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?

saw Estelle, his gaze sweeping

and introduced Mr. Lamont, the former student and current president

shaking hands with Jonathan. He mentioned that today was the deadline for students to submit their scholarship applications, and all the students present had benefited

glanced over and seemed to spend more time looking at Estelle, then smiled faintly. “The University of J City has always been a

eyes rolling, wondering whether the real Jonathan was the playboy they talked about or the refined

up in front of Jonathan, some looking up at him in

stepped forward and chimed in, “Since Mr. Lamont, the sponsor of the

advisor frowned, not knowing what

Ingram gently said, “If you have something to

to reward outstanding students at the University of J City. I think that being outstanding

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good moral character, right?”

Mr.

her phone and showed everyone a post on the

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

“Brooke, why are you saying

to let Mr. Lamont know what kind of people his scholarships are supporting Isn’t that a

face darkened as he took a look at the phone, there was only some blurry photos of Estelle getting into a Mercedes S600 with an older man whose face

how do you explain this?” Brooke looked at Estelle

face was expressionless, her usually gentle eyes now icy cold, “Who are you? Why should

sarcastic tone, “What era are we in that students of such a prestigious university would still use such baseless rumors to slander

teeth and retorted, “There are photos,

see in those photos? If I speak up for her now, do you also

Estelle’s eyelids twitched.

suddenly grateful that Jonathan hadn’t recognized her, which allowed him to speak up for her

added, “This is how prestigious

was clearly a satire on Brooke’s previous

silenced by Jonathan’s overwhelming

slightly changed, Brooke was embarrassed, and the rest were also uncomfortable. Estelle, however, raised her

her defense.

and spoke in a deep voice, “Mr. Lamont is right. A few blurry photos shouldn’t be used to judge someone, and it shouldn’t

have someone delete the post

say something more, but

an elegant smile, “Since the principal, Mr. Fletcher, is using the conference room, why don’t we go

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