hapter 64
Aurora’s Perspective
“You can go back now. I’ll attend tonight’s banquet,” Ferris said impatiently.
“Alright.”
After leaving the breakfast behind, Ashley gave me another smug look before leaving.
When Ferris turned around, he indeed saw me standing behind him.
For some reason, he instinctively felt guilty.
“When did you wake up?”
My expression was calm: “Just when Ashley asked you to marry her. Congratulations.”
Ferris’s heart clenched sharply.
The air froze for a few seconds.
Ferris’s dark eyes gazed deeply at me: “If you have any objections, you can voice them now.”
As he said this, his gaze locked firmly on me, while he silently repeated in his heart-
As long as she said one word of “no,” he could immediately overturn all decisions.
However, I only smiled faintly, gently shaking my head, my tone even calmer and more distant than before: “Congratulations to you both. If you need me to cooperate with the divorce proceedings, I will, gladly.”
Something heavy seemed to crash down in Ferris’s heart.
He hadn’t expected that I truly didn’t care anymore.
Didn’t care that he was engaged to someone else, didn’t care whether he would come back, didn’t even care who was sitting beside him.
His throat tightened, but he didn’t know what to say, only feeling the irritation rising in his chest growing stronger.
The next second, he coughed abruptly, walked to the table, grabbed the breakfast Ashley had carefully prepared, and threw it into the trash without hesitation.
“Order whatever you want to eat yourself.” After saying this coldly, he walked past me and entered his study without another word.
I didn’t stay at the villa any longer and drove back to my apartment.
Encountering such things at the hot spring hotel had already ruined my vacation mood.
After getting home, Milo called me.
“Aurora!” Milo’s voice was as bright as always, though it carried barely contained excitement. “I have good news to tell you.”
“What?”
“That medical project we invested in together last time has been approved by the research institute, and the funding has been approved too. We’re even on the first round of priority funding list.”
I was stunned, then sat up straight with some surprise: “Are you serious?”
“Of course I’m serious! Would I lie to you? The details and clinical data in your report were beautifully done. The experts specifically praised you by name. We couldn’t have been selected without your contribution.”
I couldn’t help but smile a little, and the gloom weighing on my heart seemed to lift somewhat: “That’s wonderful… really wonderful.”
Just after he finished speaking. Milo clutched his head in regret: “Three years! A whole three years! If you hadn’t run off to get married, our company would probably be world–famous by now!”
Hearing him shout made my ears hurt, so I held the phone away.
After hanging up, my mood improved considerably. I opened my wardrobe to choose a dress.
There was an auction in a couple of days, and with my grandmother’s birthday approaching, I wanted to go to the auction to pick out some suitable gifts for her.
On the day of the auction, I dressed up specially.
I applied light makeup and wore a well–tailored black off–shoulder dress, paired with pearl earrings, making me look dignified and elegant
As soon as I arrived at the exhibition hall entrance, I saw a woman in a silver dress waving at me with a bright smile.
It was my good friend Cynthia.
This auction had a high threshold, and I could only get tickets thanks to her help.
Both Cynthia and I dressed quite low–key, but because we were both exceptionally beautiful, we still attracted many eyes when we appeared in the auction hall.
Cynthia had attended several auctions and was quite active in these circles, so many people knew her.
But me–they were all seeing for the first time.
Seeing me attend the auction with Cynthia, many people were speculating about which family’s daughter I might be.
