Chapter 23

“Luna, Lili’s timid and shy, so you’ve got to treat her well. Don’t disappoint me.”

I wouldn’t disappoint him, but he had really disappointed me.

We’d known each other for 19 years, and I was sure he knew very well what kind of person I was. But he was giving me an indirect warning in front of everyone as if I was some kind of sly, spiteful person.

I wasn’t that kind of person, but I was really disappointed.

I said, “Okay.”

Uncle Austin and Aunt Mel probably knew about Lilac’s family and were very unhappy about it. When

dinner started, they kept plying me with food while ignoring Lilac completely.

Lilac shrank back helplessly in her seat while Felix continuously comforted her in a low voice.

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My parents couldn’t say much as this was the White family’s affairs. As for me. I focused intently on

eating and enjoyed the food thoroughly like the connoisseur I was.

This was the most boring dinner I had ever eaten.

When I had had my fill, I put down my cutleries and went out on the balcony for a breath of fresh air.

love, so the only thing

was small and rather secluded as well. I

to find me.

long after, light but hurried footsteps stopped outside the balcony. I didn’t want to

inched inward soundlessly.

mind? What on earth is so good about that

Once you graduate, you need to undergo security clearance if

government.

of hers? She can’t compare

background or her own qualifications. Why

startled It

Aunt

really wanted to leave, as this was the White family’s private

an

like me to know too

was obviously eavesdropping. Even though I wasn’t doing

was a dead end. I had no way to leave unless I jumped off

Felix

Lilac. He began recklessly arguing with Melinda in a

beside them, her hands clasped together helplessly as she watched

her eyes, and it made her look

an idiot, I began to feel sorry for

she committed? What did her parents‘ problems have to do with her? She was just a girl who had met a man that she

and I, it was really nothing

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