Frank skeptically asked, ”What do you mean?” Melanie smiled, but indifference was evident in her eyes, “Don’t you have something that makes you happy? You can share that something with her. Once she’s happy, she’d be addicted to it and can’t leave you anymore, right?”Frank immediately understood her implicit meaning. He patted her shoulder and nodded.“Woman’s heart is truly the most poisonous thing in the world! Why don’t I give you a taste and let you feel happy with me?” He asked her with a smile and lowered his head to kiss her lips.Melanie hurriedly avoided him and said, “I’m being serious, but you’re joking! That something is very precious. You’d better save it for Lily to enjoy.”Frank raised his eyebrows but did not insist on forcing her. However, she did give him a new idea. He sat down, put away his teasing look, and asked seriously, “If so, what shall we do?”…Alexander was woken up by the phone ringing early in the morning. He frowned at it, fumbled for the phone
Alexander glanced at her car parked on the side of the road. “I’m going to the office. Why don’t you come with me?” He knew she would use her own vehicle and that they would not ride together. Unexpectedly, she went to the passenger side of the car, opened the door, and sat down after hearing his words, overcome with joy. “Okay, okay!”“...What about your car?” Alexander asked.“Who cares? Just leave it there! I’ll come back with you in the evening and drive it back.”‘Oh my God!’ She clapped her hands happily, thinking about being in the same car as Alexander.“It is likely to be towed before we return at night,” Alexander said helplessly.“Let it be. Even if it's towed away, I can just let someone drive it back. What do you like to eat, Alex? I don’t know if your taste has changed, so I brought several kinds. You can see for yourself what you want to eat.” After finishing her sentence, she handed the bag to him as if offering a treasure.Alexander subconsciously drew back the
Things were not going according to Brittany’s plans. Alexander quickly finished his breakfast, which was not what Brittany thought would happen—the duo sat opposite each other, chatting away as they ate their breakfast. He ate only a sandwich and had one cup of coffee before returning to his desk and turning on his computer.Alexander had fixed his gaze on the monitor immediately after eating his breakfast. After taking a few bites of the food, which tasted bland because he was not focused, Brittany could no longer sit still and put away her breakfast before walking over to him. “Alex, can’t you see that I’m here?”Alexander looked up at her before his gaze averted back to his monitor. “What is it?”“Do you hate me?” Brittany asked again, pouting.“No.”“Then why are you ignoring me?”“I’m working.”“You’re lying! You just don’t want to talk to me. Are you so busy that you don’t even have time to eat breakfast with me?” Brittany was so angry that she reached for his monitor and
“I’m busy. Also, I’m going on a business trip soon,” Alexander said.“Are you saying you won’t care about my sister’s safety just because you’re busy?!” Brandon yelled over the phone.“Hmph. You said it yourself—Brittany’s your sister!”After a moment, Alexander continued, “She’s not a little girl anymore. It would help if you told her not to visit my place so often. It wouldn’t be good for her reputation if people were to gossip. By the way, how does she have so much free time on her hands? Isn’t she supposed to be shooting a drama?”Upon hearing that, Brandon finally realized something. “You don’t want to spend time with my sister, do you? You know how she feels about you! My parents would be happy if you guys got together. What’s bad about it? Tell me honestly. Are you seeing someone?”Alexander stayed silent for a moment. “She’s your younger sister, and I regard her as my younger sister too. I’m hanging up now. Talk to you soon. You should go look for her.”After saying all t
In fact, this perfumery competition was not considered the most significant event for perfumers. It was more of a competition to discover new talents, so the organizers only invited young blood, like solo participants or perfumery company representatives, to participate in the event.The junior perfumers who registered as solo participants received special treatment because they could be exempted from the competition's first round. Due to that, fewer participants would take part in said round.As a representative of Rebirth, Lily had no choice but to join the competition’s first round. The task was pretty simple. Each participant had five perfume bottles and had to identify the ingredients used by smelling them. On top of that, they would need to identify the perfumes’ base notes.It was a piece of cake for Lily. Back then, Jenny gave her a similar task to make things difficult for her. The only difference was that Jenny’s task was much more challenging than in the competition’s fir
Lily walked past Melanie and strode toward the exit. ‘God knows why she stopped me back there. It’ll be troublesome if she tries to frame me or anything again later.’Lily saw Giselle walking over to her quickly as soon as she exited through the door, the latter’s expression filled with joy and excitement. She failed to conceal her emotions, although she tried. “Congratulations, Ms. Christian!”The results of the first two rounds were released immediately upon finalization by the organizer, but the participants had to stay for a while longer inside the venue. Lily found Giselle’s attempt to suppress her happiness hilarious and raised her hand to pinch Giselle’s cheeks.Giselle was stunned.“Let me give you some advice.”“What?”“Don’t call me Ms. Christian next time.” It was rare for anyone to call Lily that, making her feel weird getting addressed that way too.Her words made Giselle’s mind go blank for a second. “What should I call you then?”“What about my name?”Giselle bl
Giselle was one to worry about many things, but she was right this time. However, Lily's rejection was not solely motivated by a desire to avoid gossip, as meeting Lisa at such a delicate time could lead to unwarranted assumptions. Even if Lily did not care about that, it would affect the reputation of Lisa and her father.Lily looked at the man and said, “How about this? I’ll call Lisa and talk things over the phone with her.”The man stayed silent, so Lily took out her phone and called Lisa. However, the call did not go through at all.“Ms. Parker is doing this because she has no other choice. Ms. Christian, we hope you understand,” the man explained.At first, Lily wanted to decline, but she was worried that something had happened to Lisa or that she had encountered some sort of difficulty since the call was not going through and the man had Lisa's ring with him. After hesitating for a moment, she finally decided. “Fine. I’ll come with you.”“Wait!” Giselle, seeing that she cou
Giselled dropped to the side before she managed to finish her words.“Giselle?” Lily called her name with a frown. She grabbed her arm and shook it twice, “What’s wrong with you, Giselle?”Lily also felt faint halfway through the sentence. She looked at the person in front of her and said, “You guys are not the personnel sent by Lisa!”She, too, passed out and fell on Giselle’s unconscious body.“You caught on too late,” Jo said menacingly.The car drove to a desolate place. They stopped halfway to change to a different vehicle before continuing the journey. They used different roads before finally stopping in front of a small wooden house. The driver stopped the car and walked to the other side. Jo opened the door and jumped from the vehicle. They each carried Lily and Giselle on their shoulders and walked towards the wooden house.The people inside had likely heard the noise outside and opened the wooden house door to invite them in, “You weren’t followed, right?”“Hmph.” Jo