Riches in Disguise

Chapter 377

"It's fine. I get scolded even more at school. I'm used to it. Charlotte scolds me much worse than they do," I said, smiling. I made a light joke to ease Gabrielle's guilt.

But unexpectedly, Charlotte's tears started flowing immediately. "William, I've apologized to you so many times. Why won't you forgive me?"

"Wait. Why are you crying?"

Now, I was the one in a panic. I only stated the truth. I wasn't scolding her or yelling. Why would she cry?

Gabrielle quickly handed Charlotte a tissue, asking with curiosity, "Charlotte, why did you scold William?"

Charlotte couldn't answer. She simply wiped her tears away. She was too

embarrassed to explain.

There was no reason for her to scold me other than that she looked down on me. It was that simple.

Gabrielle stopped asking when Charlotte didn't respond.

She smiled at me. "Let's just forget about the past. From now on, the three of us will be good friends, okay?"

I looked at her. "I really do want to be friends with you."

surface, she might seem delicate, but she was very brave. She ran away from home to stand up to her family and even lived in a budget apartment to save

reminded me of

she wasn't as naive and sweet as Juliette, nor did she have the

rather

hadn't changed her snobbish ways; she was only nice to me now because she suspected my identity, not because she actually

for Charlotte to sit on my

really want to be friends

sentence included Charlotte. To show

"Thank you!"

lightly and then took a selfie of the three of us. immediately posted

velké

"The Brotherhood

you post

why I had to post it, too. I rarely posted anything

I hesitated, Charlotte pulled out her phone. Imitating Gabrielle,

so I had

out my phone and posted

as I posted it,