Love in the Limelight

Chapter 21

The gardens of the Sunset Holiday Hotel were done up like a dreamy, romantic wonderland. You’d walk along the quiet lakeside path and see twinkling lights scattered about like shooting stars. From afar, the garden locked as if a galaxy of stars had spilled onto it.

The whole visual effect created a dreamlike atmosphere, making you feel like you’ve stepped into a fantasy world.

Lucinda was all dolled up, and her haughty demeanor resembled a peacock spreading its feathers. No matter who greeted her, shed respond with icy indifference.

Growing up, Lucinda was forever living in Astrid’s shadow

Astrid was lauded as a genius by the entire school. She was rarely in school, often leaving shortly after each semester began, only returning for the final exams. And yet, she always managed to top the class in those exams

Not only was she academically brilliant, but she was also stunningly beautiful and popular. Everyone would praise Astrid like she fortune

Wasn’t that just a polite way of saying she wasn’t pretty?

She

and romantic

is an idiot, that’s a

goddess, but when they saw Lucinda, they’d say she looked like she had

over and lightly tapped her shoulder, saying somewhat irritably, “Oh Lucinda, a man was trying to chat you up and you were so cold to him!” Lucinda rolled her eyes,

woman, said. If it weren’t for her meddling, the Fortner family

in the crowd suddenly shouted.

in her dreams countless times, Lucinda felt her heart nearly leap

of people had only seen Elio in the news, this was their

He’s even more charming in person than

on makeup? I want to have

as Ello walked past

look from him was enough to send

sight, Elio’s gaze turned even colder and more determined. His sharp, reminiscent of a grim reaper, gaze

out his phone, just in time to receive a message