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Last night was a dream?

For a long time, the two of them just stood in the same spot, with Zoren hugging her from behind. He kept his head rested on her shoulder while Penny kept her gaze down. The tears in her eyes eventually dried up, replaced by softness and a small smile on her face. "How did you know?" Her quiet voice broke the peaceful silence. "You didn't know until now, so...

how?"

His mouth curled up. "How did you know I didn't know until now?"

Her brows rose while he chuckled. Lifting his head, he rested his chin on her shoulder.

"It's not that I didn't have a hunch... or hunch is the right word for it," he clarified calmly. "I just... I just can't stop comparing you to the Penny I know."

His smile widened. "When you told me we're married, the first thing that came to my mind was... you sound like Penny."

"Huh?"

"Penny is also direct and wouldn't beat around the bush. You also have the same eye color. And when I thought of it, you also smelled like toast."

"I don't smell toast."

"Sometimes, you do," he pointed out, recalling those times Penny would come to meet him with a piece of toast stuck in her mouth. It was as though someone from her home ate toast not just for breakfast. O

"You reminded me of her... so much so I am torn," he confessed. "Yet, despite all the hints and tests, you were so good at fooling me that instead of being sure, I was even more confused. So, I wanted to get to know you as you and not because you reminded me of someone else."

Penny pressed her lips together. "I can't approach you so carelessly, can I?"

"Since when did you know?" he asked.

"Chunchun's birthday. Thursday."

""You saw her?"

""Mhm. Did you buy her lie?"

"I wanted to."

"How did you find out?"

Zoren smiled. "Renny."

"Renny?" She looked back at him, curious. "What about him?"

called him Renny," he said. "You never knew

parted before

them stared at each other with smiles, his arms still

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to realize he had never let her

tapping his arm gently. "Renren, aren't you holding me for

"No."

"Huh?"

a long time. Holding you for ten

thinking of a good rebuttal, and he blinked as if he was thinking of another good

who left to get treatment?" she brought up. "So technically, I was the

can't rest your chin on my shoulder if we

not what she

Penny went completely

blurted out. "As far as I recall, we're friends, not sweethearts

until his eyes were squinting. "You're

partially open. More than the butterflies filling her stomach since some time ago, there was one thing she realized with such urgency. "I need to relearn debate," she blurted

laughed, tightening his embrace around her. His lean cheek squished a bit on her shoulder, finding it too comfortable

at him, only to see his

her heart melted.

feel like jumping and crying because my heart feels so full, but at the same time, that would be wasting time, right?" "How is that wasting time?" she murmured.

"Are you dense?"

stupid, Zoren. I know you're trying to flirt with me, but I'm not

"What are you in the

several seconds, she didn't answer and just

As he did so, she couldn't help but

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But before she

"Sir!"

"Renny-"

"Miss Penny-!"

only to see a black figure leaping toward her. Before she knew

it didn't hurt much. Her slight shock, however, didn't last long at the adorable panther

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