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!”

smiled embarrassedly. “I can speak the language but can’t spell, so I don’t know how your

a

“Cordelia…”

Cordelia grinned. “Aurelia means the golden one, and Neil means victory or

flushed red instantly. She bit her

open the door, but no one came in after

but heard

is my cousin’s

Hamerton has said that you’re not allowed

authority when you have

and snickered when she saw it was Ava. “Oh, it’s you,

was going to speak when Aurelia, who was beside

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

nails piercing her palms, and her

Ava acted. “I’m here to

scanned what she had brought

tonics, and the box of vitamins was a rare blend with an even higher

just a token. They’re for you. Please accept

smirked. There was no

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

flatly. “You know me, I don’t like

Then I’ll go on.” Ava paused. “Cordelia, please ask Zephyr for a favor and let my mom go back to the board of directors! She knows she’s wrong and

Cordelia scoffed. “Ava, is this all Aunt Hannah’s fault? I think it’s more like

“You—”

Only you’d do something so stupid as to let others catch you so

eyes widened as she sucked in a cold

the blame for you, but you wouldn’t do it without her silent approval.” Cordelia was clear about

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