Conrad was beaming. “A little bit of spiciness, and some earthy scent.”Fia was confused. “Why does ginger have an earthy scent?”“Oh, you silly girl.” He patted her head and took the ginger from her hand. He then patted the dirt from it.”He raised an eyebrow and asked, “Isn’t this dirt, Fia?”When Fia saw it, she awkwardly said, “You’re right.”Seeing the dirt on her hand, he dragged her to the poolside to wash her hand.Fia looked at his face from the side. Remembering how romantic he was, her heart began to jump again.After he washed her hand, he brought her close to him so that he could help her straighten her shoulder-length hair.“Do you want to stay at home or head out?”Her heart skipped a beat as she stared at him. “For a date?”“Yeah.”She bit her lips and then said expectantly, “Can we not go to the company?”“It’s fine to miss work for a few days,” he said as he poked her forehead.Now that her eyes had recovered it was time to do everything he wanted to do.
She suddenly woke from her dreams, her eyes wide.When their eyes met, Conrad said with a smile, “Are you awake?”Fia gulped. From his eyes, she felt like he was pampering her.Did he want to pamper her?“If you don’t wake up, I don’t know what else I’m going to do,” Conrad said as he lightly pinched Fia’s cheek. Her skin was smooth and bouncy. It was like a de-shelled egg. Fia turned around and looked out the window. “Where is this?”She had never left Gryphon and she was very familiar with Gryphon. This place was clearly not Gryphon.“Let’s eat first.”Conrad got out of the car and walked around to the passenger’s seat. He opened the door and unbuckled her seat belt.Fia looked around like a curious little baby. She happily held Conrad’s arm and patted him as she cried, “I can smell the ocean!”Conrad raised his eyebrow. Oceania was close to the sea. The closer they were to the sea, the easier it was for them to smell the scent of the sea.He even chose a place close to
Conrad gave it a thought. “But you’re right, too. However, every city has its own uniqueness.“Oceania is half a tourist city. There is definitely some tighter management in this area.”“What do you mean?” Fia asked curiously.“For the sake of the city’s long-term development, they cannot force tourists to spend. They need to make sure visitors feel comfortable.”Fia blinked and looked at Conrad, impressed.“How do you know all this?” Conrad’s heart was becoming softer as he patted her head.“Don’t flatter me too much. I’ll get arrogant.” His voice was deep and a little crisp. Fia was enjoying his voice so much.And she wondered if she was imagining things. She realized that he was getting more and more charming. And that he knew how to pick his words.It was so sweet…After they had finished their meals and left the restaurant, Fia tugged at Conrad to stop. She turned around and read the restaurant’s name.“Let’s come and eat in this restaurant again, okay?”“Sure.”“And
“Of course I do!”He stuck a straw in and then handed the drink to her and held the straw to her mouth.“Have a drink.”Fia was stunned. Now that she could see and there were strangers all around looking at them, she felt embarrassed to drink from his hand directly.“What are you embarrassed about?” Conrad asked helplessly and gently moved the straw into her mouth.Fia then sipped from the straw with her face red.Seeing that he was still staring at her, she grabbed the cup of milk tea and put the straw in his mouth.“Give it a try. It’s very nice and sweet!”Conrad was quite repelled by the idea as he didn’t like things like this. However, when he looked at her passionate eyes, he couldn’t lie to himself. Seeing how she loved to drink milk tea, he tried buying it once as well. But if he had to choose milk tea or wine, he preferred wine of course.“Conrad!” Fia pretended to straighten her face. “Milk tea or wine. Which one do you like?”“Wine.” He chose to answer honestly
Conrad instantly lost his mood after being screamed at by the boy. He stared at him with a dark face.He gritted his teeth and bent down, and whispered to him at a volume that only they could hear. “Know your place, little boy. Or I’ll throw you into the sea to become shark food!”“Ah! Mommy! I’m scared! The pervert wants to kill me!” The boy ran away as he cried.Conrad straightened his back with a smile on his face.Fia realized how pleased he was. She was speechless.While she didn’t hear it, from the look of things, he must have scared the boy.Very quickly, the mother ran up to them with the boy in his arms.“What did you do to my son?!”Conrad turned around and looked at the young mother, his cold eyes on the face of the boy in her arms.“I didn’t touch him.”“Mommy, I’m scared!” The boy had his arms around his mother’s neck tightly. Fear filled his voice and he didn’t dare to see Conrad.“If you didn’t do anything to him, he wouldn’t be this scared of you!” The young
After saying that, she pulled her brother’s leg and said, “You tell the truth. Did anyone hit you?”The boy looked at Conrad with a crying face and shook his head at his sister.The girl then snorted with her hands on her waist and questioned him angrily, “Then why did you lie to Mommy?!”The boy was a bit scared of his sister, because she kept on exposing him and bullying him behind their parents’ back.“I… I…”“See, Mommy?!” the girl said loudly. “He’s just trying to start trouble again!”The young woman looked at the boy in her arms with a frown and put him down. She then crouched down and looked at him at the same eye level before saying, “Tell me the truth.”While she was protective of her children, she wouldn’t act without cause.“Mommy…” The boy sobbed and opened up his arms, wanting a hug.“If you lie to mommy, I’ll get angry.”“Ah!” The boy cried and said, “He… He didn’t. He didn’t hit me.”‘But he scared me. He was so scary! He wanted to feed me to the fishies in t
The young mother looked at the two of them and asked, “Are you two boyfriend and girlfriend? Or husband and wife?”Fia said, “Boyfriend and girlfriend.”But Conrad replied, “Husband and wife.”The two of them answered at the same time.“Oh, you two are lying!” The little girl said in a childish voice.“We didn’t lie,” Fia said with a gentle smile. To repay the story the young mother told them, she explained, “We didn’t marry out of love.”“Huh?!” The young woman said in shock.Fia could feel Conrad’s body freeze. She continued to explain to her in a sincere tone, “There are a lot of problems in our marriage. He only let me be his girlfriend lately.”“I see.” The young mother lowered her head. Only adults could understand each other in their world.However, the young girl couldn’t and she tugged her cloth and asked confusingly, “Mommy, if they’re married, aren’t they husband and wife? Why did they say they are boyfriend and girlfriend?“Daddy said that those who didn’t get mar
In a beautifully renovated bedroom.A woman lay in a man’s arms without wearing anything.“Mr. Hall, I can’t contact Fia lately.”“You still haven’t explained to me why you work at Maxwell Corporation yet.”“To get closer to my enemy, Fia.” The woman smiled seductively.Peter held her chin and turned her toward him as he looked into her eyes.“Are you sure you’re not lying?”Esme’s heart skipped a beat even when she was wearing Britney’s face. She didn’t say anything but kissed Peter.With that, she lit up the flames in Peter’s heart that he had been suppressing all this while.He violently pushed her away. “Don’t play the fool with me, Esme!”Esme was so scared that she fell from the sofa.She looked at Peter in shock. “Didn’t you say that I can only be Britney Thomas? What if someone heard you calling me using that name?!”“And you’re afraid someone will know who you are?” Peter said in a cold voice as he bent over, and held her chin again.He pulled her closer and said