LOGINEvelyn turned back toward the campus.
From a distance, she could already see Bonnie gathered with the class monitor and several others. As she got closer, their voices carried over.
“There is no way Evelyn can deliver all those graduation gowns by herself.”
“Bonnie, if you do not actually have something important, we are not going to keep running around the whole campus with you. We will take the remaining gowns over together.”
“Exactly. And Evelyn is not in great health. If she has to walk back and forth too many times and faints, that would be trouble.”
Bonnie was just about to say something else when she caught sight of Evelyn walking toward them. Her eyes widened in shock.
“Why are you here?”
She had already bribed the owner of the gown rental shop. She told him, “When someone from the psychology department comes to return the gowns, lock her in the storage room.”
Patricia: ?Evelyn: Why did you write so many intimate scenes in your novel for no reason? Page after page, chapter after chapter, all kissing everywhere.Patricia: ??The screen showed “The other party is typing” three times in a row. After a few seconds, Patricia’s message finally came through.Patricia: You read my novel?She did not argue about the intimate scenes at all. Instead, she seized the key point.Cold hearted Evelyn read a romance novel?If Patricia remembered correctly, the first truly intimate scenes did not appear until after a hundred chapters. Which meant Evelyn had not only read it, she had read more than a hundred chapters.Evelyn: I was bored tonight, so I read a bit.Evelyn: Did you not start a new book recently? Try some restraint. Anyone who did not know better would think they were browsing a restricted site.Patricia: side eye grin emojiPatricia: Baby, anything you can read on a legitimate reading app is approved for publication. It is not restricted conten
Gloria did not have time to respond.Evelyn stood up from the swing chair first and headed inside. Nick is back. I am going downstairs to meet him.Gloria remained where she was.She stood frozen for a full thirty seconds.Slowly, she turned her head toward the direction Evelyn had left. The slender figure was already gone.But that sentence lingered.There was no way Gloria had misheard it.And precisely because she knew she had not misheard, the shock cut deeper. Evelyn had never wished to live longer. For her, living one more day was already torture.Every minute and every second weighed heavily on her.All she wanted was to see her revenge fulfilled as soon as possible, then leave this world and finally be free.Yet just now, Evelyn had said she wanted to live a few more years.Downstairs.Nicholas crossed the pebble path in the courtyard and saw Evelyn standing on the marble steps at the villa entrance, wearing slippers.He looked at her. She looked at him.Evelyn stepped down to
Evelyn sneezed twice in a row.Someone was probably talking about her behind her back.The elevator descended slowly.Nicholas instinctively rubbed her slightly cold hand. When he turned to look at her, he took off his coat, spread it open, and draped it over her shoulders, pulling the collar tighter to wrap her up properly.You still need to wear an extra layer when you go out. No cutting back on jackets.Okay. Evelyn nodded.Nicholas was much taller than her. When he lowered his gaze, all he saw was her obedient little nod, so well behaved it made his chest tighten. The more compliant she looked, the more certain he became that she had been wronged badly, and the feeling in his heart was hard to describe.The elevator reached level B2.He held her as they walked out, led her to the Maybach, opened the passenger door for her, bent down to fasten her seat belt, then closed the door and walked around to the driver’s seat.The car sped away from the New York University board building.T
She lifted her head and first saw his clean sharp jawline, then his well defined face. His fingers were warm and firm as he held her by the shoulder through her clothes. Evelyn could clearly feel the strength in his knuckles.Every board member in the room stood up and greeted him politely.Fabian was no exception.Sensing that the situation had turned, Fabian stopped looking at Quiana and stood up with a forced smile. “Mr. Drake knows this student?”“Evelyn. My wife.”The room fell into instant silence.For a long moment, there was not a sound, until faint murmurs slowly spread.The board members who had felt Evelyn looked familiar finally remembered. They had seen Mrs. Drake from afar at Mr. and Mrs. Craig’s anniversary banquet last month.Back then, she had been elegantly dressed in a refined gown.She had been holding Nicholas’s arm. He was tall and broad, shielding h
Evelyn turned back toward the campus.From a distance, she could already see Bonnie gathered with the class monitor and several others. As she got closer, their voices carried over.“There is no way Evelyn can deliver all those graduation gowns by herself.”“Bonnie, if you do not actually have something important, we are not going to keep running around the whole campus with you. We will take the remaining gowns over together.”“Exactly. And Evelyn is not in great health. If she has to walk back and forth too many times and faints, that would be trouble.”Bonnie was just about to say something else when she caught sight of Evelyn walking toward them. Her eyes widened in shock.“Why are you here?”She had already bribed the owner of the gown rental shop. She told him, “When someone from the psychology department comes to return the gowns, lock her in the storage room.”
Near noon.Evelyn left the office and headed to Zhicheng Building, just like the class rep had said. Everyone had to gather there within two hours to return their graduation gowns.When she arrived, the class rep had already collected almost everything. A huge pile of gowns was stacked on the stone edge of a flowerbed.Evelyn folded hers neatly and placed it on top.Just then, Bonnie ran over from nearby. “Class rep, I need to talk to you about something.”“I still have to return all these gowns…”“Find someone else.” Bonnie turned her head to look Evelyn up and down. “She stood in the center for the graduation photo. It’s only fair she does something for the whole class now, right?”“You can’t take all the benefits and do nothing. Isn’t that right, Student Yu?”“But Evelyn doesn’t have the strength to carry that many gowns,”







