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 I could

secluded as well. I hid myself there so that it would

find

but hurried footsteps stopped outside the balcony. I didn’t

inched inward soundlessly.

you out of your mind? What on earth is so good

graduate, you need to undergo security clearance if you’re going

government.

hers? She can’t compare to Lulu in any aspect,

her own qualifications. Why must

was startled It

was Aunt Mel

as this was the White family’s private affairs, after all. It wasn’t appropriate

an

to know too

was obviously eavesdropping. Even though I wasn’t doing it intentionally, it wouldn’t look good if people

was a dead end. I had no

Felix

head over heels for Lilac. He began recklessly arguing with Melinda

in my position, Lilac was standing beside them, her hands clasped together

were tears in her eyes, and it made her look particularly

idiot, I

have to do with her? She was just a girl who had met a man that she

it was really nothing to

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