Me After Meeting You

“Haha!” Trysta couldn’t stop herself from laughing. “Director Axton, I didn’t expect you to look so good with those wings.”

Ian didn’t respond, but he was clearly pleased. After Trysta opened her mouth, it was as if she had broken the silent curse on everyone, and they all started chattering right away, asking, “Amber, who’s this? Is he your boyfriend?”

Or, “How handsome! Can I get an autograph?”

Or, even fiercer, “He’s a pretty cute young guy, isn’t he? Amber, are you sure that you’re not an old cow chewing on green grass?”

Amber’s made a -_-|| face at that comment.

She wasn’t that old, was she? And did these people really have to be this excited? She felt like her hand was about to be jabbed to pieces, and meanwhile, Silvia was standing to the side, just looking at her and laughing!

What had happened to accompanying her to the end of time?

Amber felt a headache coming on, but Ian was being unusually nice today. He was even willing to talk to them, and slowly answered each question. “She’s not an old cow chewing on green grass as I’m older than her.”

“I won’t give you a signature.”

“I’m not her boyfriend.” When the crowd fell silent at that answer, he continued to say, “I’m her fiance.”

Amber and the crowd were both shocked speechless.

Someone then asked, “Is there a difference between these two?”

“Yes. A boyfriend’s motive isn’t necessarily to get married, but a fiance’s is.”

Everyone in the crowd made a (Oo) face as they thought, How logical.

Amber’s only reaction was to complement Ian’s memory in her head; how long ago had she said those words? And to think that he still remembered them.

Silvia was still chuckling to the side, and she stretched her hand out and looped it around Amber’s neck. “Ah, Amber’s fiance. Can I borrow your fiancee and have a word with her?”

And before he could respond, she had already dragged Amber away from the encirclement.

The two went down an empty set of stairs, coincidentally running into Calvin on the other side. He was dressed fully in black today with a black overcoat and a black pair of pants. He had also cut his hair short. With his mouth slightly pursed, he gave off a sense of coolness that accompanied his usual melancholy and gentleness.

Silvia immediately became dazed when she saw him, only regaining her wits when Amber pulled on her back.

The first thing she did when she regained her senses was to let go of Amber, who was pulling on her clothes, and start posing with her body as she did her best to make a flirtatious expression at him. “Hey, idol!”

She revealed her intentions as soon as she opened her mouth.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Amber couldn’t bear to look at Silvia out of embarrassment. Calvin didn’t look at Amber either, instead only responding to Silvia. “The two of you are here quite early.”

Silvia played her hair as she coquettishly said, “We’re bored.” Then she shot him a teasing gaze as she asked, “You’re here alone?”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t you say you were engaged? Why didn’t you bring your girlf-” But when she recalled Ian’s distinction between a fiancee and a girlfriend, she sourly corrected herself. “… your fiancee over?”

After all, Trysta was already married. So in tonight’s party, she had specifically instructed the attendees to bring their “family members” over.

Calvin replied, “Something came up and she couldn’t come.” He then raised his head and looked in Trysta’s direction. The couple was currently trying to help Ian extricate himself from the crowd, and coincidentally, the latter was glancing over at him at the same time.

Their gazes met, but Ian was expressionless as ever. He only glanced at him briefly with an air of indifference and arrogance, as if he were looking at an ordinary speck of dust.

Calvin thought back to his mother’s words again. When he had pleadingly begged, “Why do you look down upon Amber so much? Don’t you know that the Axton family can’t wait for her to marry into their family?”

“It’s because their surname is Axton, because they’re the Axton family! Do you know what the difference between a kid from a rich family and a kid from a poor family to going to work and washing dishes is? The former’s looking for new life experiences while the latter’s trying to live!”

These words rang true, and they were so cruel that Calvin couldn’t say anything in response. And in this moment, when he saw that man being revered by the crowd and when he received his glance, he once again understood the true meaning behind those words that had been said so long ago.

He didn’t hear a single word of Silvia’s, carelessly finding an excuse to keep walking downwards.

Behind him, he could indistinctly hear Silvia ask in a perplexed tone, “My idol isn’t angry, is he?”

And then a familiar and gentle voice responded, “No, he’s not.”

Calvin paused. His hand clutched the handrail as he tightly clenched his eyes shut.

Silvia looked on, disappointed, as her idol walked further away. “He looks more and more handsome … but why does it also feel like he’s getting further and further away from me at the same time?”

Amber glanced at Calvin’s back with Silvia. He was only down there a few moments before he was tugged away by some male classmates, who hooked their arms around his shoulders as they said who knows what and pressed down on him so much so that his waist seemed like it was about to break in half.

After this, Amber didn’t see Calvin again for the rest of the night. After Silvia had had her fill with her, Amber was dragged off by Trysta to be interrogated in another corner.

Her first question was naturally, “What’s going on between the two of you? Is Calvin’s mother not okay with you two being together?”

Amber was a bit surprised, but soon remembered that it was very normal for Trysta to know about things, even though her circle of friends didn’t overlap that much with Calvin’s, she was intimately connected to his stepfather’s family.

She rubbed her face, exasperated. “Can we not mention it?”

Trysta stubbornly denied that request. “No. As your good friend, I have to tell you something. It’s actually a really good thing that the two of you didn’t get together! Did you know about this? Calvin’s mother used her illness as an excuse to trick him to return home from overseas, all so that she could use him to fight with her husband’s stepchildren for their family assets.

Calvin was initially unwilling to do so, so she forced him to marry the Lee’s daughter. This sort of mother, honestly … I wanted to tell you this earlier, but I was afraid that you’d get upset, so I held it in until now.”

Upon hearing this bombshell, Amber was slightly dazed. She knew that something had been up, but she could never have expected it to be this dramatic.

Trysta prodded her again. “Ian’s better, isn’t he?”

Amber didn’t know what to say, and only after quite a while did she answer, “Yes.”