Chapter 3

Estelle spaced out for a moment.

The man spoke in a cold tone, “What are you following me for? Are you a student at the University of J City?”

He had noticed the girl following him all the way, stopping whenever he stopped and even followed him to the elevator

Estelle’s face flushed, but quickly returned to a calm expression, “Is this the way to your home? It’s a public place, why do you think I am following you?”

A hint of coldness flashed in the man’s eyes. He leaned back a step to make way for Estelle to get on the elevator.

Estelle scoffed, “Never mind, I don’t want any misunderstandings.”

She then turned and headed for the stairs.

The elevator doors closed behind her, blocking out the sight of the man’s narrowing eyes.

Afraid of bumping into Jonathan again, Estelle decided to take the stairs up to the ninth floor.

When she arrived at the conference room, her advisor and the dean of the economics department were

discussing something. They gave her a look, signaling her to wait a bit.

A few other students were also there to hand in their documents, among which a pair of gloomy eyes stared at Estelle maliciously.

Pretending not to see, Estelle took out her phone and played Sudoku for a while.

In less than five minutes, she solved a round and heard footsteps approaching.

“You’ve been back for a while, huh? It’s about time you came back!”

With the principal’s voice, two people entered the conference room, one was Mr. Ingram, and the other….

Estelle couldn’t help but frown. What are the odds?

his gaze sweeping over her without

Mr. Lamont, the former student and current president of

Jonathan. He mentioned that today was the deadline

more time looking at Estelle, then smiled faintly. “The University of J City has always been a place

eyes rolling, wondering whether the real Jonathan was the

of Jonathan, some

girl who stared at Estelle just now suddenly stepped forward and chimed in, “Since

advisor frowned, not knowing what

“If you have something

at Estelle and said, “Mr. Lamont’s scholarship is meant to reward outstanding students at the University of J City. I think that being outstanding should not only include academic

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good moral character, right?”

course!” Mr. Ingrarn

phone and showed everyone

probably can’t afford a car like that I think we can all guess what she was doing is someone like this

whispered, “Brooke, why are you saying this in front of

eyebrows, “I want to let Mr. Lamont know what kind

phone, there was only some blurry photos of Estelle getting into a Mercedes S600 with an older man whose

explain this?”

was expressionless, her usually gentle eyes now icy cold,

interjected in his signature sarcastic tone, “What era are we in that students of

teeth and retorted, “There are photos,

did you see in those photos? If I speak up for her now, do you also want to say that there is something going

Estelle’s eyelids twitched.

that Jonathan hadn’t recognized her, which

is how

was

was silenced by Jonathan’s

embarrassed, and the rest were also uncomfortable. Estelle, however,

her defense.

spoke in a deep voice, “Mr. Lamont is right. A few blurry photos shouldn’t be used to judge someone, and it shouldn’t be on the University of J City’s

responded, “I’ll have someone delete the

and wanted to say something more, but the advisor stared

smile, “Since the principal, Mr. Fletcher, is using the conference room, why

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