How could Winson possibly let her go just like that?The angrier Gwen got, the tighter his grip became. "Come on, Gwen. It's not like you have anything else to do today anyway, so why don't you join me for the rest of the art show? Come on, we've known each other for ages now. Are you seriously going to do this to me?"Gwen sneered as she cast him a cold look. "Yes, we've known each other for ages, and in fact, we used to be close back in high school, but that isn't a reason for you to stop me from leaving!"After all, they had lost touch for so long that in Gwen's opinion, they were more akin to acquaintances instead of friends at this point.The only reason she agreed to come out with him was because she still remembered him from their high school days. If she had failed to recognize him, he would be a stranger to her.What was the point of watching an art show with someone she barely knew?At the thought of this, Gwen bit her lip and grew even more determined to leave without
"Yes." The man dressed in black paused for a moment when he heard the delight in her voice, then glanced at her and nodded. "Are you hurt?""No." Gwen shook her head. "How about you?"She scrutinized his right arm, which was wrapped with gauze, and furrowed her eyebrows. "Are you okay?""I'm okay." The man turned to glance at Winson, whose wrist he was holding. "How did you claim that you know her?"At this point, Winson was in so much pain that his entire face had turned pale, and he could not utter a single word apart from vague whimpers of pain."He claimed to be this lady's boyfriend," one of the passersby piped up. "We thought he was harassing her, but he claimed to be her boyfriend…and this lady also referred to him by his name, so we assumed that they knew each other."The other passersby agreed. "Yes, we thought something fishy was going on, and we were wondering whether he was telling the truth… After all, you never know what goes on in other people's lives.""Yes, I th
Still holding onto his hand, Gwen led the man in black out of the art gallery and all the way back to the street where she lived.Finally, they came to a halt as Gwen slumped against the wall of a house, panting. The man behind her, on the other hand, was totally unfazed.He curled his lips into a smile as he glanced at her. "We ran almost five blocks just now. I didn't know you had such good stamina."The man's melodic voice and his teasing tone made Gwen freeze momentarily. For a split second, she could not help thinking that…the man before her was Luke.Not only that, but she had the sudden urge to remove his mask and see if it was him, but she stopped herself from doing so.This man could not possibly be Luke—Luke was dead.Even if Luke's subconscious remained in Steven's body, Steven would never come all the way here.The man before her was just a bodyguard that Joshua hired to protect her, and the reason he was wearing a mask was that he felt conscious of his looks after s
The man's voice was solemn.Gwen bit her lip and could not help feeling guilty for her insensitivity again. The somberness in his tone made her realize that she had overstepped her boundaries again.She bit her lip and turned to look at him.She had turned around because she thought it would be more earnest to apologize to him face to face, but to her surprise, when he saw her turn, the man extended his hands toward his ears in preparation to remove his mask."Wait!" Gwen furrowed her eyebrows and stopped him. "Don't take off your mask…"His hands stiffened. He frowned, then asked in a low voice, "Why not?"He had already prepared for this moment. After all, there was no point continuing to meet each other like this, and he thought he might as well reveal his identity to Gwen once and for all.He never once thought that Gwen would change her mind at the last minute."I…" Gwen quickly turned around and avoided his gaze. "Joshua told me about your situation."The man's eyebrows
Gwen chuckled after reading the message Luna sent.[Why do I recall you being quite close with Winson when we were in high school? Why do you hate him so much now? Did you stay in contact with him after we graduated?]Luna was stunned when she read the message from her phone.If Gwen did not remind her, she would have genuinely forgotten she was rather close with Winson when they were in high school.At that time, they were young and naive. They did not bother about love or romance between the opposite sides. As always, Luna was a friendly person that got along with most of her classmates in high school.After they graduated, she went to stay in Banyan City because she was with Joshua. Afterward, she never contacted her high school classmates.For a minute there, she had a hard time thinking how to answer Gwen's question when Gwen suddenly asked why she thought Winson was a bad person. Obviously, she could not reveal to Gwen it was Joshua who asked her to pass the message.Think
"Yay!" Nellie clapped gleefully. "Nigel is going to do his things again! He's super amazing!""Oh, and I'm not?" Neil's lips thinned into a line as he flicked Nellie's forehead.He did not exert strength into it, yet the dramatic Nellie began to weep, a tear leaking out of one eye, as her doe-like eyes reddened. "Neil hit me! How could you do that?"Neil pursed his lips and placed a slice of cake in front of Nellie.He woke up early in the morning to bake the cake because Nellie said she was craving it last night. What other options did he have? Shelly was still an infant and did not know anything yet. Thus, Neil could only continue to spoil Nellie."Oh my!" Nellie's eyes enlarged as the cake drew her attention wholly, though tears still clung to her face when she started to smile. "You know, you're very amazing, too!"Sigh! You're totally different from Daddy. His cooking isn't good, but not yours, Neil. Your cooking tastes like Mommy's!"Nigel and Neil are very amazing! Daddy
[You never heard of him?]Gwen frowned and peeked at the man who was sitting behind her. Lowering her head, she continued to text Luna.[Is this man really a bodyguard Joshua hired or Joshua's friend?]Gwen believed Luna when she said the man was Joshua's friend, yet all of a sudden, she said she never heard about this man before.How peculiar.Theoretically speaking, Joshua made it very clear to differentiate his friends from other people. He would not make a silly mistake by calling a bodyguard his friend.If this man was Joshua's friend…why did Luna not know him or heard of him before?Joshua and Luna were so close to each other that Joshua would voluntarily inform Luna how many men and women were attending the dinner and who they were when he had no choice but to bring his clients out for dinner.There were no secrets between them.If the man behind her was Joshua's friend, Luna should have and would have known.[He specifically said the man was his friend.]Luna frowned
"Your noodles, Miss." The waiter placed Gwen's noodles in front of her, then did the same for the man.Within a few meters of each other, Gwen could clearly hear the man pick up his fork, remove his mask, and begin to eat.For a split second, she could not help wondering what she would see if she turned around right that instant.However, it did not take her long to dismiss that thought.She could not do this, not after promising Luna she would not force the man to remove his mask if he did not want to, so why was she so curious about him all of a sudden?At the thought of this, Gwen let out a sigh, picked up her fork, and began eating as well.At the table behind her, the man curled his lips into a smile as he watched her.After their meal, the two of them paid their separate bills and exited the restaurant, making their way into town, with the man following a few paces behind Gwen.They had not gone too far when all of a sudden, they were surrounded by burly men."You messed