Feeling embarrassed, Amelia let her eyes wander around, not daring to look back at Lucian.
The soft music continued to play in the background. The two of them did not share another word with each other. Amelia was busy tending to her own business. Meanwhile, Lucian was just quietly sitting on his chair, finishing up the cake that was on his plate.
A moment later, Lucian's phone rang. After giving a quick glance at the screen, he stood up and smiled at Amelia. "Take care of yourself. I'll come back tomorrow," he said.
"Mr. Lucian, please cherish the people you have in your life," Amelia said without hesitation.
With an even wider smile, Lucian walked up to Amelia and cupped her cheek in his hand. "Of course I will."
"What? No... I'm sorry. I was talking about Miss Shelly. She really loves you," she hurriedly corrected, taking a step back from Lucian.
Hearing this, Lucian's face darkened, his eyes completely fixated on Amelia. "I can't think about anyone else but you," he said in a clear voice, "I love you, and I know that you feel the same way. You can't lead me to believe otherwise."
When Amelia had spoken up, she was expecting that her relationship with Lucian would be less complicated. But it seemed as if they were just back to where they were before.
Meanwhile, in the Zhan Group... Vernon had been waiting in the reception room for quite some time now. When he saw Lucian arrive, he stood up immediately and looked at his former son-in-law.
"What can I do for you?" Lucian asked flatly, gesturing Vernon to sit down.
There was an uneasy look in Vernon's fa
not an accident. He intended to slap Amelia, and actually didn't regret doing so. It just so happened that he was now driven to a corner. At this moment, Jasper tried to sound as sincere as possible, even though he wasn't speaking the truth.
"A man should never hit a woman," Lucian said, gritting his teeth. Then, the corners of his lips curled up. "Eric, this man hit Amelia. I want you to give it back to him twice as much!"
Jasper looked at Lucian in disbelief. Quickly, he turned to look at Vernon, as if to ask for some help or for him to intervene.
But it seemed that Vernon looked just as helpless as he did. Vernon looked straight at Jasper's eyes, as if he was pleading Jasper to just go through with it so that they could finally get what they wanted.
Two men in black suit stepped towards Jasper, one on each side. In one quick movement, they raised their hands and hit Jasper's face without a moment's notice. Their hands fell hard on Jasper's face. For a while, he was stunned into quiet. And then the pain quickly seared through his entire head.
Groaning in pain, Jasper carefully touched his face, grimacing in pain. Both sides were completely swollen and the corner of his mouth was trickling with blood. Aside from the pain, Jasper felt immense anger towards Lucian. But since they still needed something from him, there was nothing he could do but swallow his emotions.
"Mr. Lucian, Jasper has already paid the price. How about that deal we were talking about?" Regardless of the injury on Jasper's face, Vernon was eager to know if Lucian would finally help them out.