Chapter 248


    Chapter 248


    After a week of nning, the details of the coboration 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 coboration with


    Mr. Sanchez, which dyed 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


    y 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 stayfortably there. You just


    had toe 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 ce, Hesper was actually nning 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


    sweater and a long woolen skirt.


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    Her attire looked harmless, and although her thick eyshes originally made her appearance look


    somewhat offensive, Hesper’s aggrieved expression actually changed the oue.


    “It’s all my fault-”


    Matthew clearly knew that Hesper was only pretending to be pitiful.


    He stared at Hesper’s sped 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


    moreplicated.


    ‘Sure enough… They do look extremely simr. 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 coborative 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 coboration would be me, and this project would no


    longer have anything to do with you anymore, right?”


    Hesper certainly knew about this, but she nced at Matthew with a weird gaze.


    “The Lanes’ assets all belong to you while I’m just an outsider. I won’tpete 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 intoughter 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 thepany’s affairs, Hesper would have to start preparing for thepetition.


    In order to better understand the outstanding strengths that the contestants of suchpetitions 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 thetest 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’spetition.