Predestined Marriage

Jessica glanced at them up and down quietly, as if she was watching a play.

Molly was young. Since she was Carl's cousin, her peers, both boys and girls, honored her. Therefore, she had many friends.

Her friends were well-off and they had grown up in upper class. Weighing the pros and cons and calculating the gain were two required courses for them. But they were always irritable because they were young with little experience.

Christopher was different from those irritable boys. He was reserved, calm, and tolerant, as if everything was under his control.

He had the charm of a mature man precipitated from time, which was different from boys at Molly’s age.

At the same time, Christopher had the shrewdness that a businessman should have.

Gentleness and shrewdness, two contradictory characteristics, were displayed by Christopher in a very harmonious manner.

Molly didn't like Christopher because he had chased after Jessica's clout. But she didn't hate him.

No one would hate a handsome gentleman.

Christopher was the kind of man who would fascinate young girls, and that was human nature.

calmed down a lot. She had just, as most of the other girls, felt the charm of Christopher, but there was nothing to

even calmer and her tone was natural, “I came here to perform. You might

front of Jessica and Christopher were almost empty, so they must have stayed here for a long

about making a career out of it?”

and shrugged, “It's just

she added, “I prefer to look

without saying

seemed to be interested in the band, and asked seriously,

had learnt it when I was

shining as she talked about

that she did not know much about her agent, and looked at

about learning to play drum when she was a child. He didn’t humor him, and his usual shrewdness was nowhere

trick was effective. She talked even more

sneered at him inwardly. A polished scoundrel was probably

engaged in

and sent him a message, “Come over as soon as the party is over. Your cousin is about to be cheated by a bad