilia for the

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

Cecilia was dumbfounded.

she was highly respected in society because many well-known lecturers and professors in major universities came from the Chimmery and

she spoke with the air of

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

Sue. Otherwise,

someone much more

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