Since She Met Lucian

It was a quiet evening at SJ Garden. Shelly was wearing a beautiful, pink dress adorned with intricate lace. For the past half hour, she had been busy arranging a candlelight dinner for her and Lucian.

"Lily, get me the roses I had delivered from France!" she shouted, not looking up from the table.

Lily was standing close by.

There was something going in her mind as she stared coldly at Shelly.

Looking up, Shelly noticed that Lily had not moved an inch. "Hey! Are you deaf? Do I need to tell you twice? Bring me the roses that came in today!" Shelly shouted impatiently, glaringly angrily at Lily.

"Ah.. Y-yes, I'll be right back!" Lilt stammered, finally coming back to her senses. Sighing begrudgingly to herself, she went downstairs to get the roses.

Ever since Shelly moved in at SJ Garden, Lily was shouted at nearly every day. At some point, she already wanted to quit her job. However, Lucian had told her that he was working on getting Amelia back soon. That was enough reason for Lily to endure Shelly for the meantime and keep working at SJ Garden.

Lily was not a complainer. Even though Shelly constantly scolded her, she did not want to tell Lucian about it. After all, Lucian was already busy and preoccupied with work.

Since Shelly arrived, she had been sleeping in the guest room. With all her might, she tried to get closer to him -- calling him honey and generally being a loving wife. But no matter what she did, Lucian never smiled at her, nor did he respond to her with the same amount of endearment.

Although the villa had gotten much livelier, it was really far from pleasant. 'It's as if Shelly's doing a solo performance around here,' Lily thought to herself resentfully.

Even Lucian tended to avoid Shelly as much as he could. Every night, he would intentionally come back from work after dinner so that he wouldn't have to eat with Shelly. Eventually, Shelly started making dinner at a later time. Lucian had no choice then but to eat outside just so that he could spend as little time as possible with Shelly, making her incredibly sad and disappointed.

'When will this woman realize that things will never go her way if she forces it too much?' Lily thought. The more Lucian rejected her, the more Shelly pushed even harder, trying everything she could possibly think of to be closer to him.

Now she even bought a bouquet of French roses to surprise Lucian.

With a cold glare, Lily couldn't help but think that the flowers might appall Lucian more than it would surprise him.

"Miss Shelly, it's almost time for dinner," Lily said, handing the roses to Shelly, "I have to go prepare. Call me if you need anything else."

Turning around, Shelly looked at Lily in indignation. "Excuse me? How many times have I told you? I'm Lucian's wife now! You should address me as Mrs. Shelly!"

"I..." Lily stammered. But in her heart, she was screaming, 'Mrs. Amelia is the real wife of Mr. Lucian!'

"And what exactly were you about to say just now?" Crossing her arms over her chest, Shelly glared unhappily at Lily.

Lily answered quickly. At this point, she just

With that, Lily did not say

home just in time for

are back." 'Did he come back home early for the

ready?" Lucian asked, loosening his

Dinner is ready!" Lily hurriedly said. It had been quite a long time

and looked around. "Where is Miss Shelly?"

'If Shelly's plan worked and Lucian was moved by her gesture, Mrs. Amelia might never

wrong?" Lucian asked, glancing up the staircase with

you so that you wouldn't get sick as

his voice and expression.

up an excuse to avoid

can

up a bit, Lucian sat at the dinner table and quietly enjoyed his

was a smile of satisfaction on her face. Whenever she made dinner, Shelly would always find a way to insult or scold her. It came to a point that Lily would cook so many different

can I ask you something?"

you want to ask me?" he inquired as he

the courage she had.

eyes widened slightly in surprise when he heard Lily's question. After taking a sip of his soup, he looked

I'll finally be able to see Mrs. Amelia again," Lily said as she burst into a delighted

too loud, Lily," Lucian

making her voice softer. Her cheeks flushed pink as she tried to restrain her smile. "Once Mrs. Amelia comes back, you will finally be one, big happy family with your baby! I'm so

this, Lucian couldn't

and happy atmosphere was ruined the

into the kitchen and got a

I didn't come downstairs, I would have never known that dinner was ready. What did you want to happen? Did you want me

went pale. It was not because she was afraid of Shelly, but rather she felt ashamed

quick glance at Lily's direction, Lucian knew that Lily was up to something. "I was the one who told Lily to get dinner started," he said with

expect that Lucian would say something like that. "Lucian, we're husband

appetite

can't even have a decent

words, Shelly immediately changed her mood. She walked over to Lucian and put her arms around his shoulders. "I was preparing a surprise for you the entire day," she whispered beside his ear, "Don't be