Julian’s Stand-In Wife

He looked like a miser through and through.

Sue didn’t like him one bit.

“He is definitely not my ex-student!” she cried, aghast.

To make things clear, Sue called her ex-student to ask about his impression of Cecilia.

To her surprise…

“My apologies, Mrs. Chimmery. I didn’t manage to make it to the blind date because I was caught up with something. I’m still stuck in an academic conference right now. I wanted to call you after it ended, but I didn’t expect…”

Sue knew about the academic conference he was talking about. It was an international meeting that only people of relative academic accomplishments could attend.

No one could decide how long the meeting went on for. Everyone at the meeting worked in the same industry, and that was likely the reason that the meeting dragged on longer than expected.

“It’s not your fault,” Sue said understandingly. She didn’t tell him about Cecilia going for the blind date today, and hung up after some small talk.

magnanimous in most

to let go of things

sensible and reasonable. Thus, she never suspected that Sue would

call and turned to Cecilia, her face turning cold. “What’s with that café? They have such good reviews, but they managed to mess up

the man in the Cecilia’s photo. He

expressed her opinion,

too quick to judge!” she

were clearly a perfect match. How could her mother judge him as being petty simply

dialed the number of

exactly is my daughter’s blind date? He’s definitely not

Cecilia was dumbfounded.

highly respected in society because many well-known lecturers and professors in

real teacher, she spoke with the air of

she was a fully-grown adult. She had a good time chatting with

interrupt Sue. Otherwise, she would be reprimanded for

or Cecilia, someone much more impolite was about