No longer a pushover

Chapter 213

At times, what one feared most was what came to pass. When Cedric saw the middle-aged man suddenly appear, he felt a surge of anger. Instead, he kept his composure, nodded briefly, and quickly led Noelle out of the restaurant.

After walking a few steps, Noelle glanced back and noticed the middle-aged man was already gone.

She turned to Cedric in confusion. "Who's that man?"

"I don't know him," Cedric replied.

"He called you Mr. Greene," Noelle said, eyeing him suspiciously.

Cedric's heart skipped a beat. How should he explain this?

After a moment, Noelle seemed to have an epiphany. "Perhaps he's someone Maple Enterprise used to work with. Since the investment summit, a lot of companies have been reaching out to us for collaboration."

Noelle assumed the man had come to discuss a partnership with Cedric.

Cedric realized she misunderstood it, but he didn't correct her. Instead, he played along. "The project does have a good future."

"It's more than good-it's incredibly promising! Once it's applied to autonomous vehicles and becomes widespread..."

she had let something

seem to know quite a bit about this

this field held great potential. However, most people remained skeptical, dismissing it as an unreliable and emerging sector. He hadn't expected Noelle to possess

two of them eventually arrived at

"I just realized I don't have any shoes for you. Would you mind wearing mine

moved in, and there was still a

at the empty room. It was sparsely decorated,

was wearing and

but at least no one will see you

her. He wasn't bothered

Noelle began pulling ingredients from the fridge, he instinctively said, "Let's just order

don't mind making dinner. I'm not trying to please you, but let me host you,"

had moved

Cedric had told her not to worry about trying to impress anyone. Since then, they'd always had meals prepared by a

walked over and started helping with the

difficult, and Noelle quickly prepared three different dishes and a soup.

a photo of

planned to