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Chapter 248
Chapter 248
Chapter 248
After a week of planning, the details of the collaboration between Lane Holdings and Roberto were
finally finalized. Just when Hesper was still rather anxious about what identity she should use when she
went to meet Roberto, Matthew stepped in and took the Initiative to solve that doubt of hers.
“Matt, why are you here all of a sudden?”
Seeing that Matthew suddenly appeared at the door of her house, it took Hesper quite some time
before she could recover from the trance. She only came back to her senses when Matthew walked
into the living room with his luggage and changed into his slippers.
“If I continue to let you be, I’m afraid that you’ll lose your mind here in Genecity,” Matthew responded a
little angrily. “Do you really think that nothing would happen just because you didn’t let anything stupid
escape your mouth? If it wasn’t for the storm from a few days ago and the sudden collaboration with
Mr. Sanchez, which delayed my flight significantly, I would’ve arrived here long ago.”
Hesper was startled, but what Matthew said was rather funny.
“Matt, I think I heard what you just said in some drama a while back.”
Seeing that Hesper was still in the mood to joke around, Matthew sighed. “You… All you know is to
play dumb in front of me. Do you really think you can just get by this matter by fooling around? The
trips that you made to the aquarium and the amusement park… Have I reprimanded you unjustly for
those two incidents?”
Those intimate-looking photos actually crossed the ocean and traveled all the way from Genecity to
Emperion, ending up in Matthew’s possession at the end of the day. One could imagine how hot the
topic had been all this while.
Hesper felt a little guilty, while Matthew stood still in the living room, looked around the small apartment,
and sighed again. “I bought you a manor here yet you don’t want to stay comfortably there. You just
had to come out here and live in a small apartment by yourself. Does this mean to remind you of the
good old days in which you suffered?”
“Matt…” Hesper felt helpless. “It’d be better if you just scolded me.”
Before Matthew arrived at her place, Hesper was actually planning to go out for a walk. It was fortunate
that the recent weather had changed her and made her obedient. She looked very warm in a knitted Têxt belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.
sweater and a long woolen skirt.
Her attire looked harmless, and although her thick eyelashes originally made her appearance look
somewhat offensive, Hesper’s aggrieved expression actually changed the outcome.
“It’s all my fault-”
Matthew clearly knew that Hesper was only pretending to be pitiful.
He stared at Hesper’s clasped hands and was trapped in a daze for a moment, as if she had done this
to him a long time ago. Thinking of this, Matthew returned to his senses, and his gaze became a little
more complicated.
‘Sure enough… They do look extremely similar. Both Hesper and Rach.’
“Matt?”
Staring at Matthew’s bewildered look, Hesper called him twice before Matthew recovered from the
trance. “Alright, let’s get down to business now. I’ll take over the collaborative project and discuss the
details with Roberto from now on.”
Hesper nodded immediately when she heard his suggestion. “Okay.”
“You’re so…” Matthew sighed again. “You do realize that if you hand over the project to me and let me
be in charge, the person who’d benefit from this collaboration would be me, and this project would no
longer have anything to do with you anymore, right?”
Hesper certainly knew about this, but she glanced at Matthew with a weird gaze.
“The Lanes’ assets all belong to you while I’m just an outsider. I won’t compete with you for the
inheritance. So, why would I put on an exceptional performance?”
Hesper’s question astonished Matthew for a split second. For a while, the two of them exchanged
gazes in silence before bursting into laughter at the same time.
‘That’s right, there’s no conflict of interest between us, and that means that… We can always trust each
other.’
After dealing with the company’s affairs, Hesper would have to start preparing for the competition.
In order to better understand the outstanding strengths that the contestants of such competitions had,
Hesper searched through all the videos recorded during previous tournaments organized by Duval
Group over the years. She even watched some of that year’s clips.
The contestant that Hesper thought highly of was indeed eliminated in the latest episode, but in terms
of theme adherence and conception, the costumes she designed looked far better than Michelle’s, who
was ranked first in that week’s competition.