Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 18

Back then, Elliot was a real shrimp, he probably only reached up to her chin.

Elliot only shared a class with her for a semester, during which he didn’t do much more than call her ‘Tallie Julie.‘ It wasn’t until the day before he was leaving for abroad that Elliot suddenly asked Julie, “Tallie Julie, how about I treat you to ice cream tonight. and tell you how to win Kieran’s heart? Are you in?”

Julie didn’t give two shits about the ice cream, but winning Kieran’s heart was her master plan! Without thinking twice, she agreed and arranged to meet Elliot at the food street near their school gate.

At that time, Julie, a junior high school student, was only about fifteen or sixteen. She hadn’t expected Elliot to be a genuine scammer, the kind who tricked girls.

She still remembered that night; it was drizzling and they were sitting at a roadside kebab stall.

Julie eagerly asked Elliot, “Quick, tell me, how can I win over someone as aloof as Kerry?”

never get another chance. So, somehow, he ended up leaning in and gently kissing her lips. Then he seriously bullshitted her, “Boys never

she saw Kieran, who

at Kieran with an innocent and cute expression, “Kerry, it’s not what you think; let me explain…”

Kieran had already coolly walked away

her short legs and stubbornly sat on the back of his bike, insisting on

really cared about the thing she desperately wanted to explain.

managed to explain herself. The next day, she stormed off to school, ready to confront Elliot,

had transferred schools.

Elliot’s face started to blur in her memory. Maybe it was just as Elliot had said, she probably didn’t remember anything that

to Julie. Julie found it somewhat

not even up to my chin, but now you’re a head taller than me, your voice has changed, and your face has improved, so it’s normal for me not to recognize you. By the way, I was planning to confront you at school back then. But then I

he had gone abroad; the affection he couldn’t express at that time was buried in the past.