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 own

mother had always been sensible and reasonable. Thus, she never suspected that Sue would lie about

the phone call and turned to Cecilia, her face turning cold. “What’s with that café?

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

expressed her opinion,

quick to

world, they were clearly a perfect

her hands. She dialed the number of the boss of the café, whom she previously contacted to

date? He’s definitely not the man I introduced! What exactly went wrong with

Cecilia was dumbfounded.

in society because many well-known lecturers and professors in

she wasn’t a real teacher, she spoke with the

she was a fully-grown adult. She had a good time chatting with Larry, and didn’t want things to end this

so, she didn’t interrupt Sue. Otherwise, she would be

either Sue or Cecilia, someone much more impolite was about

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