"Don't worry, she won't dare do anything to me. Though, I'm afraid I need to keep an eye on her, so can you please ask the servant to bring my breakfast to me?" said Corinne softly.Bowen nodded. "Certainly. I'll ask the servant to bring it right away. And umm… Ma'am? Let me know if Miss Francine is acting up again."Corinne gave him an OK hand gesture before closing the door.Francine had just completed a few pages of the questions by the time Corinne finished her breakfast. Instead of rushing her, Corinne simply sat on the other end of the sofa and played on her phone.It was noon in the blink of an eye, and Francine finished the questions on the last page before she handed the practice book to Corinne to check. "I've finished! Let's see how you try to back out of your promise now."Corinne put down her phone and took the practice book. A smile quickly appeared on her face while she flipped through the pages.Francine frowned unhappily. "What are you smiling about?"Corinne sh
Francine skipped her lunch just so she could redo the questions. After painstakingly going through the questions again, she passed the book to Corinne."Here. All done."Corinne took a look at it and chuckled softly. "Not bad. You've got ten questions right. Quite an improvement."Francine felt a little humiliated. 'I only got ten questions right after listening to the lesson for an hour?'"I'm hungry! I'm going to have my lunch now." She could not stand to be humiliated by the one person she looked down at the most, so she chose to run away."Wait," ordered Corinne softly.Francine stopped in her tracks and turned back to glare at her. "What? I can't even have my lunch? Do you want me to starve to death?"Corinne put down the practice book, stood up, and put on her jacket. "I'm hungry too, so let's go out and eat together."Francine was a little surprised. 'She's inviting me out to lunch? Is this another one of her tricks?'"Heh! I wouldn't be caught dead with you out in publ
Francine's curiosity was then piqued. "Hey, Corinne. Why don't you get yourself a little something too since you have full access to my brother's credit card?""I have everything I need, so there's no need to buy anything."Frowning, Francine looked Corinne up and down with disgust. 'Her clothes are so basic… I mean, she's pretty enough to wear such basic clothing, but how will anybody know she's rich if she doesn't wear branded stuff?'"Of course you need to buy something! In fact, you should throw away all the clothes you have now and revamp your wardrobe. Corinne, you're Missus Hart now, so you should dress accordingly. If not, you'll just be an embarrassment to my brother."Corinne raised her head to look at Francine with something she could not quite decipher. This made Francine realize what she had just said. Thus, she cleared her throat awkwardly and said, "Ahem! Don't get me wrong. This is by no way me accepting you as my sister-in-law… I just think you should at least clea
Jason moved closer to Corinne. "Help me get out of this arranged marriage in a way that won't make both sides of the family mad."Corinne frowned. She did not bother to conceal the disgust she felt. "You know you can just tell her you're not interested, right? Why waste everybody's time by pretending to be a gentleman and bringing her here to shop for bags? It's just going to make her think you're interested in her."Jason shrugged. "I did tell her that, but she insisted it doesn't matter since we can slowly get to know each other and 'who knows, fall in love one day'. I've taken her out to lunch and to a movie…but I don't know what else we can do. She didn't want to go home, so she dragged me out to this mall."Corinne, you've always been a smart one. Can you please come up with a way to get me out of this?"Corinne took a sip of her coffee. She then looked up and down at the exasperated Jason, thinking, 'Well, with that handsome face of his and wealthy family background, any girl
"She's actually…" Jason was about to say Corinne was Jeremy's wife when Corinne cut him off."We actually got to know each other through having the same illness," quipped Corinne."Illness?" repeated Lola in shock.Jason never expected Corinne would respond in such a way. He initially frowned, but he then smiled in anticipation of what she was going to say next.Corinne nodded. "Yeah. He and I were in the same group chat created to talk about our illness. We were just talking about how he was doing just now."Lola looked questioningly at Jason. "What illness is she talking about? Jason, are you sick? Why didn't you tell me?""Uh-oh. Sounds like you haven't told her yet, Jason," said Corinne in mock surprise.Jason smiled and decided to play along. "Yeah, I haven't found the right time to tell her yet.""Oh, I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have been such a big blabbermouth," said Corinne apologetically.Jason shook his head. "It's okay. I have to tell her sooner or later."Lola was
Jason felt like crying and laughing at the sight.He then turned to look at Corinne, who sipped her coffee peacefully."Corinne, I might never get a wife if word gets out about this. What woman would want to marry a man who has an incurable intractable disease?" he asked with a raised eyebrow."You were the one who asked me to get out of the arranged marriage. What happens after this is none of my problems," Corinne replied nonchalantly.Jason rubbed his chin and smiled at her. "That won't do! You have to marry me if I can't get a wife because of this!"Corinne gave him a bored side-eye. "How can I do that when I'm married?"Jason narrowed his eyes. "Oh, I'm not in a rush. I can wait until you're divorced."Corinne took it as a joke. "And what if I'm never getting a divorce?" she asked after chuckling."Oh, you will," Jason said meaningfully.'That sounded more like a threat than a joke…' thought Corinne. She turned to him and raised her eyebrow. "What makes you think that?"
Corinne took out the gold credit card from her pocket and passed it to Francine. "Here, you can use this card. It doesn't require a pin code."Francine walked over and snatched the card from her. She threw her an angry glance before going over to the payment counter.After Francine left, Jason raised his eyebrow. "That's not Jeremy's card, is it?" he asked interestedly."How did you know?" asked Corinne.Jason smiled. "Because Jeremy only uses black cards."The bank only gave out black cards to their most exclusive clients; wealth was not the sole criterion for eligibility. On the other hand, they would give out gold cards to any client who had a certain amount of savings in their account.Jason straightened himself in his seat. "You're using your money to buy a bag for Francine? You do realize we're at the Hermes store, right?""I've promised her I'd buy her one. I can use Jeremy's card, but I don't have a habit of using other people's money to make someone like me."The look
Not wanting to let Corinne talk to Jason anymore, Francine dragged her out of the store. Once outside, she let go of her and muttered 'sl*t' under her breath.Corinne pretended not to have heard it. She looked around and asked, "What do you want to have for lunch?"Francine nearly blew up when she failed to bait Corinne into a fight. "I saw everything! Jason used a photo of you as his phone's wallpaper! Isn't it enough that you've seduced my brother that you're now seducing Jason, too?"Corinne did not even notice Jason used a photo of her as his phone's wallpaper. Surprised, she could not help but wonder how Jason managed to get her photo. After thinking about it, she recalled him saving a photo of her when he helped Annie take a group photo during the party held at Lunar Century Manor last time.'Ugh… Doesn't he have any boundaries at all?' she thought angrily. Then, while walking to the Asian cuisine restaurant in front of them, Corinne answered nonchalantly, "It's not like you'