Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
“Are you Max? Yelena has mentioned you on several occasions. You’re pretty famous in our university.”
“I know who you are; you’re an infamous thug.”
Max had always been sharp-tongued, and he was especially displeased when he saw the man’s arm around Yelena’s shoulders.
Yelena glared at him.
“Who are you calling a thug?”
“What’s wrong? Are you unhappy because I called your lover a thug?”
Max snorted.
“You told me you liked me a few days ago and wanted to be my girlfriend, yet you’re making out with another man here. You’re pretty interesting.”
As he doubted Yelena’s sincerity, she was so anxious that she was on the brink of breaking into tears. Nonetheless, after pondering for a moment, she realized Max was rarely so agitated. Is it possible that he’s jealous after seeing me with another man? Does he like me?
Upon realizing the truth, she felt a sense of confidence rising within her.
“Max, regardless of whom I’m seeing, what does it have anything to do with you?”
“Fine, then. Yelena, I don’t care whom you fall in love with, but do you know who he is? He’s an infamous scoundrel in our university. Are you sure you want to be with him?”
Then, Max swept a dispassionate glance over them.
“You’ve lost my respect.”
Yelena felt aggrieved. Just as she was ready to refute him, Max suddenly turned around and left as he wasn’t willing to hear what she had to say.
“Max!”
Max entered the university without sparing her another glance.
“What kind of a man have you fallen in love with? He doesn’t respect you at all, and he’s conceited. I think you’d better give up.”
The man lifted his head and blew his fringe away from his face, looking indeed like a thug. However, his gesture didn’t make him look indecent. Instead, he appeared somewhat attractive.
“Why did you agitate him just now, Finn?”
Yelena was frustrated. It was because of Finn’s provocation that Max became furious and left.
to attend. Tell my mom that I didn’t play truant. I’m going in now.”
The moment he finished speaking, he entered the university as well.
Suddenly, Yelena turned around and saw Elspeth and Callum not far away. After becoming startled for a moment, she asked,
“Why are you here?”
Hearing that, Elspeth couldn’t help breaking into laughter.
“If we weren’t here, we wouldn’t have witnessed such a funny misunderstanding.”
“Did you guys hear everything?”
Yelena hung her head low with a red face. It seemed that they had also seen her using Finn to lie to Max.
“Max is a hot-tempered and sharp-tongued guy, so you should spend some time trying to change him for the better. If you want to get together with him, you have to work on that.”
Elspeth winked at her as a form of encouragement.
Yelena nodded.
“I got it, Elspeth. Anyway, there’s something I need you to help me with.”
“What’s the matter?”
A bashful Yelena replied,
“The thing is… it’ll be my 18th birthday next Wednesday. I’d like to invite Max to my birthday party. Can you make him attend?”
“Why don’t you personally invite him?”
Yelena let out a sigh.
“I’ve tried approaching him many times, but he isn’t willing to talk to me. In that case, how am I supposed to invite him to my birthday party? Please come up with a way to make him attend my birthday party without him knowing anything about it.”
Elspeth agreed to it.
After Yelena was gone, Elspeth and Callum returned to the Winthrop Group.
On the same day, Callum held a meeting that all the managers attended. During the meeting, he directly appointed Elspeth as the vice president.
Alaina was the first to object to the appointment. Elspeth hadn’t seen Alaina for a few days, and she realized the latter had become even more harsh and unkind.
has never been a vice president. Moreover, she hasn’t even joined the company and doesn’t have a proper job title. If you rashly make her the vice president, it’ll break the rules.”
Elspeth had already expected Alaina to say such things, so she refuted with a smile,
“Don’t you think there’s something wrong with what you’ve said, Miss Sullivan? Weren’t you directly promoted to a director when you were just an ordinary employee back then? Oh, I’ve almost forgotten that you were just lucky. You weren’t even promoted because you had the talent. Therefore, it’s only normal that you can’t see sense.”
When Alaina heard her mockery, her face turned livid in an instant.
“Don’t you think you’ve crossed the line, Elspeth? Are you saying that I wasn’t talented enough to get promoted? 1 graduated from the best university in Damoria as a design major. I’m very much qualified to be the director of the Design Department.”
Alaina was confident whenever she brought up her academic qualifications. She was a bright person, so what was wrong with her becoming the director of the Design Department?
“If we talk about academic qualification, everyone here in this room graduated from top universities. These two directors sitting in front of you are top students from Konig University. As for the experience, you don’t have presentable work up to this point. I saw your Christmas special edition jewelry. There’s a reason the sales for that were mediocre.”
Everything Elspeth said was like a sword stabbing into Alaina’s heart, making the confidence that was left in her shatter instantly. Alaina suddenly felt as though she was just a clown, showing off her immature skills in front of experts and embarrassing herself.
“Miss Lynwood, we’re all colleagues. How can you say that to me?”
With her innocent look, all the male colleagues around her relent the moment she cried.
Since reasoning couldn’t work, Alaina wanted to play the victim but was exposed mercilessly by Elspeth.
“You start crying whenever you can’t win an argument. Miss Sullivan, is that all you learned in Winthrop Group?”
At that moment, Alaina’s tears were hanging from the corners of her eyes. It didn’t seem right to let them fall or wipe them off, so they were left hanging awkwardly there.
“Enough. There’s no need to argue anymore. I’m the one who decided on this. Does anyone else here have any second opinion?”
After looking at the conflict between Alaina and Elspeth, Callum cleared his throat and looked at Elspeth with a resigned and affectionate gaze. Although he knew at Elspeth wouldn’t put herself at a disadvantage, the things she said would surely upset Alaina for quite some time.
Just then, Edmund sluggishly raised his hands.
“I do.”
Elspeth thought that he was going to stir up trouble again, but his following sentence shocked everyone.
“I want to take a few months off for a little distraction. I’ll pass the vice president position to Elspeth for the time being.”
With Callum’s arrangement and Edmund ‘vacating’ the position, there was nothing for Alaina to say anymore. Resentfully, she bore into Elspeth like a monster.
“It’s settled then,”
Callum gave the ultimate word, finalizing the decision on this matter.
After the meeting, Alaina went to Elspeth with a humble smile on her face.
