Chapter 28: Get Along Well

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Except Reyes hadn’t expected that when he finally had the ability to protect Toya and the confidence to pursue her, she would become his father’s fiancée and his stepmother.

Toya did not notice Reyes’s constantly changing emotions. She now found Reyes more pleasing to the eye and spoke more.

“Although our school didn’t explicitly forbid students from smoking, that was still the first day of school. Furthermore, it’s at the school gate. It’s not good for you to smoke so openly and not listen to our advice.”

Reyes came back to his senses. The person he had the deepest impression of that day was still Toya. As for why he had been blacklisted by the student union, he didn’t have a deep impression of it. Now that Toya mentioned it, he remembered something. “So it’s this matter. You saw me then, right?”

Otherwise, how would she know that he smoked?

Moreover, she was indeed present that day, even though she did not look at him when he looked over.

“That’s right.” Toya nodded. “As the vice president, it’s normal to inspect the members’ work, right?”

She frowned slightly and pondered Reyes’s words in confusion.

“You saw me too?”

Not only did he see her, but he also fell in love with her at first sight.

Reyes hummed softly.

“Because you’re very beautiful.”

Toya was stunned for a moment. Then, she smiled. “Thank you.”

One praised her sincerely while the other thanked him politely.

It was a rare harmonious atmosphere.

“The night before yesterday, at your house, you didn’t seem very happy to see me. I thought you hated me.”

Reyes opened his mouth and smiled helplessly. “No, I was just— too shocked. It’s not that I hate you.”

He clearly loved her to death, so how could he hate her?

To have one less person who hated her in the world was worth it to be happy over. Toya’s indifferent expression disappeared. She looked at Reyes and said seriously, “Since you don’t hate me, I don’t hate you either. Let’s get along well in the future?”

Reyes said forlornly, “You hate me?”

Toya saw his pitiful expression again and suddenly felt guilty and puzzled.

“I already said that if you don’t hate me, I won’t hate you anymore.”

“But I’ve never hated you.” Even though it was an argument with Toya, Reyes had always controlled his tone. There was no harshness or arrogance in it. He sounded like a puppy that had been wronged because it hadn’t been stroked.

Toya had always been amenable to reason. When Reyes’s imposing manner weakened, so did hers.

“Does being hated make you feel bad?” Toya asked a little cautiously this time.

“Yes, just like how you will hate me when you’re hated. I’ll be very sad when I’m hated by someone I don’t hate.” This kind of sadness was not fake by Reyes, but usually, he would not easily reveal this kind of emotion.

Toya looked at him quietly. She didn’t think she had to put up with Reyes just because he was sad. She had always been a self-centered little Princess Madison.

“Then just be sad.” Anyway, he was only cute when he was sad.

Reyes choked and felt even more aggrieved.

Toya paused and changed the topic. “These things aren’t important. The important thing is that if you apply for the Student Union now, they won’t accept you.”

Other than publicly smoking and ignoring the Student Union members on the first day of school, he had skipped classes, fought, and drank, and caused trouble everywhere. The Student Union could not interfere, the teachers could not interfere, and even the principal only wanted him to “reflect on his mistakes” in the office. After he faced the wall, he would do whatever he wanted.

Why would the Student Union accept him? Because he was handsome?

Although everyone knew that the Student Union was a superficial and realistic organization and people like her could be the Vice President of the Student Union, this superficiality and reality were not in some strange places.

Looks alone were not enough for him to be accepted into the Student Union.

Reyes said, “Even if there’s a vice president’s recommendation, they won’t accept me?”

“…I joined the Student Union through the back door.” Toya felt mixed emotions. Why was Reyes doing this?

She was already an anomaly in the Student Union, but he still wanted to use her as a connection and be an anomaly in the Student Union with her?

Reyes nodded to show that he understood. “This means that connections can let me enter the Student Union.”

Toya refused. “I won’t recommend you.”

“…Isn’t that a little too heartless? Didn’t you just say that we should get along well in the future?”

“Getting along well doesn’t mean that I’m going to recommend you to the Student Union.”

Reyes felt like he was being brushed off. “So what is getting along well?” he asked persistently.

Toya thought about it. “It’s that although I’m a little tired of you now, I’ll still talk to you nicely.”

Reyes felt frustrated. He felt that this woman, Toya, was really too difficult to deal with.

Their relationship had clearly improved a lot, but she would still say things like “I’m a little tired of you now.”

She was still the high and mighty princess..