After walking out of the study, Robert asked Heather to do something that she enjoyed. She thought about the date with Matthias and wanted to seek an answer from Robert’s eyes, but she could only see exhaustion, so she left him alone.
She had no idea what came to her in the morning until she canceled her date with Matthias. If she could turn back time, she should have merely postponed it. Feeling troubled, she opened her Messenger and clicked on his chat bubble even though she had no idea how to explain it to him.
‘Do you have time to meet me now?’
She quickly finished typing a simple reply, but she did not send it out.
After thinking about it, Heather deleted the message, thinking that it was perhaps not that appropriate to be so direct with him. Looking at the message she sent in the morning, she did not feel too happy about it.
‘It’s the Lantern Festival today and I have some family business to attend to. Why don’t we meet another day?’
She slightly regretted her decision to send the message. Why did I ask him to reschedule to another day? I can make it for the date, but everything is in a mess now.
Apart from that, Heather still had not received a reply from him up until now. It made her feel even more uncomfortable because she had been so worried about Caleb’s arrival that she forgot to take note of that.
Judging from his character, Matthias would not ignore her message. Since he still had not replied to her message, she was afraid that he could be furious with her.
However, she had no idea that he immediately drove to the Langston Residence because of his disappointment. Yet, he was shamelessly turned down. When he returned to his place and saw the message again, he felt even more furious and deleted his previous chat history with Heather to avoid being troubled by it.
While Heather was still hesitating, Matthias felt resentful as he thought about the possibility of continuing to like her. Evan kept reassuring him, but Matthias did not cheer up whatsoever as if what he experienced was a great blow.
“Why don’t you try sending her a message? Perhaps it’s a misunderstanding.” Upon hearing what Matthias experienced at the Langston Residence, Evan advised as such. After all, he had no idea why Matthias was so resentful about it.
“It can’t be a misunderstanding. It’s just like what you told me earlier—women are unpredictable. She was just trying to calm me down yesterday, but she has no intention to meet me in person,” Matthias confidently predicted. This time around, he looked like he was about to throw in the towel.
“You just have to keep trying. You can’t give up at this point.” Upon seeing Matthias’ fury, Evan gave some words of encouragement for the fear that Matthias would do something rash.
“Perhaps it was a mistake to court Heather.” As he soaked his entire body in the spa, he held a wine glass in his hands and gulped its entire contents.
“You must believe in your own judgement. It’s a difficult thing to court a girl and such problems are to be expected.” Evan started to give positive advice again. To him, it was not a big deal, but the incident had started to hurt Matthias’ pride.
“She directly knocked her car into mine yesterday, so her hatred toward me must have reached the peak. I don’t think it’s possible for us to continue anymore.” Matthias insisted on his thoughts. Once he recalled that incident, he felt the pain stabbing in his heart. Just how much does she hate me, seeing her attempt to kill both of us together?
At that, Evan had no idea how to continue to motivate him anymore. Indeed, even Evan did not expect that Heather would do such a thing.
He had not met such a ‘passionate’ woman who would risk her own life to reject her admirers. However, there could be a problem with the way Matthias had conveyed his feelings.
“What exactly happened last night? No matter how much she dislikes you, I don’t think it would reach the extent of running her car into yours. She’s going to risk her life to reject you?” Evan asked rather gleefully. As soon as he imagined that situation, he could not hold back from laughing out loud. After all, it was quite a vivid imagination and the situation was rather comical as well.
Matthias clenched the wine glass in his hands with a savage expression on his face. Evan had indeed triggered him this time around.
Hence, Evan quickly stopped smiling and changed his tone to a more serious one. “I think your perception might be too rigid. Before you could even confess your feelings to her, she has already knocked into your car, so it can’t be considered as her rejecting you.” This explanation seemed pretty logical and he thought his deduction made sense.
However, Matthias shot Evan a glare. The more Evan spoke, the more it seemed peculiar. “What you mean to say is that she already wants to knock me down before I can even confess my feelings to her. If I really confess to her, will she run me over with a tanker instead?”
Matthias’ sudden question immediately made Evan break into fits of laughter. Is this one of his cold jokes? As Matthias’ words had painted a vivid imagery, Evan could not help but laugh out loud as he imagined Heather running him over in a tanker.
Matthias was so angry that he threw his wine glass at Evan. “What’s so funny about it?” Accompanying his words was the sound of glass breaking into pieces.
Even though it did not hurt Evan, his laughter immediately froze. If I continue to laugh, Matthias might go berserk and even slice me apart with his knife.
“Calm down. I promise I will be serious this time,” he said defeatedly as he was worried that Matthias would throw the wine bottle at him next.
“Miss Langston said that she is going to postpone the date to another time. That shows that you still have a chance. Perhaps something cropped up at the Langston Family today. Didn’t you think about this?” In Evan’s opinion, Matthias had already lost his cool. Not only was he irritable and violent, his thoughts were quite illogical as well.
“Something cropped up?” Matthias had indeed not considered this possibility. “What could have happened to them?” he asked in confusion, but he was already thinking about it.
“Are you asking me to wait for her update?” He ignored his question about the Langston Family because all that mattered to him was Heather herself.
“It’s better if you take the initiative. Why don’t you ask her about the date she wants to postpone it to? Surely, there must be a fixed time!” Evan continued to convince Matthias after he found out that Matthias was an idiot when it came to courting girls.
“Impossible. I will not talk to her anymore,” Matthias spoke angrily. He had already personally looked for her, but he was coldly rejected. That had hurt his pride and he felt that it was impossible for him to take the initiative again. I haven’t stooped this low.
“My dear director, it’s not the time to throw tantrums. You have to be more thick-skinned and patient when you are courting girls.” Evan started to slowly convince him again.
“It’s impossible this time around. Since she has already said that she wants to postpone it, she has to come to me herself to inform me what day she wants to postpone it to. Why should I take the initiative to ask her?” When Matthias became stubborn, he would not listen to any advice from anyone else.
“If you want to continue with your stubborn thinking, I have no other suggestions for you. Just don’t regret your decision in the future,” Evan spoke in a slightly threatening tone.
“I’ve already invested different feelings and effort for her on top of being immensely patient and thick-skinned. If this is still not enough, I guess we are just not a good match for each other. No one is to blame if we can’t get together in the end.” Even though Matthias seemed reasonable, it was possible that what he said was just all words. After all, it was highly unlikely that he was not disappointed and could easily accept the fact that he could not be with Heather.
“Yes, that’s a great way of putting it. I’m glad that you can think of it this way. After all, it’s not a big deal if you can’t be with Miss Langston. There are many girls who fancy you.” Evan smiled as he tried to motivate Matthias again.
Matthias merely raised an eyebrow. After the conversation with Evan, he felt better and his anger was almost abated.
However, in the end, he refused to message her first. This time around, he waited for her to come to him. If she really did not want to meet him, it showed that they were not meant for each other.
Sometimes, one would need the reply from the other party in a relationship—just like Matthias and his stubbornness at this moment. However, Heather was also quite conflicted. After she walked out of the Langston Residence, she had no idea where else she could head to.
After she walked around, she decided to visit Leon. Even though she had informed Matthias that they would rain check their date to another time, it didn’t mean that they needed to meet today.
Now that she was having mixed feelings, she guessed that she would end up having a fight with Matthias if they met now. Hence, it was better for her to speak to Leo at this moment. At the very least, he would try to cheer her up instead of giving her more troubles like Matthias.
More importantly, she wanted Leon to investigate the background of a specific person for her as she was quite worried. It was better to understand the opponent in order to win the battle.
After she arrived at his apartment, she saw him lying on the couch without caring about his image as he was having fun on a mobile game.
“It’s impolite for you to barge into my place without even knocking,” Leon complained. Whenever he was free, he would play a game that he had just downloaded.
Heather had the spare key to his apartment, so that she could easily visit him. However, it was indeed too abrupt. She ought to have at least knocked so that he was mentally prepared for a visitor.
“I will definitely remember to knock the next time around.” She sat down opposite him. Upon seeing his lazy demeanour, she was slightly envious of him. He looks so comfortable living his carefree life.
“You wouldn’t have come if you didn’t have a favor to ask. Shoot away. What do you want?” Leon knew that Heather had a favor to ask of him after he glanced at her.
“The data that you gave me was extremely useful, so I’m here to thank you. See, I’ve even brought you a present to show my appreciation.” Heather pointed at a bag of fresh vegetables on a table not far away from them.
“Wow, you really are cooking a meal for me!” he said with excitement as he jumped up from the couch and paused the game.
“Look at how excited you are. It’s just a meal. I can even make a few more meals for you.” Upon seeing her wide smile, Leon was immediately vigilant.
“Sure enough, you have something to ask from me. I was just wondering why you would quickly carry out your promise.” He was already familiar with her tactics.
Heather continued her wide beam. After all, it was always better to ask for help with a smile on her face. However, her smile had made Leon slightly fearful. After a while, he waved his hands and spoke seriously, “If you have something to tell me, shoot away. Don’t keep smiling like this. You are only scaring me.”
Upon hearing Leon’s words, Heather immediately retracted her smile and spoke to him with a straight face. “I just wanted to ask you to look a person up for me.” He felt quite amused after seeing how quickly she had changed her attitude.
“You want me to do another background check for you?” Leon did not like to be a hacker, so he looked at her with a frown on his face.
“Please? Can you please help me out?” Heather looked at him with her wide eyes and broke all her rules by acting cute. He could only obediently listen to her instructions after being at the receiving end of such a powerful ‘attack’ from her.
“So, where is the guy from this time around?” Leon asked in exasperation. Sooner or later, I would probably land into heaps of troubles because of her!
