The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 636 Value Girls Over Boys

Nico was stunned. “Why would you think that? I may respect Cedrick and Gwendolyn, but marriage is a big thing. Of course I thought it through carefully before agreeing.”

Seeing how serious he was, Summer accepted his answer and continued with the next question. “Do you think there’s something different about me today, Nico?”

She wiped her tears away, blinked, and intentionally leaned her delicately made-up face toward him.

In response, Nico studied her for a while but failed to discern any differences. “Did you… become more of a crybaby than usual?”

Annoyed, Summer punched his shoulder relentlessly. “I knew I shouldn’t have asked you that question. You’re so dense! Can you not see the effort I put into my makeup?”

Nico was a well-trained man. Hence, his body was tough. Summer’s punches were nothing but tickles from his perspective. It didn’t hurt him at all.

Resignedly, he clutched Summer’s restless fist and rubbed her knuckles out of habit. “All right, stop messing around. Otherwise, your hand’s going to hurt

At least he still knows to care about my hands. Self-comfort was the only thing Summer could do when dealing with a man as dense as Nico.

Nico often wielded weapons, so he had calloused hands.

Meanwhile, Summer’s skin was soft and tender. He wasn’t light-handed, so he used the back of his hand to wipe her tears away. Unfortunately, he wasn’t skilled enough and accidentally ruined her eyeliner.

He stifled his laughter as he stared at his handiwork of turning Summer’s eyes into a panda’s. “Your tears ruined your makeup, Princess. Should I ask an officer to send you back to wash your face?”

“Ruined?” Summer swiftly removed the small mirror in her pocket and examined her countenance with it I spent hours putting on this makeup, yet it’s all messed up before Nico can even admire it properly!

was so devastated that she wanted to cry more. “My makeup’s wrecked, and you forgot you’re supposed to spend time with me! We’re about to be engaged, yet you can’t fulfill your promises! It doesn’t seem like you care about me at all. It’s not

ending her sentence, she turned around and left in

Nico. “Your partner seems heartbroken, Mr. Nico. Aren’t you

ordered, “You chase after her and help me send her back to the Jenson residence. If she wants

the officer before chasing after Summer.

twenty, she’s still acting like a kid. Am I sheltering her too much? Back

his lips as he recalled the issue of visiting Summer’s family

should contact her family as soon as possible. Despite having been

back to his office, Nico asked someone to investigate Summer’s family as

fulfill my promise to take Summer out for a fun trip due to work, I guess I’ll buy her a xylitol cake at night. Considering how much she likes sweet things, I think she’ll

Charles had almost finished settling minor affairs in Newton Group at noon. After that, he visited Harrick

the children with powdered nutritious milk. By the time Charles arrived, the children had finished guzzling down the

tiring for you to visit this place every day while Mr. and Mrs. Jenson

“I’m the children’s godfather, so this is what I should be doing. It’s not tiring at

Gwendolyn when the latter was younger.

at Harrick Villa, he would hug Zendaya for as

situation

no different from usual. However, Mr. Benny didn’t

be drinking more than

his appetite

the pink crib and picked up Benedict from the blue crib. “Have you measured his temperature? Is he sick?”

Benny seems to be in good spirits, so he’s probably fine. Maybe the rising weather temperature is negatively affecting his appetite. Besides, his appetite has

eyes and giggled. Indeed, the baby boy did seem to be in good shape. “All right, then. You should pay more attention to him. If the room temperature is too high, you should turn on the

Mr. Newton,” replied Zory.