Chapter 23

“Luna, Lili’s timid and shy, so you’ve got to treat her well. Don’t disappoint me.”

I wouldn’t disappoint him, but he had really disappointed me.

We’d known each other for 19 years, and I was sure he knew very well what kind of person I was. But he was giving me an indirect warning in front of everyone as if I was some kind of sly, spiteful person.

I wasn’t that kind of person, but I was really disappointed.

I said, “Okay.”

Uncle Austin and Aunt Mel probably knew about Lilac’s family and were very unhappy about it. When

dinner started, they kept plying me with food while ignoring Lilac completely.

Lilac shrank back helplessly in her seat while Felix continuously comforted her in a low voice.

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My parents couldn’t say much as this was the White family’s affairs. As for me. I focused intently on

eating and enjoyed the food thoroughly like the connoisseur I was.

This was the most boring dinner I had ever eaten.

When I had had my fill, I put down my cutleries and went out on the balcony for a breath of fresh air.

see them being so in love, so the only thing I

I hid myself there so that

to find me.

after, light but hurried footsteps stopped outside the balcony. I didn’t want to be discovered,

inched inward soundlessly.

is

graduate, you need to undergo security

government.

that family background of hers? She can’t

or her own qualifications. Why must

startled

Aunt Mel

leave, as this was the White

an

like me to know

doing it intentionally,

balcony was a dead end. I had no way to leave unless I

Felix

was obviously head over heels for Lilac. He began recklessly arguing

what I could see in my position, Lilac was standing beside them, her hands clasped together helplessly as she watched them.

in her eyes, and it made her look particularly

an idiot, I

wrong had she committed? What did her parents‘ problems have to do with her? She was just a girl who had

for what had happened between Felix and I, it was really nothing to do with the

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