In her third week back at Ravenwood University, Dolly felt like everything was going on as usual – classes, studying, and when she could, she would go to Hurricane Limited to do her original work, only her workload was reduced due to the tight schedule.
She often sees a serious Jayden wearing glasses on campus, and Jayden will touch his glasses and smile at her every time.
University life is, for the most part, very comfortable, and this greeting, which seemed normal to the two, naturally became the stuff of gossip in the eyes of a group of free ‘loose’ students.
“That Dolly, isn’t that the president’s wife of the Kirkland Group?”
“Huh? I thought she came from studying abroad!”
“What study abroad, but just dropped out of school to come back in the year.”
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Gossip at a major university like Ravenwood University is actually like flotsam in the wind outside. Dolly originally didn’t care much about it, but as more people talked, the rumor ran through her ears like a thunderclap.
She has never forgotten Jayden’s confession when he left, he cured her, this matter has always been a knot in her heart, to Jayden she always had an unspeakable guilt.
She is not completely unaware of Jayden’s feelings, so in order to keep the rumors from spreading, she decided to actively distance herself from Jayden, so every time she saw him she walked away with her head down, and even changed her dress style to a low-key, bland, dark color.
Jayden soon understood what had happened, but he did not take any special action, but found the design classroom at the end of class and left a note on Dolly’s seat: “I’ll wait for you in the library until you come over – Jayden ”
With mixed feelings, Dolly folded the note carefully and put it in her jacket pocket.
She wanted to pretend she didn’t see it, but thought that in a foreign country like that, seriously ill, she had no one by her side, only Jayden remained with her.
When she was misunderstood, it was also Jayden who said he was willing to go with her. Everything cannot be chosen to escape, but always have to find a way to solve it, and facing it is the best way to solve it.
The evening sun was like a colorful gradient of gouache as Dolly finally arrived at the library just as the sun was about to set.
Jayden had been sitting in his seat for a while, and when he saw her coming, his warm voice was the same as ever: “I knew you’d come.”
“I was thinking that some things have to be worked out eventually.” Dolly pulled back her chair, “Jayden, I’m grateful that you cured me back then, but we still need to keep our distance at school now, and some avoidable meetings can be …”
Jayden turned his head away as he curbed his smile, “You’re very reluctant to see me.”
Dolly blurted out, “It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t.”
“So you know all about it, you haven’t forgotten what I told you.”
“I’m married to Brayden.”
Jayden suddenly burst out laughing, “You probably misunderstood, am I not your friend now?”
Dolly defended, “Of course we’re friends, but the gossip is really stifling.”
“If you ignore me because of that, tomorrow I can stop all this that you don’t want to hear, so that should be considered a qualified friend.”
Dolly finally blossomed so many days since the only one sincere smile, she nodded heavily, the glass reflected her beautiful back, as if in Jayden’s heart to paint a heavy stroke.
Dolly didn’t expect the news to reach Brayden’s ears so quickly.
This time is just Brayden’s busiest time, hearing the news Brayden can not help but a trace of anxiety inside, inside or choose to unconditionally trust Dolly.
Still unable to let go of the work at hand, he dialed a familiar number and a few minutes later Leon broke in and asked him in a loud voice, “Boss, what can I do for you?”
“Find out what happened recently with a man named Jayden and your sister-in-law, and also find out, what people spread the news.”
Leon’s heart thumped and missed a beat, his heart screamed a bad, Brayden saw him not reply half a day, felt very strange: “What’s the problem?”
“No … of course not, I … I’ll go first.” Leon stammered in reply to him, not to mention daring to look up at him.
Brayden was full of doubts, before he could ask him carefully, he saw Leon’s back hurrying away.
“Huh? No way, you’re telling the truth?!” Skyler couldn’t believe his ears, “Could it be that you’re mistaken, how could it be?”
“How can we be wrong, the man we met that day, today the boss wants me to check the latest news about him and his sister-in-law.” Leon hugged his arms, “If only we had told him that day, what now?”
Skyler stroked Leon’s shoulder, “I trust Dolly’s character, she wouldn’t do anything to hurt Brayden.”
“I also know that the two of them have deep feelings, but how to explain such rumors? As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves …” Leon scratched his head with a pained look, “Ah, I actually betrayed the trust of the boss!”
“Still no, we definitely can’t add fuel to the fire, Brayden is already busy in the last few days, if he knows about these unexplained things, won’t his mood get even more messed up?” Skyler sighed silently.
Leon felt that he had never made a more difficult decision in his life than now, first, to tell the boss the truth of what he saw, and second, that he was following Brayden in order to be by his side to be able to relieve him of his worries and deal with difficulties, not to deliberately add fuel to the fire when he was troubled.
This time, Brayden did not receive any so-called insider information about this from Leon, he knew Leon never said one thing, no then not to say, he told himself to trust Dolly, but the more the wind outside, the more calm Leon’s side, the more his restless heart is restless.
He took some free time to go back to his parents’ place to see how Orion was growing. The little child was growing day by day, red all over when he was born, but now he had grown white and fat, with short arms like lotus roots, very cute.
“Orion, call daddy, call daddy, okay?” Brayden bent over and attached himself to the side of the cradle to coax the baby, who babbled as he looked at the little elephant doll hanging from the cradle.
Brayden’s mother then walked in with the rib soup, “Where would such a young child call out? Come on, you’re too tired from work, come and have some soup.”
Before Brayden could reach out and take the soup, the small child who was babbling before suddenly started to cry.