This stumped Aurelia.

“Why… He doesn’t like it?”

“No!” Cordelia hurried to say, “I’m just curious. He’s my cousin and an award-winning actor with many fans in Centrolis. Why is he an uncle when it comes to you?”

Aurelia looked down slightly with a blush.

She gripped the glass and rubbed it with her finger anxiously, but the corners of her lips were discreetly ticking upward.

Why was he called an uncle? It was because Neil was a man who was mature, stable, and had a cold hint in her first impression, just like… the merciless assassins in mystery novels.

Back then, she genuinely thought he was an uncle she could not approach.

Later, the term of address became her special way of addressing him. She called everyone else by their names. It was only different when it came to him.

“Uncle” put distance between them and avoided suspicions from others.

The feeling was strange. She missed him when she did not see him but was afraid when she did see him, worried that others would see through her, so “uncle” was a way she carefully guarded her meek pride.

Aurelia chuckled.

Cordelia held her hand. She had long seen through everything.

“Oh, yeah.” Cordelia changed the topic. “Did you realize that our names are similar?”

“Huh?” Aurelia jolted.

“There’s a ‘lia’ in both our names. It means gentle!”

speak the language but can’t spell, so I don’t know how your name is

name.” Cordelia pulled a piece of

“Cordelia…”

Neil means victory or champion. You both are even

bit her lips and slipped

then, and the maid went to open

but heard a

This is my cousin’s home. I’m here to see

Hamerton has said

you have none! Do you

her back and snickered when she saw it was Ava. “Oh, it’s you, Ava. What can I help you

going to speak when Aurelia, who was

the expert who had changed all the holes in the dresses to embroidered patterns in the blink of

her

Cordelia!” Ava acted. “I’m here to

what she

excellent quality tonics, and the box of vitamins

“Cordelia, these are just a

smirked. There was no free lunch

chased Hannah out in front of the whole board of directors. It was a surprise that

honest,” Cordelia said flatly. “You know me, I don’t like

back to

“Ava, is this all Aunt Hannah’s fault? I think it’s more like she’s the scapegoat for

“You—”

truth? Only you’d do something so stupid

as she sucked in a cold

for you, but you wouldn’t do it without her silent approval.” Cordelia was clear about it. “Go back, Ava. It’s well within reason

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