Sitting in the car, Karin is very unsatisfied with the dress she is wearing. It is too revealing that it not
only shows her whole bare shoulder but also her cleavage.
Seeing her frowning, Troy smiles, freeing a hand to hold hers, and asks, "Are you okay?"
"I am not okay! I hate this stupid dress. I want to change it, but you won’t let me. Don’t you be jealous
and afraid that people will take advantage of me?"
"There is a decent reason that I don’t want you to change because it suits you so well that brings out all
your beauty."
She snorts and says, "It's too revealing, isn't it?"
"I'm the only one who can look at your breast, and I'll gouge out the eyes of anyone else who dares!"
Their car pulls over in front of Emmanuel's villa, and then the two get off. Karin keeps pulling her dress
up, while looking at numerous expensive cars parked in the front of the villa. Her heart beats fast. She
says to herself God can prove that she has no interest in fitting into this sophisticated world.
"Let's go."
Troy raises his arm for her to join.
Walking into the hall, just as she has imagined, she sees a world full of celebrities, like politicians,
successful businessmen and noble families, and plenty of fine wine and champagne awaiting there.
What a world of extravagance and wonderfulness.
"Mr. Troy is coming."
The couple slowly sails into the hall, while from time to time someone greets Troy from the far. Karin,
alongside this man, has to receive layers of judgmental look from them with her hand holding on the
man's arm tightened.
When they reach to Emmanuel, Troy stops his pace and greets, "Uncle Emmanuel."
"You do come to my ball." Emmanuel pats his nephew's shoulder and looks askance at Karin, and
adds, "This little chick is also here."
Little chick? Is she young?
"Which one is your uncle's daughter?"
She lowers her voice to ask with her eyes sweeping over every girl of her age.
Troy points to the left side and calls, "Gigi, come here."
Following the direction he points, Karin sees a living beautiful princess that only appears in a fairy tale,
wearing a pink princess dress. She has red hair with a small crown-shaped diamond hairpin on the top
of her head, and a fair face with a pair of big watery eyes. She is really a beauty at first glance, but she
also is too proud, Karin thinks.
Born in such a rich family, it's hard not to be proud for her.
"Brother Troy, why are you calling me?"
"Let me introduce to you, this is your future sister-in-law."
"No need to introduce to me, I know this village girl."
The elegant smile on Karin's face suddenly cools down. At this moment, there is only one thought in
her mind, if Billie is not the cup of tea of Robert, then this over-proud princess in front of her will be the
last one to be.
"You are so rude, Gigi!" Troy scolds his sister loudly.
"Who was being rude?" Gigi pouts her red lips to look innocent.
"I told you she's your sister-in-law, not a village girl!"
"Isn't that a sure thing? Do I have to call her sister-in-law now? Things are ever-changing, and who
knows what you two may end up, so it's too early to call her like that."
"Okay, okay, you just go away."
Troy waves his hand in displeasure and turns to Karin explaining, "She always talks in this way, please
don't be mad at her."
She shakes her head and says, "I don’t mind it at all. Since I've been with you, I have been used to
meet weird relatives from your family."
When a group of people comes to Troy, she quickly slinks away to the side and takes a glass of red
wine for a short time of enjoyment.
"It looks like you're having a good time now."
Suddenly, a sarcastic voice comes from behind her. She is shocked and spins around to find where the
voice comes from. It turns out to be Mia’s.
It is the first time for the two to meet since the last time Mia brought a group of reporters to make a big
scene in the Ziteng Garden.
"How charming is he. No matter where he stands, he always attracts everyone’s attention."
Mia points to Troy as she says. Indeed, he is a living symbol of glory, a representative of elegance and
grace, a star born to be looked up to by everyone.
"As long as you stand beside him, you will feel very close to heaven, once I was there, but since you
appeared, I fell from heaven into hell. Karin, I hate you, I curse you, I curse you to fall into hell one day,
and never go back."
Karin is trembling with fury, but in order to maintain a good image and not to humiliate Troy, she has to
swallow it desperately. And in the end, she only smirks and says to Mia, "You were once very close to
heaven, but I am now right in the heaven."
"Don't be so smug." Mia takes a step forward to lean to her ear, "I know better than you about what that
man's weakness is."
Watching the determined sight of her back, Karin feels terribly down. She thinks to herself, “What's
going on tonight? I’ve just been mocked as a village girl, and now been damned to go to hell? What the
hell I’ve done that deserves to suffer that much?”
"Hi."
Someone pats her on the shoulder while she is rubbing her forehead, thinking now who the hell is
coming to mock her again...
"Karin, I've been looking for you for a while."
What a gentle voice. Karin's tears are about to stream down with excitement, she raises her head and
lifts her eyebrows in a big surprise, saying, "William, why are you here?"
"Got invited, of course."
"Then how do you know I'd be here?"
"This ball is organized by Emmanuel. His nephew Troy is here. It is not hard to figure out you will attend
too."
She chuckles, "Look how stupid I am. I get dumb once I am provoked."
"Provoked? Who's gotten into you?"
William asks with confusions.
"It's nothing, but I'm glad to see you. You're the most pleasant person I've seen tonight."
"Oh, really? Then I'm very honored."
He raises the glass in his hand, "Here, here, let’s have a toast."
They cheer with each other. William looks her over, up and down, down and up, and praises her from
the bottom of his heart, "You look gorgeous today."
"Thank you."
She pulls her dress up unnaturally and puts one hand on the front of her chest, deliberately preventing
someone from peeping at her breast.
"You didn’t pick out the dress yourself, did you?"
"Uh, how do you know?"
"I can tell by your awkwardness."
"...Do I look awkward?"
"Yeah."
"Why would you think that?"
"You keep covering your chest with your hand, and actually..."
"What?"
"I have seen your breast already."
"..."
Karin wants to beat her breast and scream, but fights down her anger calling Charlie in her mind, my
Charlie, where are you now? Someone is gazing at my breasts! You must come to gouge out his eyes
now!
"I'm just kidding, don't take it seriously.”
William puts away the black side of him and restores his gentleman look as usual.
"Karin."
A gentle call comes near to her. It is Troy, this handsome man, who walks closely and holds her
shoulders tightly, asking, "Do you meet any acquaintance?"
"Oh, he's the senior from our school, William. I told you about him before."
She is about to introduce him, but Troy has already extended his hand and introduce, "Nice to meet
you, I am Troy."
"Nice to meet you, I am William."
The two make a weird eye contact when introducing each other, which is hard to comprehend from a
prospective of a woman.
Karin's mobile phone rings at that moment. She lowers her head to skim the number saying, "Please
excuse me to answer the phone.”
She doesn’t come back for quite a while. Troy starts to be a little worried about her, and goes straight
out of the banquet hall to look for her, but finds only her cell phone in a bush after a long
search.
Karin's mobile phone rings at that moment. She lowers her head to skim the number saying, "Please
excuse me to answer the phone.”
She doesn't come back for quite a while. Troy starts to be a little worried about her, and goes straight
out of the banquet hall to look for her, but finds only her cell phone in a bush after a long
search.
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