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.”

up. Aurelia followed suit and went to pay the

they left the restaurant,

umbrella and angled it slightly toward Leslie. However, he was too tall, and she had

his head bumped into the top of the umbrella. He

“I’ll hold it.”

Aurelia said, looking up

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

glow. Her lustrous black hair, fair skin, and gentle smile all blended together into a captivating

he was staring

himself and

looked at their shadows on the ground, she noticed that the umbrella was consistently tilted

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

had rained, Seth would offer to pick her up. But by the time they reached

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would complain incessantly about getting a few

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

course,” she had

love for the first time, a person would tend to magnify the other person’s virtues and overlook the

heavy rain was an act of love. But she had ignored the fact that the umbrella had

of pastries wafted over

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

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