Chapter 529: Barking Dog

"How did you know there were some stairs there?" Felice asked her while tying her long, black, curly hair into a comfortable blond.

Gabi shrugged in response. "I studied it. In case… I needed to escape some certain situations." Of course, she already researched every part of this building. She came prepared.

"You are peculiar. Aren't you the daughter of the late prime minister?"

"Yeah."

"I'm so sorry about what happened."

"It can't be helped. People die all the time." Gabi smiled. "You are… one of the graduates?" Right now, they are already walking in the garden, surrounded by the smell of roses and wet soil.

"Yeah."

Gabi nodded. In the previous life, Felice k*lled herself on the graduation celebration. No one really knows the reason why she did it. They just found her body on the terrace after the party. At that time, she was still alive but was soon declared brain dead three months after that incident. She stayed in a vegetative state for one year before she finally succumbed to her death. Gabi didn't take the time to investigate this incident before simply because it didn't concern her.

However, at the end of this year, Brent Enterprise, which was owned by Felice's family would win some international awards and become top in the corporate world. Few people know this, but the current chairman of Brent Enterprise is actually friends with her own grandfather. So, when the Ren Aesthetics started to fall, the Brent Family didn't hesitate to help them.

In the end, they also suffered and soon ended up just like the Ren Family.

That's right. Gabi saved this woman as payment for what happened in the past. "I heard my grandfather talked about you before," Felice said. "He said you graduated at nineteen and was a young genius."

"Really?"

"Yes. He also said you are a genius that would become the future prime minister of this country."

Interesting. Gabi smiled and lifted her head to look at the sky. Prime Minister, huh?

That was never one of her ambitions. Politics is just too complicated.

"You will not ask me why I was crying?"

"No," Gabi said. Silence followed her words.

"Would you believe me if I tell you now that you just saved my life?"

Gabi turned towards the woman. Now that she could see the woman's face, she thought Felice looked really beautiful. Not the seductive type of beauty, more like the innocent and quiet one. She had a really gentle and sad gaze which immediately reminded Gabi of herself in her previous life.

"Yes," she nodded. In response, Felice smiled at her.

"Can I invite you sometimes? For some tea? My grandfather would love to meet you."

"No problem." Gabi handed her a calling card.

"Ah? Alright… thanks. I uh… you look and don't act like the Gabi from the rumors."

"Rumors?"

"They said that you always follow Alfons around. You are timid and didn't like talking to other people. There are a few harsh rumors out there too."

"Ah."

"I don't think you are like that. You look confident."

Gabi nodded. In her previous life, there were rumors she was actually in love with Alfons and that was the reason why Harry divorced her. There were also rumors that the reason Alfons was single was that she was trying to sabotage her relationship. "Thank you."

"Then… uh… are you still going back to the party?"

"No. How about you?"

"No. I look like a mess. People will only laugh at me."

"People?"

"My classmates."

"Why would they laugh at you?"

"You don't really know why?" Felice asked. "Ah, sorry. I forgot you don't attend gatherings and galas. Anyway, it is just because I got here because of a scholarship. My family could pay for the expensive tuition, but our influence is not enough to get me in. As you know, this university only accepts a maximum of thirty students per class. It's not just luck and grades, influence too. And the Brent Family never has that kind of influence."

So, those people treated her badly because of this? Wait, was this the reason for the Brent Family's sudden rise? Felice's suic*de must have triggered the family! "So, they bullied you?"

"Bullied? I don't know about that."

"…" What does she mean by that?

"I am our class' servant."

"And you didn't retaliate?"

"Can I really retaliate against a minister's daughter? Against a billionaire's son?"

Gabi said nothing. As someone who grew up homeschooled all her life, she didn't have the chance to witness this kind of stuff. Without her past life, Gabi would have been someone ignorant about all this.

"Sorry, I am blabbering. Please don't mind me."

"It's alright," Gabi said. "The world isn't an easy place to live in. Especially for people like us."

A sigh escaped Felice's lips. "Hey, I'm hungry. Do you want to eat somewhere?"

"Sure."

"Uh… that man following us…"

"My secretary."

"You have your own secretary?"

"Yes." Kasper had been following behind them since they left the building.

"And he is kinda like a bodyguard too?"

"Something like that."

"Then… should we go to a restaurant somewhere?"

Gabi looked at Kasper, who was about five meters away from them. The man immediately approached them. "Miss?"

"Please recommend a place to eat. Something… hot."

"There is some noddle shop a few blocks away. Shall I prepare the car?"

"Yes, we can't really walk with these heels."

Kasper nodded, and the three of them walked towards the parking lot. However, just as they waited for Kasper to get the car for them, a few people from the party also approached the parking lot.

"Isn't this Miss Brent?"

"And oh… Miss Sutton?"

The condescending voice made Gabi smiled inwardly. "Miss Quigly… so it's you," she responded. "I thought I heard someone's dog. It was actually human. How surprising."

The group of four people stopped walking and looked at her, surprised apparent in her eyes. Since this was actually the first time that Gabi acted like this, it was reasonable for them to be shocked.

"You — Are you calling me a dog?"

Gabi chuckled, then turned her attention to the car that was now in front of them.

"Hey, I am talking to you!"

Of course, Gabi ignored the woman. She started walking towards the car with Felice.

"Hey! Gabrielle! Are you deaf?"

"What the… did she just ignore me?" Lyle Quigly could only grit her teeth as she watched, Gabi got into the car with Felice.