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

they left the restaurant, the

angled it slightly toward Leslie. However, he was too tall, and she had to stand on tiptoes

bumped into the top of the umbrella. He sighed and stopped, then

“I’ll hold it.”

you,” Aurelia said, looking up at him with

smile, Leslie’s grip around the

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

realized that he

himself

quite some distance between them, when Aurelia looked at their shadows on the ground, she noticed that the umbrella was

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

her up. But by the time they reached the subway, her

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incessantly about getting a few raindrops on

you up. I’m doing this because I love you so much. You should

she

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

to pick her up in the heavy rain was an act of love. But she had

delicious scent of pastries wafted over as she was lost in

and looked in the direction the smell was coming

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