Three months later.“Look who it is. Douglass at a charity event? It’s so unlike you, I thought I was seeing things.”A classmate, upon spotting Douglass entering the venue, approached him, feigning exaggerated surprise. Then, belatedly noticing Sandra beside him, he offered an awkward greeting.“Your wedding is next month, right? You’re rushing things, aren’t you?”“It just happened. But seriously, are you everywhere?”Douglass chided his classmate while looking around. Since the main banquet hadn’t officially started yet, there weren’t many people gathered in the hall.“It’s not that I’m everywhere, it’s that you, Douglass, are never seen around. Especially lately.”“What’s the point of coming to these things? All I get is nagging from old fogies.”However, today, showing his face to those “old fogies” was unavoidable. Even though they had moved the wedding date forward, he needed to appear at social gatherings with Sandra to avoid the impression that they were rushing things.“By t
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