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“Yeah, I saw the news, so I know about it. What’s the matter?” Veronica asked despite knowing the

answer to her question.

“I told you to stay away from Matthew back then, but you didn’t listen. Look at the sh*tty stuff he’s done.

He’s a bi! How disgusting.”

It was easy to perceive Xavier’s anger over the phone, as if he really felt sorry for Veronica because of

what Matthew had done. However, she couldn’t help but recall what Matthew had said to her the other

night. Matthew told her that while she and Xavier were at the hotel, Xavier had texted him using her cell

phone, telling him that she had started going out with Xavier.

However, she could sense from Matthew’s expression that the matter wasn’t that simple. Matthew had

overreacted after that day. Not only had he spurned her, but he had even loathed her. It made her

wonder what on earth had happened that night. “Thank you for telling me these.”

She let out a sigh. “I never thought such a thing would happen either. Well, you seem like an unruly

dandy at other times, but you’re even franker than Matthew when we spend time together in private.”

“That’s of course.”

Veronica was utterly speechless; she didn’t expect Xavier to respond in such an unaffected manner

with no feelings of remorse. “I know what you want to say, but I’m a little tired today. I gotta go.”

“You wanna come out for a couple of drinks?” Xavier seemed to sense that Veronica was in low spirits,

and he thought she was upset because of what had happened to Matthew.

In reality, however, it was just that Veronica didn’t want to play along with such a despicable and

shameless person. Matthew used to be mean, but he never resorted to dirty tricks. On the contrary,

Xavier was an out-and-out villain who had even shamelessly installed an eavesdropping app on her

cell phone. Does he honestly think that I spent a few years at college for nothing? “What about

tomorrow? I’m a bit tired today.”

Seeing that she insisted on staying at home, Xavier couldn’t say anything. “Okay. In that case, have a

good rest,” he said before hanging up right away.

Veronica rested on her bed, thinking. Still, she wanted to know what had happened that night, so she

took out her laptop and hacked into the surveillance system. After searching for a long time, she finally

saw the scene where Conrad had stopped the car to let Xavier give her a ride that day.

Surveillance footage showed that Conrad had exchanged a smile with Xavier when he got out of the

car and saw the latter. Not only that, but he patted Xavier on the shoulder in a friendly manner before

Xavier got into the car to drive her to the hotel.

Veronica had long surmised that Xavier and Conrad were in cahoots, but it wasn’t until now that she

realized that they had been working together for a long time, especially during the family dinner that

night.

She didn’t get drunk that night, so why would she be so soundly asleep that she had no idea how she

ended up in the hotel? Once she thought about the details, she couldn’t help being terrified. In an

instant, she realized what she had figured.

After closing her laptop, she sat on the bed in quiet contemplation. After a long time, she called Xavier,

asking, “Wanna come out for drinks?”

Xavier fell silent for a moment. Then, he agreed readily, saying, “I just knew that you’re feeling down.

Let’s meet up at the usual place.” He was referring to the food stall where they had dined together

before.

“Okay.” Veronica hung up. After that, she picked up her coat, went downstairs, and drove there right

away.

Xavier arrived after she sat at the food stall for a while. Dressed in a cream-colored trench coat, he

looked handsome as usual, with the air of a young and unruly dandy.

“I’ve been waiting for you for ages.” Veronica smiled before pointing at the liquor on the table. “Come

on, let’s drink.”

Xavier pulled out a chair and sat down across from her before looking at the spirits on the table with a

worried expression. “Are you brooding over him?”

“Nope,” Veronica answered in the affirmative while shaking her head.

However, her answer made him certain about what he was thinking—that Veronica came out for drinks

in the middle of the night because she was upset over Matthew’s passionate kiss with the ‘unknown

man’ in public today. Of course, this was a good thing for him. Inwardly, he was delighted, but he

wouldn’t give himself away.

“Since you’re feeling down, I’ll drink with you.” Without the slightest hesitation, he poured himself a

glass of liquor and clinked glasses with Veronica.

The two ate skewers and drank while chatting in a good atmosphere. With that, Veronica’s spirits

gradually ‘lifted.’

“Oh, right, I gotta make a phone call. Yvonne called me this afternoon to ask me out to dinner, but I

forgot about it,” Veronica said while taking her cell phone out of her pocket before tapping on its screen.

“Oh, no. My phone’s dead. Yvonne is probably mad at me now that she can’t reach me by phone.”

“Just call her on my phone.” Xavier handed his cell phone to her. “I happen to have her phone number.”

“Uh, okay.” Veronica nodded and stretched out her hand to take his phone.

Xavier unlocked his phone and handed it to Veronica. Just as she was taking the phone from him, she

‘accidentally’ knocked over the single-use bowl in front of her, causing the soup to spill onto her

clothes.

“Be careful.” Xavier immediately pulled out a few pieces of tissue paper and handed them to her.

Veronica took the tissue and tried to wipe the soup stains away, but she couldn’t wipe the stains away

at all. As it happened, her phone call was answered. She chatted with Yvonne while pointing at the

restroom near the food stall, signaling that she wanted to go there to deal with the oil stains on her

clothes.

Xavier didn’t think much of it. “Just go.”

With that, Veronica continued to chat with Yvonne using Xavier’s phone while turning around to go to

the restroom. She was still holding the tissue paper in her left hand as she lowered her head to wipe

the oil stains away.

Once she was in the restroom, she turned on the tap and chatted with Yvonne while bringing Xavier’s

phone back to the home screen. Then, she opened Xavier’s WhatsApp and searched for Matthew’s

WhatsApp username right away, but no results were displayed.