Chapter 22- Do You Like Me?
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“And those women in the novels you read, they don't have a good ending, right?!” Selene was speechless.
“Elena, how do much you hate us to actually want to hurt us like that?” Winnie looked at the ceiling as she sighed with a sad face.
“You’re too explicit…” Elena said as she really wanted to harm them.
Noticing that she was looking really angry, the two girls hurried to say, “You really don’t feel it, Elena?”
“What?” Elena looked at them, puzzled.
“Dear Elena, when he looks at you, his eyes are completely different from when he looks at us!” Winnie put her hand onto her forehead, helpless. “He’s chasing you. I feel sympathetic for the Prince once again.”
“Do you think this as well?” Elena couldn’t help frowning.
“Oh, you’re not so naïve that you cannot see it,” Selene said, looking at her in astonishment. “So, do you not have feelings for him, or are you playing hard to get?”
“What playing hard to get?” Elena was speechless. She thought for a moment before speaking. “What if someone suddenly told you that you won five million dollars in the lottery?”
“Of course, I am going to take the prize! And, then I will spend all my money!" Winnie struggled to answer first.
“...” Elena was convinced. She was helpless. “But it was clear you didn’t buy a lottery ticket.”
“So, you’re afraid he’ll lie to you?” asked Selene, puzzled. “But what can he lie to you about? He’s Charles. He could have any woman he wants, couldn’t he? Besides, what does get by lying to you?”
“That is what makes it even stranger because he has nothing to gain from lying.” Elena winced.
“I think, Elena, that you have thought too much!” Winnie concluded. “If you are not certain, just contact him as much as possible and get him to invite us out a few more times. Then you will be able to figure out what on Earth he is planning, right?”
“... I think you just want to have more free meals.” Elena couldn’t help rolling her eyes.
“Elena, you know me the best!” Winnie smiled broadly.
The door of the room opened and as Charles entered, the three girls immediately shut up.
Elena winked desperately at the other girls.
Winnie was helpless, so she looked over at Charles. “Mr. Luke, can we have your phone number?”
“I’m sorry, my phone number is for work. It can’t be disclosed,” Charles said regretfully. He took out a card and handed it to Winnie and Selena. “Here is my assistant’s card. You can call him if you need any help.”
“Thanks, Mr. Luke!” Winnie took the card and looked at Elena as if she was saying, “Sure enough. Look, it’s not that we were planning to give in, it’s that he is just so charming.”
Elena said glumly, “I’m full.”
“You are full?” A smile curved his lips. “Then later…”
“Later, we’ll go home!” Elena hurried to say. “I have to go to the library to study. I won’t be free this afternoon!”
Winnie and Selene looked sympathetically at Charles.
“... Alright, I’ll get you back,” Charles said sounding helpless.
Elena’s had a strong resistance toward him.
After the four of them walked out of the restaurant together, Elena got in the car, but Winnie and Selene didn’t want to get in the car at all.
“Mr. Luke, you can just take Elena back. We both want to go shopping, so we won’t bother you!” They laughed as they said it.
Elena was confused in an instant. What happened to the two of them? Why did they betray her?
“I’ll go with you!” she said hurriedly.
“Aren’t you going to study?” Winnie said unkindly. “Now you want to go shopping? Go back and study!”
“...” Elena didn’t know what to say, she just had a look of disappointment.
Charles nodded. “Okay.”
Elena watched Winnie and Selene walking away, angry and abandoned.
When Charles got into the car, Elena suddenly stiffened.
Charles c****d his eyebrows slightly. Elena kept rejecting him, so much that he was beginning to think that he had to take another approach.
When the car started, neither of them spoke, and there was an awkward atmosphere in the car.
“Elena, do you like me?” Charles asked suddenly.
In an instant, Elena was stunned.
Although Selene had talked to her about this, Charles’s sudden question caught her off guard.
“How could this be?” Elena said nervously. “I don’t like you! Not at all! Do not think any more of it! You’re not my type! Not now or in the future, I won’t like you!”
“Mmm, then I’m relieved.” Charles nodded.
... Huh?! Elena still couldn’t react.
This script was wrong.
She had thought that Charles asking her was for her to profess her love, and that was why she would say so in advance to stop him. But what did he mean now? Was Charles afraid she would like him?
Elena felt a little embarrassed. Had she been making a joke?
But then again, his words relieved her.
“It so happens that there’s one thing I’d like to ask you to help me with, and that’s why I invited you to dinner today,” he continued.
“What are you working on? Tell me,” she asked with a chuckle, with less guarded.
With his eyes twinkling slightly, he said cooly, “I’d like you to pretend to be my girlfriend…”
In an instant, she looked at him on alert.
“There was a woman who chased me, a lot. I just didn’t like her, so I told her I had a girlfriend. But she doesn’t believe it, and she won’t give up until she meets my girlfriend.” he explained softly.
“But you can find someone else. Why me?” She was somewhat puzzled. “Can’t you find someone who’s willing to pretend to be your girlfriend?”
“It’s not that I can’t, it’s that I mustn’t,” he said calmly, “because they all like me, and I’m asking you because you don’t like me.”
She understood instantly. “You are afraid other women will take the opportunity seriously and want to be your real girlfriend after that, right?”
“Yes, Elena, you are so smart.” He smiled. The little girl was really sensible. He looked at her, stumped. “Are you willing to help me?”
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