“Ouch." Angeline cried out in pain.“Angeline?" Josephine switched on the lights and saw Angeline sitting on the ground with a quilt sprawled out on the ground. She quickly ran over to help her up."Why didn't you ask me to help you?" Josephine complained."I just think that I need to get used to the dark eventually," Angeline replied.Josephine felt a pang in her heart.Angeline was probably worried that she would go permanently blind one day and that was why she was trying to face the dark with a positive mind.The next day.It was a windless and gloomy day. The rumbling of thunder was heard over and over again.This was an indication that a storm was coming.Angeline’s intermittent loss of vision did not recover as quickly as it used to.Her vision was still completely dark.Josephine asked Angeline as she sat in front of the dressing table, "Should I apply the honey for you?"Angeline uttered listlessly, "I’m not going anywhere today, so just a moisturizer will do."Jo
Josephine let go of Angeline's hand without warning and whispered, " Angeline, nature’s calling and I need to go to the toilet to answer. Sit here and wait for me."Therefore, Angeline sat on the bench specially prepared for customers in the shop.Josephine hid in the dark and observed Jay in secret.She wanted to see Jay's actual reaction when he saw Angeline.Jay and Marilyn walked into the store. Most of the time, Jay would hold Tiger in his arms and stand on one side like an ice sculpture while Marilyn picked out the clothes that she liked."What do you think of this one, darling?" Marilyn lifted up a bright red dress suddenly.Jay nodded. "Mm."Overjoyed, Marilyn brought the dress to the fitting room and was about to try it on.Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper came over and snatched the skirt from Marilyn's hand, then sized Marilyn up and down with a look of disdain. At the sight of her cheap fashion, she spoke in a slightly harsh tone, "Madam, this dress costs 130,000. Can yo
"Miss, this mister right here is a good friend of mine. I’ll pay for all their expenses in the mall today." Angeline's voice might have sounded like a breeze, but it was also compressed in ice.The shopkeeper sized Angeline up skeptically and thought, ‘What sort of status does this woman have to speak in such an arrogant and haughty tone?’Before the shopkeeper could say anything to jeer at her, Angeline pulled out a supreme membership card from her handbag and handed it to the shopkeeper. "Here, swipe it."At the sight of the card, the shopkeeper’s face changed abruptly.Although she was just an employee at the company’s grassroots level, her boss would often emphasize supreme membership cards like that in the meeting.Her boss had always said, "Customers who enter our store with this card are the mall’s VIP. No matter who they are, you must treat them with even greater respect than your boss. You must provide them with first-class service and never, never make her feel even the
However, Marilyn pulled him back to the harsh reality, making him realize just how inferior and insignificant he was in front of the flawless Angeline."Let's go." He took Marilyn’s hand and left quickly.After Jay left, Josephine walked out of the dark. Her sympathetic gaze followed Jay as she smacked her lips and sighed. "How did a proud man like him end up with a low and vulgar woman like that?"Angeline's eyes were misted with tears. "That’s his fate after all."Josephine took the supreme membership card from the shopkeeper and admonished her, "Do you know who she is?"The shopkeeper looked dumbfounded. "Grand Asia’s president."The shopkeeper glanced timidly at Angeline, then apologized to her in a hurry. "I'm sorry, I’m really sorry. I..."Josephine turned her gaze to Jay, then asked again, "Do you know who that is?"The shopkeeper looked stupefied.Josephine answered, "The former president of Grand Asia."The shopkeeper was so astounded that her jaw dropped. Could ther
Jay’s falcon-like pupils contracted abruptly. He quickly handed Tiger over to Marilyn.Marilyn, however, grabbed his hand tightly as a flash of panic went off in her eyes. "Darling!"Jay said, "She helped us. I should return the favor."Despite that, Marilyn did not let go. Tears flickered in her eyes as she asked, "Have you fallen in love with her?"Jay, "...""The way you look at her just now… it’s different!"Jay was slightly startled. He was surprised to know that he, someone who had never shown his feelings on his face, had failed to conceal just how much he liked this woman.He had barely caught a fleeting glimpse of her.What was more, she so kindly and intelligently helped him out of the embarrassing situation, taking into account his dignity as a man. He had to admit that he found it impossible to resist such a gentle and beautiful woman like her.Jay looked at Angeline as she stood in the rain. He saw how her green dress was soaked and how she stood there looking lik
The exact same eyebrows.The exact same tenderness.The exact same beautiful eyes and the same radiant smile!The exact same youth and liveliness—so beautiful that it was impossible to be absorbed all at once!She looked just like a sculpture that had frozen in time!He needed to admit that such an exquisite beauty had taken his breath away.For some reason, he felt really happy when he saw this woman’s face. It was as if the scorching sun had melted the winter’s ice and snow.Jay stood there in a daze.As a wise and careful man, he surmised that the reason he was able to draw Angeline's bare face out of thin air was that she existed in his memory.Marilyn entered the room with the Tiger in her arms. When she noticed Jay staring blankly at a portrait, she walked over curiously.When Marilyn saw the portrait, she blurted out in astonishment, "Isn't this the blind woman we met today?"Jay's gaze moved to the pair of eyes on the portrait. Those were a pair of extraordinary and
As if she was reciting from a textbook, Marilyn was always able to answer with great precision. Not a single detail was left out. "Darling, three years ago, you borrowed money from a loan shark and was chased down by them to pay your debt. When you and Tempest tried to escape by car, your debtors drove both of you off a cliff."There was a dull and obscure look on Jay’s face. He could not think of any reason why he would want to borrow from a loan shark.He hated idlers who profited from other’s toils to the core. How could he possibly have anything to do with them?"Why did I borrow from a loan shark?" Jay asked with a frown."Who knows what you did out there? A few years back, you were working out there and would only come home once a year. Every time you returned home, you would dress up decently. I thought you were just an honest man doing an honest business. I didn’t think that you would’ve reached out to those riff-raffs for money.”Jay sighed weakly.When he tried to ask m
Caught between laughter and tears, Zayne said, "Just because Jay was at the mall, both of you drew up this self-injury scheme to capture Prince Charming’s attention?"Zayne glanced at the weak and frail Angeline as she sat on the couch. He became infuriated. "You must be out of your mind, braving such heavy rain just to gain Jay's sympathy?"Like a thunder piercing their ears, his voice made the overbearing Angeline and Josephine guilty at once.Zayne refused to let the matter drop. "It’s just an encounter. If you can’t do it today, you can try again tomorrow. Must you use your health as bait? Angeline Severe, do you think you’re very strong and robust? You’d better pray you don't catch a cold tomorrow or I’m going to sort you out.”As an older brother, Zayne had always put on a casual and carefree demeanor, looking like nothing ever concerned him.Whenever his sister hit him or when Josephine bullied him, he would act like a man of straw as he allowed them to do whatever they wan