The Legendary Man

Chapter 78 Beauties Are Good At Teasing Men

“Yup!” Jonathan nodded before exclaiming in surprise, “Why are you not in bed?”

“I’m not feeling sleepy yet.” Despite her words, Josephine’s bloodshot eyes betrayed her. It was clear as day that she wasn’t only sleepy, but very much so.

Then, she turned to Emmeline and asked, “How was the birthday party? Did you have fun?”

“I-It was fine.” Glancing at Jonathan guiltily, Emmeline bolted for the second floor as though the hounds of hell were nipping at her heels. “I’m tired, so I’m going to bed first!”

After saying that, she fled.

“What’s wrong with her?” Josephine eyed Jonathan with furrowed brows when she saw Emmeline’s unusual reaction. “Did you ride roughshod over her?”

“Of course not!” Jonathan wore an expression of exasperation. “She’s just a little down after having been disparaged by her friends at the birthday party.”

“But why do I feel as though she fears you?” Josephine perceptively noticed Emmeline’s atypical behavior.

Under usual circumstances, she would definitely be standing before him. When they came home today, however, she stood behind him tensely as though she didn’t dare stand in front of him!

“It must have been a trick of the light.” Jonathan changed the subject with a smile, saying, “It’s late, Darling. Why don’t we return to our room and sleep?”

“Who wants to sleep with you?” Josephine shot him a glare. “I waited up for you because I’ve got something to say to you!”

“What is it?” Sitting down beside her, Jonathan lightly inhaled the alluring scent that wafted off her.

got no time to prepare a gift for Grandpa and Grandma. You do it instead.” As Josephine said that, she took out a bank card from her pocket. “There’s a hundred thousand in this card. The

this money to rent a mansion at Edenic Heights, but since that’s unnecessary now, it’s perfect to buy a gift

time for the annual party?” The Smith Group’s annual party was a grand affair every year, so much so that those who didn’t know better would

family was only a third-rate family

the top-notch families. Every single descendant of the family had to prepare a gift for the patriarch and matriarch of the Smith family during the annual

be too cheap either because the members of the Smith family drew comparisons

more expensive would be esteemed, while whoever’s gift was cheap would be

every year aren’t all that expensive, usually just worth ten or twenty

money, so I’ll go and buy a gift tomorrow.” Jonathan

Josephine didn’t take the card. Instead, she turned to Jonathan and urged, “Just buy a gift of about a hundred thousand, but don’t say that I told you to buy it. Instead, say that you prepared

was her

target of criticism every time he accompanied me in attending the company’s annual party. But that’s inevitable since he’s the only person who married into the Smith family. A live-in son-in-law

Jonathan had no difficulty discerning her meaning when

Josephine usually treated him coldly, she would still look out for

just don’t want to be mocked alongside you!” With a cold expression on her face,

I think, I’ll

been married for such a long time?” Jonathan trailed after her, grinning from ear to ear. He stuffed the bank card into her pocket. “I don’t need this

possibility of him losing his job, Josephine abruptly remembered that

it, I would’ve

gave a cough, seized by the urge

that up? Wasn’t I just shooting myself in

that everything you told me back then was a lie?” Josephine’s brows knitted together when she noticed the man’s flustered state, and she doubted whether his claim of