Early the next morning, Pa Rouco was mercilessly plucked from her dreand by Severo Laris.


    “Let me sleep a little longer.”


    A little woman fell back down with tousled hair.


    Severo Laris looked at someone who had fallen asleep in bed and said, “If you don’t make the eight o’clock train, your family will find out you lied, so if you’re not afraid of the consequences, you can go back to sleep.”


    “…”


    The little bedfellow stands up startled, disheveled and half-sitting up, his hair disheveled like a little lunatic.


    Severo Laris hooked his thin lips and reached over to her, reaching out to rub her even more disheveled hair.


    “Get up, I’ve made breakfast.”


    Pa Rouco washed, ate breakfast and greeted Modeste.


    Modeste stood in the doorway and motioned to them, “Paulita,e y more often!”.


    “Auntie, I will definitelye back more often.”


    After Severo Laris dropped Pa Rouco off at the station, Severo Laris went to the queue to buy a ticket and returned handing it to her.


    Outside the station za, there are strawberry vendors for sale.


    Pa Rouco looked at the beautiful and delicious colorful strawberries and tugged Severo Laris’ sleeve with her little hand.


    “Severo, I want to eat strawberries. ”


    Severo Laris turned his head to look at her and frowned a little, “That’s not clean, what if you eat them and get diarrhea?”


    “How can strawberries be unclean, I ate them all the time when I was a kid.”


    Severo Laris didn’t mind that she looked at her with such expectation and went to buy her some strawberries.


    Pa Rouco took the bunch of strawberries and ate them with relish and popped them into Severo Laris’ mouth, “Do you want to try one?”


    “You eat.” Naturally, Severo Laris reached out and touched the back of her neck.


    Severo Laris looked at his watch and saw that it was 7. 30, not early enough to go inside to wait for the bus.


    “Come in.”


    Severo Laris escorted Pa Rouco to the queue and stood outside the railing as she came to the door to check tickets.


    Pa Rouco entered and ran back to this side of the railing, tiptoed across the short railing and gave Severo Laris a quick kiss on the lips.


    The kiss, sticky, seemed to taste like strawberries, tart and sweet.


    Severo Laris looked at the small figure walking away with her little red-haired school bag, her eyes gentle and her gaze full of affection.


    …


    Pa Rouco, who had returned to La Ciudad Santa, was able to hide her from Adam Rouco and Estre Berrocal thanks to Susana’s coboration.


    She had just entered her bedroom and had crawled into bed to catch up on sleep when Lucio Rouco knocked on the door.


    “Sister, Brother Angelo asked you toe out tonight.”


    Pa Rouco pulled the nket over her head, drowsy and moaning under the covers, “No va no va, I’m dying of sleep.”


    Lucio Rouco arrived and said, “How can it be, Brother Angelo asked me to convey to you that he had something important to tell you tonight.”


    “What can’t we talk about on the phone?”


    “Brother Angelo can’t invite you to dinner over the phone, can he? 7 p. m., revolving restaurant, you must go ah.”


    Pa Rouco wrapped herself in the sheets and covered her ears, “That’s it, out, I want to sleep!”.


    Lucio Rouco exits the bedroom, closes the door and bumps into Estre Berrocal.


    Estre Berrocal looked towards the door and asked, “What is your sister doing?”.


    “Say you are sleepy and go to sleep.”


    “What are you doing so sleepy at Susana’s house?”


    Lucio Rouco threw out ament, “These two sexes. I’m sure they’re hiding under the sheets, reading porn. Books.”


    The corner of Estre Berrocal’s mouth twitched as she stifled augh and raised her hand to smack her son’s arm. “Your sister doesn’t want to lose face if you’re pounding her behind her back like that.”


    Lucio Rouco raised his eyebrows in disbelief, “My sister is like that, she wants to save face, she beats me in bed all the time, if it wasn’t because she is a woman, I would have beaten her to a pulp.”


    “If you dare to hit your sister on the head of a pig, your father will cripple you, believe it or not.”


    Lucio Rouco shook his shoulders, “I can’t afford to screw up.”


    Does he still have a ce in this family?


    …


    Pa Rouco arrived at the revolving restaurant shortly after seven in the evening.


    When she reached the top floor, Angelo was already seated at the table waiting for her and hurried over to her.


    “I overslept, and there was an afternoon rush hour traffic jam on the way, how long did you wait for me?”


    Angelo got up and walked behind her to help her pull up a chair as he said, “It didn’t take long, I just got here too.


    How could he possibly be such an idiot as to say he had been sitting here for a whole hour waiting.


    “By the way, why did you suddenly invite me to dinner today, and to such a fancy restaurant?”


    Pa Rouco looked around the room and suddenly realized that on the top floor, on this level, they were the only table.


    Pa Rouco’s eyes twitched at the corners, “Angelo, you’re not packing your bags, are you?”Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org.


    Angelo looked at her fondly, “What do you think, do you like it?”.


    Pa Rouco took one more look at the candle me burning on the western table and almost gagged, “What kind of candlelight dinner are you inviting me to on a fine day, with a private table, and frankly, you’re asking me for something?”


    “I can’t invite you to a candlelight dinner because I’m begging you for nothing?”


    Angelo pushed the menu, “See what you want to eat and order what you want.”


    Pa Rouco ordered a lot of food.


    When the starters and steaks arrived, Pa Rouco said as she ate, “The food at this restaurant, it’s pretty good, I’ll rmend it to my parents.”


    “As you wish.”


    Angelo took a few bites and then lost his mind, worried about the confession.


    He wiped the corner of his mouth with his napkin and sat up straighter, looking odd in his deliberate seriousness, “Paulita.”


    “Hmm?” Pa Rouco cut her te of steak and ate with gusto, without looking up.


    Angelo pulled a diamond ring from the ice, stood up and knelt before Pa Rouco.


    “Paulita, let’s get engaged.”


    Pa Rouco froze, the knife and fork in her hand fell onto the te with a crunch.


    Pa Rouco looked around and saw a musician standing a short distance away with a violin.


    The mood was good.


    But she was stunned.


    “Angelo, what are you doing, is it April Fool’s Day?”


    “Paulita, I’m serious, we’ve been together since we were kids, childhood friends, and it was only a matter of time before I fell in love, got engaged and married you.”


    Pa Rouco looked at him stunned, embarrassed and overwhelmed, “Angelo, do you want to get up first?”.


    Angelo didn’t get up, he lifted the diamond ring and said firmly, “Paulita, I like you, I’ve liked you since I was a child. Do you want to stay with me, be my girlfriend, my fiancee?”


    Or even a wife.


    “…” Her brain went nk for a few seconds.


    After a long moment, Pa Rouco swallowed saliva and said, “Angelo, we’ve always been good friends and I’ve always treated you like an iron ma, I never wanted to be your girlfriend, let alone your fiancee.”


    “So you don’t like me?”


    She lightly curled her thick eyshes and said, “I like you, but it’s between friends, I’ve never had any bad Thoughts, I like hanging out with you, but that’s just friendship.”


    Angelo pursed his thin lips, a sharp trace of loss crossed his eyes and he took a deep breath, “It’s okay, you don’t ept me now, it’s okay, there’s plenty of time for that in the future.”


    Angelo stood up, the diamond ring clenched in his hand.


    “Angelo, I’m in love with someone.”


    Angelo’s form stiffened for a moment, “Yes…. who is it?”


    “Severo Laris, you met him at the airport the other day. But you can’t tell my parents, my parents won’t let me have a rtionship right now.”


    “Are you together?”


    Pa Rouco wasn’t lying and nodded truthfully, “He’s my boyfriend now.”


    Angelo gave a fake lighthearted smile, “It’s okay, he’s just a boyfriend, you’re not married to him, I still have a chance at a fair fight.”


    “But…”


    Before she could say anything, Angelo had already interrupted her, “Besides, this prince, I’m a beautiful and elegant man, dare you guarantee that you won’t really fall in love?”


    “… Angelo.”


    “Don’tfort me, I’m fine.”


    Pa Rouco: “I … I’m not trying tofort you.”


    “Paulita, can we remain good friends from now on?”


    Pa Rouco was secretly relieved, “Of course we can, we’ve grown up with a friendship that can’t be dismissed out of hand.”


    Angeloughed easily at this.


    He had never confessed, probably because he was afraid of rejection. He didn’t seem to care about anything, but his heart was sensitive and fragile, and he feared that if he confessed, he wouldn’t even be friends with her.


    On the way home, Angelo was driving and Pa Rouco sat in the passenger seat.


    The Holy City is a night of lights, enveloping, floating light streaming through the window and reflecting off her pretty baby face.


    Angelo looked at her and finally couldn’t help but speak, “What’s so good about Severo… what’s so good about him that you like him so much?”


    Pa Rouco pondered for a moment and said, “Well … he’s handsome and a school god, many girls in our school think of him as their ideal boyfriend.”


    “But he’s not the only one who has reached that level, so how am I, Angelo, inferior to him?”


    Angelo even thinks he is better than this Severo Laris, I don’t know how much better than the general conditions.


    Severo Laris’ family background, at least, is poor enough, to be out of this world at all, in the eyes of families like Angelo and Pa Rouco.


    Pa Rouco looked at him with a smile and threw out, “It is enough that he is the best in my heart; in a thing like affection, if only the best were chosen, there would not be many couples in the world, I’m afraid, because the best would have already been chosen by someone else.”


    “Paulita, I’m afraid he’s approaching you with an ulterior motive, he’s so poor, in case he just wants to borrow from you…”


    Before Angelo could finish his sentence, Pa Rouco grimaced and rightly said, “Angelo, I forbid you to denigrate him like that.”


    “… I’m not denigrating him, I’m also thinking reasonably, he doesn’t want anything, how can he give you the same privileged life in The Rouco Family in the future, I think he probably wants to use you to get on Uncle Adam’s big boat by being with you. ”


    “Angelooooo! Stop the car!”


    “Paulita,e on, I’m imagining reasonable things, okay?”


    Pa Rouco scowled at him, “Severo Laris is my boyfriend and I forbid you to talk about him like that! Stop the car.”


    The blue Maserati, with a screech, behaved magnificently and steadily to a stop.


    Pa Rouco opened the door and got out of the car, hailed a cab and got in, and Angelo got out of the car toote to chase her.


    Angelo mmed the steering wheel as he sat back in the car, furious, “Grrrrr!”.