The Ex and Her Riches

“You’ve worked hard today, so why don’t you stay for dinner tonight?”

Charles instinctively reached out and gently held Winona’s wrist. He stared at her meaningfully, causing Winona to feel a bit flustered, and her cheeks flushed red.

She managed to free her wrist from his grasp. With a coy glance, she lifted her skirt, turned, and playfully ran off into the distance.

Observing her retreating figure, a faint smile played at the corners of Charles’ lips as he followed her.

Under the guise of a life-saving favor, all of Winona’s advances became reasonable.

When dinner time arrived, Winona prepared a large table filled with exquisite dishes.

Since they were in a fishing village, the table featured an array of dishes made from fish. prepared in various ways.

As Charles surveyed the feast, he recalled Winona mentioning that she and her grandmother were all each other had. However, during his few days here, he had not yet seen the elderly woman, sparking his curiosity.

“Winona, doesn’t your grandmother live here?”

Winona, who was in the middle of serving food, paused for a moment. She replied, “My grandmother often treats sick fishermen in the village. If she hasn’t finished helping a family yet, she won’t return home. Is there a reason you want to meet her?”

With a sweet smile, Winona deliberately let her hair graze against Charles’ cheek as she served him food.

“I was just curious. It’s been a while since I last saw her.”

Winona changed the subject, asking, “Now that you’ve tasted my cooking, what kind of impression do you have of me?”

Charles smiled. “You’re as pure and innocent as Cinderella in the fairy tales.”

Winona blushed slightly at the compliment.

“You have a way with words. But you’ve been here for quite some time. Aren’t your family worried about you? What do you do for a living?”

In response to Winona’s probes, Charles replied, “You know, you took my phone for repairs

now, how will you

not expecting Charles to notice that she had secretly taken his

took your phone for repair because I saw it was broken. It might take some time to fix.

piece of fish and offered it to her.

head in guilt and mumbled, “I’m sorry for meddling with your phone without permission.”

head, his gaze warm. “There’s no need to apologize. You

continued their conversation during dinner, getting to know each other better.

and Winona spent more time together in the fishing village.

in the same traditional fishing village attire, standing

that this was the uniform attire of the fishing village, people

and frolicked, just like a young couple in love.

water at Winona, and she chased after him.

exhausted, lying on the beach, panting

a flicker of unusual emotion flashing

was dampened by the seawater, sticking to her face,

“Winona, have you ever

do envy Sera from our village. She and her boyfriend are indeed

for love, Charles abruptly stood up, blocking the sunlight in front of her. He looked at

“Huh?”

breeze gently blew, lightly caressing their cheeks, while the waves lapped

found that many aspects of Winona were similar to Gwendolyn. He really liked this feeling.

wanting to protect the obsession that had

her heart inexplicably racing, a blush gradually spreading across her face.

being in a relationship… I’m sorry.”

face revealed a pained expression. “I’m unfortunate, and I can’t bring this misfortune upon you. I’m truly sorry. Your phone

ran off in a flurry, leaving him with

expression, Charles gave a bitter smile and then

flushed. “Take a look. It seems like a lot of people have been calling

only to find countless call logs from

are you? Are you