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EverleeHart.exe stopped working.
Her brain wires overheated. They exploded into nothingness. Her head became hollow, almost completely blank. She neither registered Avery's face nor the surroundings. All of her senses shut down.
She became an empty shell.
"Eve?"
"I-I—" Eve stammered. She fluttered her eyes and shook her head, an attempt to get her mind running. Where was she again? What date was it? She hadn't transmigrated into another universe, had she?
She took a deep breath, focusing on the current moment. Her sight slowly cleared up. She knitted her eyebrows. "What did you say again, Mrs. Hathaway?"
Avery took a step back. She crossed her arms over her chest. She debated between a friendly expression or a firm one. In the end, she opted for the former and smiled wide. "How would you like to have the chance to date my son?"
'Is my hearing clogged?' Eve wondered. Did she forget how to English? That question sounded complex. Temptation prodded her to clean out her ears.
"Eve," Avery tried again. She set her fingertips on the desk. She leaned forward, capturing Eve's entire vision. "I will create a dating website for my son. For it to be a dating site, I am in need of females for him to meet. My goal is for him to discover what romantic love is. I think you're the right person to teach him that."
The secretary half-laughed and half-scoffed. Her? Teach her boss? About L-O-V-E?
"With all due respect, madam," Eve began to reply. She stared at the desk. "I don't think I have the qualifications to do that. I have zero dating experience."
That sounded like a reasonable excuse, right?
"Perfect!"
"P-P-Perfect?" She gaped, snapping her head up. "What do you mean by that?"
"Eve, are you a hopeless romantic?" Avery asked. She propped one butt cheek on the desk and folded her hands on her thigh. Her smile grew into a mischievous one. "When you were a kid, did you ever dream about your future wedding? Have you read, seen and listened to countless romance stories? Did they make your heart skip a beat? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be the female lead?"
'That was oddly specific,' Eve remarked in her mind, 'Still, they hit the right spots. The only thing missing was for her to ask if I had been single all my life because of fictional men.'
"Don't a lot of people?" She chose to reply. If that would be the only reason, plenty of women had those attributes. They also had better backgrounds than her.
"Then, why not take this chance? Yan could be the ideal male lead," Avery said. She explained her points by counting her fingers. "He has the looks. He has the brains. He has the ambition. He has the power. He has money. He has charisma. Why not try to date him?"
One reason after another flooded Eve's mind. In the span of five years, one fact remained true. Ambryan Hathaway placed the business above all others. His tone would always be harsh. He would show no mercy, breaking any hope for pleads.
She understood that it was for work but…
… did he really have to publicly sue an actress for breach of contract because she got pregnant? Or maybe it was because she was Eve's friend that she held some bias?
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