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

leave now, how will you

Charles to notice that she had secretly taken

only took your phone for repair because I saw it was broken. It might take some time to fix. You’re not

and offered it to her. “Why would I be mad

and mumbled, “I’m sorry for meddling

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

two continued their conversation during dinner, getting to know each

and Winona spent more time together in the fishing village.

themselves dressed in the same traditional fishing village

the fact that this was the uniform attire of the fishing village, people might have

teased and frolicked, just like

and she chased after

on the beach, panting heavily, and feeling utterly

at the panting girl beside him, a flicker of unusual

at the temples of the girl next to him was dampened by the seawater, sticking to her

suddenly asked, “Winona, have you ever considered being in a

from our village. She and her boyfriend are indeed

longing for love, Charles abruptly stood up, blocking the sunlight in front of

“Huh?”

blew, lightly caressing their cheeks, while the waves lapped against

found that many aspects of Winona were similar to Gwendolyn.

protect the obsession that had lasted for those ten

heart inexplicably

never really thought about being in a relationship… I’m sorry.”

pained expression. “I’m unfortunate, and I can’t bring this misfortune upon you. I’m truly

a flurry, leaving him with nothing but her retreating figure.

her panicked expression, Charles gave a bitter smile

looking flushed. “Take a look. It seems like a lot of people

call logs from

Are you okay?