She Was Very Busy
Tina felt tense under his stare.
Desmond) said, "You came to me and gave me something to eat. Could it be that you've been quietly falling in love with me? But this is normal. After all, I'm very charming!"
Tina was speechless.
She knew that he would say something stunning and shameless.
Tina acted as if she was trying to snatch the lunch box away from him. "Give it to me if you don't want to eat it!"
"No, no, no!" Desmond hurriedly held the lunch box tight and apologized to her. "Please! I was wrong."
Tina couldn't be bothered to argue with him.
Desmond opened the lunch box. Inside was freshly-made rice porridge, still steaming.
The rice fragrance and the warm steam instantly filled the car.
It must have taken her a long time to cook it - each grain of rice was thoroughly boiled. The porridge tasted soft and sticky. It didn't seem to be bought in a restaurant. Instead, it must be homemade.
Desmond asked uncertainly, "You made it yourself, didn't you?"
Tina said in a muffled voice, "Hmm..."
After receiving the call, she returned home and stood long before the stove to cook the porridge.
But it was all in vain.
She released a bitter laugh. When she raised her head, she saw that Desmond froze there with his head down. His expression changed several times as he stared at the thermal lunch box.
Tina was puzzled. "Are you alright?"
Desmond held the thermal lunch box tightly in his arms, his eyes shining, and looked at her excitedly. "Aww! I'm so touched! My mother had never washed clothes and cooked for me. You're the first woman who washed clothes and made porridge for me. Do you know that?"
Although he grew up in a superior environment, he felt alone and unhappy sometimes.
Desmond and his parents belonged to a collateral branch of the Chin family, so they did not have the right to take charge of the Chin's Group. Yet, they were busy with their work and rarely spent time on him. Most of the time, he stayed with the servants.
When his parents thought that he needed to be educated, they would let Wilson do it.
Thus, ever since he was born, he seldom saw his mother at home, let alone eat the meal she cooked.
A sense of warmness brought by this rice porridge in this thermal lunch box occupied his heart.
However, Tina's lips twitched slightly when she heard that. "Why are you staring at me like this? You won’t see me as your mother, will you?"
Desmond was struck dumb.
The touching atmosphere before disappeared at once.
Desmond closed the lunch box, intending to enjoy it slowly when he was back home.
He started the sports car again.
In the rearview mirror, the Chin's
Group became smaller and smaller as they got farther and farther away,
Tina slowly retracted her gaze.
When she heard that Wilson was sick and wanted to drink rice porridge, she ran all the way to him only because of their previous appointment. How foolish she was to do this!
Once again, she flattered herself.
Looking at the endless dark sky, she felt suffocated as if some dark clouds were weighing heavily on her heart.
At this time, Wilson was in his office on the top floor.
Wilson was wearing a white shirt with all his sleeves rolled up. His suit was set on the high-back chair. He bent over the desk working attentively, his eyes behind the glasses serious. His office was silent except for the busy scratching of his pen on paper.
The neon lights outside turned increasingly brighter.
Although he had been writing and working efficiently, it seemed impossible for him to finish the documents that piled up high on his desk.
Wilson took up another document and unfolded it. After carefully browsing it, he held the pen and was about to sign on it. Unexpectedly, he stopped.
A bowl of steaming rice porridge appeared before him.
Its fragrance spread everywhere, surrounding his nose.
Two minutes after Abby left, the office door was pushed open again.
Terry walked in respectfully.
Wilson immediately asked, "Why hasn't she come yet?"
Terry knew who he was referring to.
He had been anxiously waiting at the elevator all the time.
Yet, Tina didn't come as he had expected.
Terry looked awkward. He hesitated before saying, "I just called Miss Hall..."
Wilson looked at him and said, ' What did she say?
Terry said cautiously, "She said that she was very busy and didn't have time to cook porridge..."
After he said that, his boss' face turned cold almost immediately, which sent him a chill.
With a gloomy look, Wilson said, "Got it!"
Terry looked at the exquisite rice porridge on the desk and asked, "Then this bowl of porridge..."
Wilson said in a low voice, "Drink it!"
Terry had nothing to say to reply.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the weekend.
In the morning, the sky was clear with several white clouds, and the sun was shining brightly.
Today, the international center was extraordinarily lively. A lot of media was invited to make public reports for the finals of the Grand Fashion Design Contest.
It was at the finals. Besides, many important figures would show up. Thus, it attracted many people inside and outside of the fashion design industry.
One after another, people entered the hall of the finals, waiting for the contest to begin.
In the VIP seats of the front row, someone was throwing a tantrum at the staff.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Purchased A Mr. Right
Hate deception and Abby and Dylan take the cake ,ugh...
NO!!! Tina belongs with Wilson…. Let Dylan and Abby get together...
Wow, once again the villain messes up the true love, Abby needs to go back abroad. And Tina’s true identity as the daughter of Bill Ambrey needs to be exposed! Then the families can “convenience marry” !! Abby is a witch....
Too bad Wilson can’t figure out that his and Tina’s ex’s and his cousin Desmond are conniving creeps!...
Anthea is so stupid, lying and leaving the man who loves her more than life itself. 🤬...
She deserves to be unhappy, being with someone she doesn’t love because of resentment for the exact thing she is doing, hopefully she ends up with no one. Calvin is a wimp and doesn’t love her, just wants a wife to please his family....
So the same basic story as Simon and Addy but stupid Emily is going to marry him! What a hypocrite! Ugh...
Emily gets more stupid every chapter, when did she pickup Calvin as a fiancé!!?? This story line is awful….very sad to do to Simon what she “thought” he had done but didn’t. She is truly a dumb woman. Simon never loved or really even cared for Addy….what the hell is she doing with someone she doesn’t even know or like/love. Awful 😢...
Emily is a fool, don’t let go of the man who truly loves you. Let go of the past, of which he did nothing but help someone who saved his life, and be happy with him… he is your soulmate....
Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face Emily. Just stupid! Ugh 😩...