Chapter 151

Leslie’s gaze sharpened. He wondered if his mother had told Aurelia about his true identity.

“What else could I be?” he asked coldly.

Aurelia didn’t sense anything odd. After all, Leslie had always been cold and distant.

“Maybe a businessman. You’re just as cunning as one,” Aurelia replied with an awkward laugh. “A cunning businessman, huh?”

Leslie put down his cup and wiped his hands.

Aurelia chuckled but eventually quieted down, realizing that it had been a bad joke. “Sorry.”

“If I’m a cunning businessman, what does that make you? A cunning businessman’s wife?” he asked.

Silence fell over them instantly. They were both rendered speechless as their conversation suddenly shifted to the topic of “wife”.

Aurelia was unsure of how to react to this.

Leslie wiped his mouth and changed the subject. “I’m done eating. It’s settled then. You don’t have to worry about anything. Just be yourself on Friday.”

Aurelia nodded. “Thank you. Sorry for troubling you.”

Aurelia followed suit and

left the restaurant, the

it slightly toward Leslie. However, he was too tall, and

the top of the umbrella. He sighed and stopped, then took the umbrella

“I’ll hold it.”

Aurelia said, looking up at

he saw her smile, Leslie’s grip around the umbrella’s

makeover, Aurelia seemed to radiate a soft glow. Her lustrous black hair, fair skin,

realized that he was staring at

composed himself and

them, when Aurelia looked at their shadows on the ground,

this detail. Then, she was reminded of the three years she had

would offer to pick her up. But by the time they reached the subway, her shoulder would

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complain incessantly about getting a few raindrops

if I hadn’t come to pick you up. I’m doing this because I love you so much. You should treat me better in

course,” she had

first time, a person would tend to magnify the

had thought that Seth coming to pick her up in the heavy rain was an act of love. But she had ignored the fact that the umbrella had never once tilted her

of pastries wafted over as she was lost

looked in the direction the smell was coming from, just to see people queuing up to buy

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