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?

also saw Estelle, his gaze sweeping over

principal and introduced Mr. Lamont, the former student and current president of the Lamont Group, as

became more respectful after shaking hands with Jonathan. He mentioned that today was the deadline for students to submit their scholarship applications, and all the

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

the handsome side profile of the man, her eyes rolling, wondering whether the real Jonathan

front of Jonathan,

now suddenly stepped forward and chimed in, “Since Mr. Lamont, the sponsor of the scholarship, is here, I

frowned, not knowing what

have

at the University of J City. I think that

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good moral character, right?”

Mr. Ingrarn

and showed everyone a

after school Estelle’s family is pretty average, so they probably can’t afford a car like that I think we can all guess what she was doing is someone

“Brooke, why are you saying this in front of

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

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

you explain this?” Brooke

eyes now icy cold, “Who are you? Why

are we in that students of such a prestigious university would

“There are photos, Mr. Lamont,

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

Estelle’s eyelids twitched.

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

added, “This is how

the word “prestigious”, which was clearly

by Jonathan’s overwhelming

Brooke was embarrassed, and the rest were also uncomfortable. Estelle, however, raised her eyebrows in surprise, not expecting that Jonathan would come

her defense.

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 forum

advisor immediately responded, “I’ll have someone delete

say something more, but the

turned to Jonathan and said with an elegant smile, “Since the principal, Mr. Fletcher, is using the conference room, why don’t we

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