Chapter 267 Julien is Buddy


    Bam!


    The office door was closed, and there was a sudden silence inside.


    Sydney looked at her hands that were grabbed by Julien and said coldly," President Flint, Luke was


    taken outside. Can you let go of me now?"


    Julien hummed and let her go.


    With her hands free, she immediately took two steps back to distance herself from him. "What


    exactly do you want to say to me, President Flint?"


    Julien looked at her, his eyes mixed with deep feelings. "I wasn''t messing with you when I talked to


    you in Shallow Bay. I''m serious. The person I love is you, not Lyra!"


    Sydney was silent for a few seconds beforeughing mockingly. "President Flint, what exactly about


    me are you so hung up about? Not only are you lying to me, but you even roped Grandma into this


    as well?"


    Seeing that she was unwilling to believe in his sincerity, he sighed. "Do you remember Buddy?"


    He asked instead of answering.


    Sydney''s expression changed slightly at that name. "How do you know Buddy?"


    She was the real Maple Leaf!


    Julien''s eyes softened, and he replied," Buddy is my nickname. Many years ago, my mother called


    me that!"


    "You... You..." Hearing those words, Sydney went wide-eyed and pointed at him. She


    clearly understood that he was Buddy, the one who had been pen pals with her for many years!


    As if knowing what she wanted to say, Julien pressed her hand down gently. "I''m Buddy, Maple


    Leaf!”


    Now that he called out her own pen name, she could no longer deny that he was not her pen pal.


    However, she still found it hard to ept.


    "How could it be you?" Sydney bit her lip, feeling ridiculous. "Why are you Buddy?”


    That gentle big brother who wouldfort her with letters when she was bullied by her stepmother


    or when she was unhappy was Julien!


    "Why can''t it be me?" Julien frowned slightly. "Do you regret that Buddy is me?" He could tell that


    her expression was disappointed when she confirmed that he was Buddy.


    She did not want him to be Buddy!


    Julien’s heart clenched slightly.


    He came here full of excitement, wanting to tell her that they were pen pals.


    He thought that she would be happy that he knew she was Maple Leaf. After all, they used to be so


    close.


    Unexpectedly, she reacted like this!


    Maybe she was not unhappy to see Buddy. Maybe she just did not want to ept that Buddy was


    him.


    If another person was Buddy, maybe she would not react like this.


    At that thought, Julien''s hands could not help but clench by his sides, and cold air overflowed from


    his body.


    Sydney took a deep breath and looked at him. "Sorry, President Flint, but I do regret that you''re


    Buddy. You''re not the slightest bit simr to the Buddy I know."


    Of course, she should say that it was the Julien Flint of today that had no resemnce to Buddy.


    However, the Julien from six years ago was the same.


    When she met Buddy, she was only twelve years old and just started middle school. Once, her


    sister from her stepmother broke a vase but used her of breaking it, and her stepmother pped


    her while her father was not at home. She shut herself in her room in sadness and went online to


    write this incident on a drift bottle before throwing it out.


    After a while, she got a message saying that someone replied to her drift bottle.


    That person was Buddy. From that moment, Buddy and her became pen pals.


    Buddy was gentle but also very knowledgeable. It seemed like there was nothing he did not know.


    He answered all kinds of problems for her and patiently talked to her when she encountered


    frustrations. He even gave her a number of ways to deal with her vicious stepmother. It could be


    said that Buddy took half the credit for her being able to grow up under her stepmother''s shadow.


    When she was in high school, she fell in love with Julien at first sight and began to know more


    about him. The more she learned, the more she found that Buddy and Julien had simr


    personalities. They were both very gentle people. At that time, she could not help but wonder if she


    was with Julien, would he treat her the same way Buddy treated her?


    For that reason, she personally asked Buddy that question. Of course, when she asked, she did not


    say who she liked. She only mentioned that he was a senior who had graduated for a long time so


    that Buddy would give her an answer. If Buddy''s answer was simr to what she thought, then she


    would summon her courage and confess to Julien, who had just taken over Flint Corporation. That


    was during her sophomore year.


    That year, after she asked Buddy, his reply was not as punctual as usual. The letters which should


    have arrived in her hand every Sunday only arrived half a monthter. In the letter, Buddy did not


    answer her question but offered to meet her instead, saying that he had something important to say


    to her personally. Then, he left a phone number in the letter for her to save.


    After she saved it, she dialed the number. Buddy answered, but he seemed to be sick, and his voice


    was weak and breathless. After he told her the time and ce of the meeting, she heard a doctor


    on his side saying that it was time to go into the operating room. Then, he hung up.


    One monthter, it was the time of the meeting. She went to the ce that Buddy mentioned and


    prepared to meet with him, but unexpectedly, she waited from noon until it was dark without seeing


    him. She could not get through him on the phone either, so she simply returned to her dorm in


    disappointment. The next day, Buddy sent her a text message saying that she did not have to write


    to him anymore.


    This was the whole story of how Buddy and her met and ceased contact with each other. The


    melodramatic part was that Buddy and the man she had a crush on at that time were the same


    person, Julien Flint!


    "You’re right. It''s true that Buddy and I have no simrities now." Julien lowered his eyes.


    Due to the fading hypnosis, he gradually remembered what his previous self was like.


    However, he knew very well that even if the hypnosis was lifted, he could not change back to his old


    self after all the schemes and plots he experienced in the business world.


    "Enough. What’s the point of saying all that? Even if you''re Buddy, has that got anything to do with


    you loving me?" Sydney took a deep breath and pressed down the surging emotions in her heart.


    Her voice was cold and indifferent.


    "Of course, it has!" Julien''s thin lips answered, "Many years ago, I fell in love with Maple Leaf. I


    couldn’t believe it myself. I actually fell in love with a girl I''ve never met before. That girl was you,


    Sydney!"


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    "Wait!" Sydney quickly raised her hand. " You''re saying you fell in love with me when I was Maple


    Leaf a long time ago?"


    "Yes!" Julien nodded.


    Sydneyughed with a hint of a sneer. "Do you think I''ll believe that? You got together with Lyra six


    years ago. That means..."


    "No!" Julien knew what she was going to say and interrupted her immediately. He exined


    seriously, "I''ve never loved Lyra. The one I love has always been you. I got together with Lyra six


    years ago because I took her for you."


    "What?" Sydney''s expression was stunned as she opened her mouth. "You took her for me?"


    Julien nodded. "Six years ago, I saw you say in a letter that you wanted to confess to someone. I


    couldn’t ept it, so I wrote back to you and asked to meet you. I wanted to tell you personally that


    I''ve always loved you and wanted to be with you, but in the end, the person who came wasn''t you. It


    was Lyra!"