Chapter 27
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The screen showed someone’s dating app profile with a full page of text in the introduction part
Giselle gave the long text a quick once–over and managed to catch the most important part. The paragraph said that both parties were to continue keeping their finances separate and pay for everything separately even after their marriage.
Was this prospect even worth considering after reading this term?
Giselle asked, “Are you sure this person is trying to score a date instead of a roommate?”
She was a relationship counselor. However, people usually misunderstood and thought that she was a matchmaker,
At first, Giselle would explain the differences between being a relationship counselor and a professional matchmaker. However, when people started paying her to be a matchmaker, Giselle just shrugged and accepted her fate.
After all, both jobs were kind of related to each other anyway. There wasn’t too much of a difference.
Emma clicked her tongue and said, “I can already see how stingy this guy is without even having to look at his face. I don’t think
he’s a good catch. But my cousin is helplessly in love with him and says she won’t marry anyone but him.”
This was Emma’s maternal cousin, and she was an introverted person who usually took a long while to warm up to someone. By right, she shouldn’t have fallen so deeply and so quickly for a man like this.
Still, this was something Emma just couldn’t understand. That was why she decided to get Giselle’s two cents on it.
Giselle took another closer look at the text. The more she read, the more red flags she found, and the more her mind was blown.
Aside from the part about keeping their finances separate, the man had even set the minimum score his future wife would have to
obtain in her SATS.
Just as she expected.
Giselle figured that there were just too many weird people in today’s world, but there were exceptionally many of them appearing
this year.
She said, “If your cousin really marries this guy, her future will be completely ruined.”
Giselle had only ever judged a person wrongly once in her lifetime, and that was one time too many. She wasn’t going to allow herself to make the same mistake again.
Men nowadays couldn’t be trusted, until they were dead. There was no exception to that.
The next morning, Giselle continued looking for a place to rent. However, things went exactly the same way they did yesterday.
Put plainly, she had been blacklisted by quite a number of wealthy and powerful families, and nobody in Seaworth City would ever
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dare to rent out their properties to her.
Giselle sat in the ice–cream shop with a glum look on her face. Coincidentally, she caught sight of the person she wanted to avoid
the most on the television.
The news said, “Today in Seaworth City, Mr. Jonathan Lawson was seen taking care of his lover at the hospital last night, setting up a good example for everyone in the city. Sources say that the Lawson family is looking to tie the knot with the Grant family sometime later this year…“‘
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A good example? Maybe the old Giselle would have agreed with the newscaster, but now….
She chuckled coldly. If Jonathan was to be considered a good example, then every other man in the world first had to be dead.
She turned off the television and continued focusing on looking for places to rent
Giselle went around to nearly a dozen places that day, but she kept getting rejected at every door. She couldn’t help but feel
discouraged at the end of everything..
Normal people were as small and helpless as an ant before rich, powerful families—what more herself, who had accidentally
offended too many such rich and influential families in the past.
Giselle couldn’t help marveling at her own stupidity for offending everyone and anyone when she went crazy and lost her mind.
Now, the most important thing was to find a place to stay. After hesitating for the longest time ever, Giselle finally tapped on Chester’s messaging window on her phone and sent him a text message.
“Mr. Fordham, are you free tonight? I’d like to treat you to dinner.”
She thought that she was going to have to wait a long time for an answer. However, Chester replied almost immediately.
“Time and place? Send me the details.”
Giselle made a reservation at a restaurant nearby and set the time for 8:00 pm.
At that moment, Chester and Hector were in the living room at the Shaw residence.
Chester smiled, and his eyes crinkled when he saw the text message from Giselle. Hector caught sight of everything and scoffed.
“Men in love are such terrifying creatures,” he teased.
Hector thought that Chester was most probably going to attract someone who was a helpless romantic. Who knew that Chester would turn out to be the one helplessly in love instead?
It was just so terrifying to him.
Chester glanced coldly at Hector, who shrugged and asked, “But how are you planning to pursue her?”
After all, Giselle used to be engaged to Chester’s own nephew. They had been dating for seven years, and everybody knew about their relationship. If Giselle got together with Chester now, people would easily misunderstand and talk badly about her.
