Be my boyfriend

The private room was dimly lit and filled with smoke.

When Evelyn first pushed the door open, it took her a moment to make out her surroundings.

She could tell there were many people inside, but the darkness made it difficult to see their faces clearly.

The moment she stepped through the doorway, everyone in the room turned to look at her.

The men were stunned.

The women were immediately filled with jealousy.

The reason was simple.

The woman standing at the doorway was simply too beautiful.

Evelyn noticed all the attention and quietly sighed.

Then, with a small smile on her face, she stepped into the room.

“Evelyn!”

Jason immediately stood up from the sofa when he saw her. He waved at her with a grin. “Over here.”

Evelyn walked toward him.

Only then did her eyes slowly adjust to the dim lighting.

She could now see the interior of the private room more clearly.

A long glass table occupied the center of the room, with numerous people sitting around it. Most of them were seated in pairs.

There was also an attractive woman sitting beside Jason.

Evelyn was just about to approach her cousin when a teasing voice suddenly came from the table.

“Eh? Young Master Carter?”

A bald middle-aged man looked at Jason before shifting his gaze toward Evelyn.

“Is this beautiful little thing your woman?”

Jason immediately laughed.

“You’ve misunderstood, William. She’s my cousin.”

“Your cousin?”

William raised his eyebrows.

He looked at Evelyn again.

“Isn’t your cousin the one from the Lu family…?”

His voice suddenly trailed off.

Another man sitting nearby chuckled.

“Young Master Carter, could this be Evelyn Lu? The young lady who was dumped by Ethan Gu?”

The moment he said this, several people around the table exchanged knowing looks.

Evelyn Lu.

The second young lady of the Lu family.

She had once been engaged to Ethan Gu, the young master of the Gu family.

But Ethan had betrayed her by getting involved with Victoria.

The scandal had spread throughout the capital.

Almost everyone had heard about it.

Yet as the people in the room looked at Evelyn, many of them couldn’t understand Ethan’s decision.

How could he have chosen Victoria over her?

Evelyn’s long, silky black hair fell loosely behind her back.

Her skin was smooth and delicate.

Her eyebrows were neat, her nose small and elegant, and her lips naturally red.

Her beauty was striking.

There was something soft and innocent about her appearance, almost as though she had stepped out of a painting.

Yet Ethan had still abandoned a woman like her for Victoria.

What was he thinking?

Evelyn heard the whispers around her.

But she didn’t allow them to affect her.

Instead, she continued walking forward calmly.

She smiled at the people around the table.

“Please don’t misunderstand.”

She paused for a moment.

“I was the one who dumped him.”

The moment those words left her mouth, the expressions of the women in the room changed.

Their eyes immediately became more hostile.

The men, especially the older ones, reacted very differently.

They looked at Evelyn with undisguised interest and began to laugh.

“Miss Lu, you’re quite bold.”

One of them chuckled.

“Honestly, Ethan Gu isn’t worth much anyway. It’s a good thing you dumped him.”

“Exactly.”

Another man laughed.

“Out with the old and in with the new, right?”

The room erupted in laughter.

Several men continued staring at Evelyn with shameless interest.

Their gazes made her feel like prey surrounded by hunters.

Evelyn’s smile slowly faded.

Then—

“What’s so funny?”

A cold, masculine voice suddenly cut through the laughter.

The entire room fell silent.

In an instant, everyone froze.

No one dared to make another sound.

Evelyn, however, froze for a completely different reason.

Her eyes widened.

That voice…

She slowly turned her head.

Her gaze moved toward the far end of the glass table.

A man was sitting there in the darkness.

He was seated at the head of the table.

Even though most of his face was hidden by the dim lighting, Evelyn recognized him immediately.

Her breath caught in her throat.

It was really him.

Alexander.

She had never expected to meet him here.

Not now.

After everything that had happened, Evelyn had deliberately suppressed her desire to see him.

She had planned to find him only after the crisis surrounding her had settled down.

This was already a sensitive period.

She couldn’t afford to become too close to another man, especially after the scandal involving Ethan.

She didn’t want to give anyone another reason to attack her.

But she had never expected fate to bring Alexander directly in front of her.

Their reunion had come far too suddenly.

Alexander sat at the head of the table with a dark expression.

His deep amber eyes were fixed on Evelyn.

His entire presence gave off an icy, intimidating feeling.

This girl…

He had planned to see her again in a few days.

He hadn’t expected her to come to a place like this by herself.

And those men…

Had she not noticed the way they were looking at her?

Anyone could tell that Alexander was extremely unhappy.

Yet nobody dared to ask why.

Everyone around the table held their breath as they watched the scene unfold.

They silently wondered what had suddenly made Young Master Shi so angry.

Evelyn couldn’t see Alexander’s expression clearly because of the darkness.

But she could still sense his displeasure.

She didn’t care.

Her mind was filled with something else.

Victoria’s final words before her death.

Alexander had given her his heart.

He had even given her his corneas.

Why?

Why would he do that for her?

She had hated him.

She had pushed him away.

She had even wished that he would die.

Yet in the end, he had given his own life to save hers.

Was he a fool?

How could he willingly give everything to a woman who had wanted nothing to do with him?

Evelyn’s eyes slowly reddened.

Her heart trembled.

She took one step toward him.

Then another.

With every step, Alexander’s face became clearer.

His dark hair.

His elegant eyebrows.

His deep amber eyes.

His high nose bridge.

His perfectly shaped lips.

His sharp features were almost flawless.

There was also an innate dignity about him that made him seem distant and untouchable.

Like a Greek god sitting among ordinary people.

Alexander narrowed his eyes as Evelyn approached.

A faint flicker passed through his gaze.

He still wasn’t certain whether Evelyn had known it was him the previous night.

She had been drunk.

She had hugged him and mumbled all sorts of things.

At first, he had even thought she had mistaken him for Ethan.

But after what happened that morning, he realized his assumption had been wrong.

She had known exactly who he was.

That left him with another question.

Who had made her cry?

And why?

Finally, Evelyn stopped directly in front of him.

She was overwhelmed with emotion.

Her eyes were red, and her heart was pounding.

Then she said something that shocked everyone in the room.

“I want to be your girlfriend.”

Boom!

The words landed like a bomb.

Everyone stared at Evelyn in disbelief.

Had they heard her correctly?

She wanted to be Alexander’s girlfriend?

Had what happened between Ethan and Victoria affected her somehow?

Everyone in the capital knew Alexander.

He was the powerful heir of the Shi family.

Young Master Shi.

He was also famously cold toward women.

It didn’t matter how beautiful they were.

There had once been a woman bold enough to throw herself into his arms.

Alexander had simply kicked her away and ordered his bodyguard to remove her.

After that, she had been completely blacklisted from his world.

Since then, no woman had dared to approach him so recklessly.

Most women could only admire him from a distance.

Yet Evelyn had walked directly up to him and boldly declared that she wanted to be his girlfriend.

Was she crazy?

Or had something given her this much courage?

Even Alexander was caught off guard.

For a moment, he simply stared at her.

Then he raised an eyebrow.

His amber eyes became impossible to read.

“Reason?”

His voice was low and deep.

Evelyn lifted her chin slightly.

She looked directly into his eyes.

Then she whispered,

“To take responsibility for what happened between us.”

A faint glimmer of delight flashed across Alexander’s eyes.

The next second, he stretched out his arm and pulled Evelyn into his embrace.

She stiffened slightly at the sudden closeness.

Alexander lowered his eyes and looked at her.

His voice was deep and magnetic.

“Alright.”

Boom!

His answer was like a torpedo exploding in the middle of the private room.

Everyone was completely stunned.

No one moved.

No one spoke.

A dice suddenly dropped into a dice cup.

“Tick-tack.”

Someone’s grip loosened around a wine glass.

“Smash!”

The glass slipped from his hand and shattered on the floor.

Another person was so shocked that he fell straight off the sofa.

“Crash!”

The entire room descended into chaos.

Everyone stared at Alexander and Evelyn as though they had just witnessed something completely impossible.

Nobody could understand what had just happened.

Young Master Shi…

Had actually agreed?