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..."

suddenly realizing she had

her. "You seem to know quite a bit

team had conducted thorough research and concluded that this field held great potential. However, most people remained skeptical, dismissing it as an unreliable and emerging sector. He

two of them eventually arrived at Noelle's

the shoe cabinet and chuckled. "I just realized I don't have any

there was still

It was sparsely decorated, but

the pink slippers he was wearing and couldn't

no one will see

He wasn't

he instinctively said, "Let's just

a pretty good cook. Since we're settling in, I don't mind making dinner. I'm not trying to please you, but let me host you," Noelle

had moved into

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

over and started

for two wasn't difficult, and Noelle quickly

took a photo

planned to share on