CHAPTER 5: CHAPTER 5: WHEN DID YOU TWO HOOK UP?

Realizing his blunder, Wyatt cleared his throat awkwardly and asked, "When did it happen? Back then at Aethelgard, you and Adrian were the famed power couple, how did it..." divorce?

Not him.

Serena came to her senses.

If the man in the hospital who snatched her back from the jaws of death was Wyatt, then regardless of what had happened, he certainly would have known Adrian had long stopped caring about her life or death and abandoned her.

Impossible to be him.

Serena lowered her eyes, "It’s all in the past now... people change."

Wyatt kept silent.

The wonton’s soup wasn’t any special broth or chicken soup, nor any secret family recipe.

Just a simple seaweed and shrimp skin soup.

The flavor was perfect.

The temperature, just right.

Yet as it slid down into his stomach now, it carried a scorching heat.

The heat spread out, making Wyatt feel like he had just finished a run in the morning, urgently needing a cold shower to calm down.

"Enough about me..."

Serena naturally changed the subject, "Leave me an address where you can receive gifts, and I’ll send you an engagement gift."

Wanting to say no need.

But as his eyes landed on Serena’s face, Wyatt changed his words, "Add me on WeChat, I’ll send it to you."

Serena was stunned, her heart pounding crazily.

She had Wyatt’s WeChat before.

At the freshman orientation party, the tall and handsome boy with a casual air asked, "Hey, which way is the dorm for architecture students?"

No one responded to him.

It was she who helped him out, and only then did Wyatt step down, showing a bit of friendliness.

That was the day he added her on WeChat.

Over the next two years, they frequently kept in touch, mostly him borrowing books or asking for help with schoolwork.

As they became familiar, he occasionally asked her for small favors.

Later, after she graduated, they occasionally called each other, or exchanged festive greetings on WeChat during holidays.

Serena considered herself never to have wandered, nor crossed the line.

In her eyes, Wyatt was just a diligent yet a bit unruly junior.

But Adrian was jealous, saying Wyatt had obvious intentions towards her, causing him to feel upset seeing her exchanging WeChat messages and calls with Wyatt.

As she became busier with pregnancy and raising a child and their contact dwindled, when Adrian once again brought up trivial past grievances to pick a fight, Serena went ahead and blocked Wyatt.

In the vastness of Aethelgard, she and Wyatt, like mud on the ground and clouds in the sky, were unlikely to intersect.

But Serena didn’t expect, years later, the awkward boomerang would come flying back to her.

"Alright..."

Her earlobes slightly reddened, Serena hid her inner awkwardness and pretended she wasn’t adding him for the first time, opened her phone to scan the code to add him.

The profile picture was still a pitch-black image.

Wyatt’s WeChat name hadn’t changed.

SS.

The campus forum said the school heartthrob’s WeChat name was a silent threshold; the girl he liked had to have a perfect double-S figure.

Wyatt’s version stated that S represented everything Wyatt possessed.

Super Super.

Once upon a time, she didn’t know what it meant.

Later, upon learning that Wyatt’s name was at the pinnacle of the Aethelgard elite pyramid, Serena finally understood.

Family background, wealth, and social status...

Everything Wyatt had was beyond anyone else’s reach.

Serena sent over a friend request.

Raising her eyes again, she saw Wyatt slowly eating the wontons in his bowl.

No intention of picking up his phone to accept her friend request.

Serena stood up, "Take your time eating, I’ll be going first."

"Let’s go together!"

Wyatt pushed his bowl aside, took a napkin to wipe his mouth, and got up to walk outside with Serena.

After a few steps, seemingly remembering something, Wyatt turned back to look at the busy shop owner behind the stove, "Mr. Warren, from today on, comp meals for 29 days..."

Amused, Serena turned back and saw the shop owner, skilled and accustomed, reply cheerfully, "Got it!"

"Where are you headed?"

Within a few steps, they reached the car, Wyatt turned to look at Serena, "I’ll give you a ride."

"No need."

Serena shook her head in thanks, "I’m going to school to have a look, it’s not on the way."

Hawthorne Corporation is downtown Aethelgard.

Aethelgard University is in the suburbs.

Definitely not on the way.

Wyatt didn’t insist further. Instead, asked, "So, what are your plans next?"

Finding work was a necessity.

But Serena hadn’t begun to think about it.

To be precise, she hadn’t had the chance to think.

Considering leaving Aethelgard for another city to start anew, completely away from Adrian and Miles.

But having grown up in Aethelgard since childhood, Aethelgard was home.

Nearing thirty and facing the prospect of leaving her home behind, all because of two undeserving people.

Serena couldn’t bear it.

"I don’t know yet."

Serena shook her head, "Let me clear my mind for a few days and think it over."

"Alright."

Wyatt nodded, accepted the friend request on his phone, and sent over an address, "I’ll be waiting for your gift then."

The Ferrari sped away.

Serena took a glance at the cloudless blue sky and turned onward.

Lingering in the mall for two hours, every price tag she saw made her deeply regret being too quick to speak at the wonton shop.

Fallen to the point where her bank card and WeChat balance only totaled around a hundred thousand, yet she suggested giving him an engagement gift?

And Wyatt actually agreed???

A cheap gift would be embarrassing.

Expensive, she couldn’t bring herself to buy.

Seeing Una pinging her over and over, asking where she was and when she’d arrive, fearing the braised lion’s head at the second cafeteria wouldn’t hold out much longer.

Serena gritted her teeth and opted for a pair of cufflinks costing 19,999 before checking out.

The clerk packed it meticulously.

Promised to notify her once the delivery went out through express.

Serena hurriedly jogged into the subway station.

Hastening along, she managed to arrive during dinner at Aethelgard University’s second cafeteria.

"What did you say you were doing during the call?"

Feeling she might have heard wrong; if it weren’t for two public classes in the afternoon making it improper to slack off, Una would have phoned right away to ask the details.

Serena replied calmly, "Ran into Wyatt while eating wontons, today he’s getting engaged, I picked a gift for him."

Wontons, Wyatt.

Wyatt, engaged.

Serena, gift.

Each sentence carried an intriguingly peculiar vibe.

Una blinked, "When did you two... hook up?"

???

The juicy braised lion’s head stuck in her throat, Serena coughed, flushing red, "Mr. Hutton, can you watch your wording?"

Hook up, what does that mean?

Not to mention she and Wyatt were entirely innocent.

Today of all days was Wyatt’s engagement, Una’s comment was truly inappropriate.

Luckily, both she and Wyatt had graduated years ago, now the stars of Aethelgard were others altogether.

Otherwise, who knows what kind of storm it might have stirred.

After surveying the surroundings to see nobody noticing their corner.

Serena turned back and fiercely glared at Una, "Never. Never before, never in the future, alright?"

"Haha..."

Returning an enigmatic smile, Una remained noncommittal, "Stubborn as a dead duck, let’s see how long you can keep it up."

As she finished speaking.

Both their phones buzzed lightly.

Meanwhile, exclaims rose one after another in the cafeteria.

Serena lowered her head.

Glancing at the push notification on her phone screen.

Seeing the title, Serena’s heart skipped a beat, her gaze frozen.