My Mirror Image

As soon as the banquet was over, Candice Renault left to pick up Alex Elysian.

When she opened the door to a room, she bumped into a young girl.

The girl looked clean and smart like an elf who could easily charm people.

Candice had seen the girl before. She was the new intern at the Secretary’s Office, Sonia Summers.

Sonia looked up and met Candice’s gaze. A hint of nervousness flashed across her face and she greeted timidly, “Candice.”

Candice was travel-weary, with frost still on her shoulders. She looked outstanding but she was not a fan of smiling, which exuded aloofness.

Candice hummed in acknowledgment and glanced inside the room before she returned her attention to Sonia. She asked coldly, “Where’s Alex?”

The name Alex made Sonia nervous.

“Mr. Elysian went out to buy a drink for me,” answered Sonia with a voice so hushed that it was drowned out by the room’s music as she glanced nervously at Candice.

Candice raised her brows and sized up Sonia carefully.

Having been with Alex for many years and yet she had never asked him for a favor.

Last month, Candice got into a car accident and hurt her left wrist. It was inconvenient for her to carry out her everyday tasks yet Alex did not even pour her a glass of water.

Sonia grew nervous under Candice’s scrutinizing gaze. She anxiously clutched the hem of her dress and spoke hesitantly, “Mr. Elysian should be back soon.”

Candice remained silent. She had been away in Noxville since last week, attending a series of meetings, and had only returned today to go to the Elysian family’s banquet.

family, so Candice had always acted as

the attention of people in the room but the dim environment

is only away for a while and you’re already waiting for him at the door? How

that loud and

She awkwardly explained, “Candice, they are joking. This is the first time Mr. Elysian brought me to a place like this, that’s why he’s taking good

wondered if Sonia was feigning

could be in the same room with Alex privately were all his friends in the

might be joking but she could tell that he was familiar with Sonia and had accepted her as

treated with such hospitality. She was simply left in the corner on her own.

with the tendency to look down on people. If not for Alex, they would

scoffed ironically. Despite being with Alex for years, she was not offered

to wait for Alex at the parking lot.

Alex approaching from the other end of the corridor.

and his sleeves were

club filled with deadly temptations and loud music, the man exuded a

appearance was the box of

watched as the box of milk was delivered to Sonia while he said, “What are you doing out here? You can just chill with them while

and her ears turned red as she muttered, “I wanted

a moment. He gave Sonia another milk candy and said,

as she

his attention to Candice and

that he was the one who had asked her to pick him up, the words

home first.”

…

the youth apartment on the northern side of the city, which was the direct opposite of the expensive residential area

business trip but still had to cross half of the city just to drop

her into her home, she knew what was going on in the man’s