That night, Lindy immediately pulled Sonnet aside. "So did you explain everything to that Johnson fella today?"Sonnet recounted her conversation with Johnson today. Lindy scoffed. "Regular friends? Do you really buy that? He's obviously an experienced playboy. He was so calm, which must mean he's used to anything girls say!"Sonnet's eyes widened. "What do you mean?""Men like him always use this strategy. They say they'll start as friends, but the truth is they haven't given up on you! Just wait, I bet he'll keep trying to woo you.""But I even told him about my husband…""And of course he'll say he doesn't mind. How else can he be your friend?"Sonnet shook her head. "I guess I'll have to tell him we can't be friends either, then."However, Lindy patted her shoulder. "Sonnet, you're way too inexperienced in these things. Let me tell you, just be regular friends with him if that's what he wants. After that, keep mentioning your husband to him and reminiscing about your romanti
Jaybie glanced at his mother and then went to open the door. Inside the house, Lil Oriole was standing on the table and eating sunflower seeds. Every time it ate a seed, it would say, "Dear wifey!" Johnson Yates sat next to it, cracking seeds for it. "Uncle Johnson!" Jaybie called out and ran inside, pulling Lil Oriole into his arms."Eat, eat, eat!" Lil Oriole flapped its wings, struggling as it cried out. Jaybie ignored Lil Oriole and stared at Johnson. "Uncle Johnson, how do you know our parrot likes sunflower seeds?"Maxwell was about to scratch his nose instinctively, but he thought that his habit might expose his identity, so he pushed up his black-rimmed glasses instead. "I don't know that, I just saw parrots eating sunflower seeds before. I had some at home, so I thought I'd give it a try."Jaybie did not say anything. He just looked at Maxwell with his sharp gaze.Maxwell pretended to widen his eyes in understanding. "Oops, sorry. This parrot flew to my door just now
There was another round of spring showers the next morning.After a hurried breakfast, Sonnet brought the children downstairs and saw that the rain had gotten heavier. She hesitated for a bit. Although the children were both wearing raincoats and boots, they would still get wet in this downpour.Lune was fine, but Jaybie's body was weak…Beep beep!The Bentley slowly pulled up to the door, and Johnson wound down his window. "Get inside. I'll send the kids to school.""It's fine. They—""It's clearly not fine. The rain is really heavy, and they'll get drenched. Do you want to catch a cold in this chilly spring weather?" Maxwell interrupted her.When he woke up that morning and saw how heavy the rain was, he hurriedly came downstairs to pick up the kids. Jaybie's health came first, so Sonnet finally took him up on his offer. She thanked him and put the kids into his car. Jaybie's nails dug into his palm. He looked at Johnson through the rearview mirror and said, "I was reall
Laurel looked up and smiled at her. "That's right. This show is amazing."Since they were talking about her idol's drama series, Laurel got excited. "Watch it with me, Sonnet. I swear, it's really good!""I saw some of it. It's pretty high-quality, and the lead actor is great!""I know, right? My Macky is getting rave reviews for his acting. He's gonna make it big this time!"My Macky…Sonnet felt goosebumps all over. Were all fans so passionate about their idols these days?"So is this series a commercial success?" She was more concerned about that. "I wouldn't say that." Laurel's expression turned solemn.Sonnet was a little disappointed. Was it not a success? The next second, though, Laurel's expression did a one-eighty and she said loudly, "It's a freaking break-out hit! It's way more than a 'commercial success'!"Laurel grabbed her arm and shook it, looking as happy as though she had hit the jackpot. “I told you, right? I said my Macky would make it big. He’ll get hit
Two days after that, Sonnet went to the washroom between classes. When she came back, she saw Laurel surrounded by a bunch of eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds at the back of the class.She hurriedly walked over to break up the fight, but Maggie stopped her.“It’s all about their fandom wars, so stay out of it. You wouldn’t want to get hurt!” Maggie said sarcastically.Sonnet knew that Maggie did not like Laurel’s mindless idolization, but Laurel was still their colleague and classmate. Besides, her idol was Sonnet’s childhood friend. No matter how Sonnet looked at it, she thought she should help Laurel.“Let’s at least see what’s going on. If anything happens to Laurel, wouldn’t it be embarrassing for all of us?” she told Maggie.Only then did Maggie let her go reluctantly. “Fine, you go ahead and poke your nose into their business. I don’t care, so leave me out of it. I’m here to study, not worship some idol.”“It shouldn’t be anything major. Don’t worry,” Sonnet comforted her w
“Enough!” Sonnet barked. “It’s just an autograph, isn’t it? I don’t have one now, but I can get one whenever you want. I’ll get you one and show you!”The girls scoffed at her. “Lies! Macky is super low-profile, so his autographs are really rare. How can you get your hands on one? You can just bring a fake and say it’s real!”“So what do you want me to do?”“I guess we’d believe you if you personally ask him to show his autograph on Weibo!” one of the girls said, looking at Sonnet cockily.“Yeah, that’s right! Macky always keeps a low profile. If you cab get him to post an autograph on Weibo, we’ll believe you. And then we’ll all apologize to you! But what if you can’t do it?” another girl added.“Then I’ll apologize to you!”“On your knees!”“Fine, I’ll get on my knees and apologize!” Sonnet replied without hesitation.She was not usually the sort of person to do something like this, but for some reason, she let herself get carried away today.When she thought about it, she r
Sonnet recognized him at a glance.She looked at Laurel. “You should go ahead, Laurel. My friend is here to meet me.”Laurel looked at that man suspiciously for a bit, but then she nodded and left without asking more.Sonnet approached the man and grinned at him. “How did you know I’d be here?”“Lindy told me. I was in the area, so I came to visit you. Wanna grab lunch together?” Lucas asked.Sonnet blinked. “But you’re a superstar now. Aren’t you worried about the paparazzi?”“They can follow me if they like. Can’t an actor have a friend? So are you up for it?”“Sure!” Sonnet replied without hesitation. It was only after she agreed that she remembered she had told Johnson she would go home with him.After a bit of musing, she decided to go for lunch with her childhood friend instead. After all, Lucas rarely had time to come back, and it had been a long time since she last had a meal with him.She walked out of the university with Lucas, texting Johnson at the same time. [Sorr
"I'll take you somewhere else," Maxwell said sternly.Maggie looked at his cold side profile, and her heart raced in her chest. So Mr. Yates really did have an overbearing CEO side to him, after all! She loved it!Maxwell was wholly oblivious to her thoughts. He just kept following the MPV up ahead.The car drove for about ten minutes before it stopped outside a homey restaurant. Sonnet and that man got out of the car and entered the restaurant. Maxwell hurriedly stopped his car there too."So you want to eat here? This restaurant is pretty famous too!" Maggie said hastily to show him that she knew her stuff too.Maxwell got out of the car, and Maggie quickly followed behind him. As soon as the two of them went inside, a waiter greeted them. Maxwell swept his gaze across the hall and could not see Sonnet anywhere, so he guessed that they had gone into a private room.He really wanted to ask the waiter which room the two of them had gone into, but that would be too obvious. He