Chapter 200
After Hesper spilled the beans, Xavier fell quiet.
Hesper wasn’t a shy person. If it wasn’t something that she absolutely couldn’t talk about, she wouldn’t have hidden it. They were just normal people, different from the Duvals, who were important. In comparison, they were just ants.
Xavier remembered that Hesper didn’t come from the best background, so she must have gone through à lot living with the Duvals.
“This is a really rare chance.”
After a long pause, Xavier finally sighed and waved his hand to let Hesper leave.
Hesper walked out of the office and looked at the campus grounds, then sighed too.
She knew how rare the opportunity was, but after having an intense struggle with herself, she chose to give it up. She was too naive in the past. Now that she had come so far, there was no point chasing. dreams and hobbies.
Where would she find the time and energy for those things?
The right opportunity had come at the wrong time. Life wasn’t perfect; that was reality.
It was late autumn and the leaves had fallen. Stepping on them made a crunching sound. Hesper walked for a long time with her head hung low before suddenly seeing a pair of feet in front of her.
“Hesper.”
Hesper looked up and was surprised to see Nathaniel smiling at her.
“You’re back?”
Nathaniel looked at Hesper, who was before him. She seemed to have lost weight but was as mesmerizing as ever. She looked like a work of art under the evening sun, a painting worth millions.
Nathaniel had not mentioned that he was coming back, just like how he never mentioned that he was going abroad, so Hesper was shocked by his sudden appearance. The two friends were reunited.
“Let’s talk while we walk. We can get some local food,” Nathaniel raised his hand and Hesper saw that he was holding a paper bag, though she didn’t know what was inside. “Here’s a present from Julian to you. I don’t know what’s inside it.”
Hesper couldn’t guess what he might give her. She teased Nathaniel, saying, “lan gave me a present, but you came empty-handed?”
Nathaniel shook his head. “I did. But do you remember that I mentioned a surprise? I came here for that.”
They both got into the car. Nathaniel never liked people following him around, so he always drove. Hesper got into the passenger’s seat and opened the heavy paper bag.
She was utterly surprised by its content. It was a box of medication.
Hesper opened it, and there was a note in Julian’s handwriting.
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