Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 44: Exposed

Harlan opened the personnel file of Jumei Shopping Center in doubt, and his expression changed instantly when his eyes rested on the first page, no less shocked than when I first saw it.

Natalie, who was by his side, noticed Harlan's unusual behaviour, said 'What's wrong?' and also looked at the personnel file in Harlan's hand. After just one glance, she was so shocked that she covered her mouth and then stared at me with wide eyes. After a while, she said, 'Mom, the CEO of Jumei Shopping Center is your girlfriend! ... This is too exaggerated, or am I hallucinating?'

Harlan put down the personnel file in his hands and looked at me with the same expression as Natalie and said, 'Lucas, what's going on? You never mentioned it before. Renee is the CEO of Jumei!'

'I also learned about it this morning when I read the personnel file. I feel the same as you guys, I also think it's my own hallucination!'

Harlan and Natalie glanced at each other, still with shocked expressions, and asked me, 'How did you meet her anyway?'

'Do you remember when I told you that the old house I used to live in was bought by a woman in a fancy car?'

'Yes, you told me.'

'Renee bought it, and then we naturally got to know each other.'

Harlan nodded, as if suddenly he had thought of the crux of the matter, and asked with a piercing look in his eyes, 'In less than a month, she became your girlfriend?'

I tried to hide it, 'There's nothing I can do about it, when fate strikes, you can't stop it!'

'The CEO of Zhuomei was wooed by you, Lucas, in less than a month? No novel plot develops this quickly!'

Natalie agreed, saying, 'At first, when you introduced Renee to us, we all thought you had been dating her for a long time, just hiding it from us. We never imagined that you had only known each other for less than a month. Lucas, your skills at picking up girls are truly at their peak!'

'Can you two stop talking to me like this,' I said, glaring at the two of them angrily.

Harlan and Natalie asked in unison, 'Then just be honest with us, what exactly is your relationship with Renee?'

In fact, the moment I showed Harlan Renee's file, I already knew that today the truth would come out. Who would believe that the CEO of a top shopping mall would fall in love with an unreliable little clerk? If anyone is to blame, it's life being so damn crazy. Why did Renee happen to be the CEO of Charmacy? Even if she were the daughter of a township enterprise boss or had sprung from a rock, I wouldn't be facing this embarrassing situation of being exposed.

After a while, I impatiently said to Harlan and Natalie, who were staring at me, 'Don't look at me like I'm a criminal. I'll confess, okay?'

'Hurry up, if you don't confess, we'll torture you,' Natalie said, holding up her pink fists at me.

I lay back on the chair, finally looking at the ceiling, and said with a sense of desperation, 'She's not my girlfriend. That day at your wedding, I felt quite empty inside, so I called Renee and lied that I was inviting her to dinner, tricking her into coming to your wedding banquet. Then I met Brittany, and in a moment of heat, I said she was my girlfriend. Then I kept covering up the lie with more lies, until everyone really thought she was my girlfriend...'

'Oh my God! Lucas, does this mean you still can't get Brittany out of your mind?' Natalie asked me in shock, regardless of the crowded restaurant.

'Harlan, give your wife a sedative, she's so noisy!' I said in the calmest tone possible.