Fated Marriage Spoiled by My Ice Billionaire novel Chapter 378

Chapter 378 Blast From the Past

She carefully dusted the photograph’s with a soft cloth

The once vibrant young man had grown so reserved, unable to revisit his past without a shadow of melancholy.

As she sort

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she came across photos from his university years.

ed to spot a picture of herself.

ough the nearby stack and pulled out one from her semester abroad at Angoria University.

n have a photo of her?

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elle spent a term at Angoria as an exchange student. From what she remembered, she didn’t know Damian at all.

ard of Damian–he was a quiet, top–performing student with a somewhat aloof demeanor. He also had a girlfriend, so people tried to get close.

friend back then was Ashley. Ashley was possessive and saw any girl near Damian as a threat, which kept most at a distance.

ian had mistaken that jealousy for affection and devotion. He’d found it flattering at the time.

sabelle looked at the photo–it was of her giving a speech on stage.

The girl in the picture held a microphone, looking both earnest and endearingly nervous.

She remembered it was soon after she arrived at Angoria. During a university–organized welcome event, she had been asked to emcee and give a short address. She’d been so nervous her words nearly tripped over each other.

A lot of people in the audience were watching, some waiting for her to falter.

Isabelle had entered university early, and not everyone welcomed an overachiever. Back then, she was a somewhat controversial figure.

Being new, she tried to keep a low profile but often found herself targeted

She clearly remembered wearing light stage makeup before going on, which drew attention from several guys. A group of girls didn’t appreciate it either. After the event, she was cornered in a campus alley by some of them, forced to wipe off the makeup, and threatened with humiliation.

A few guys in performance costumes intervened.

They were dressed for a military–themed stage play, in camouflage with tactical face paint.

They all looked similar–sarne build,‘ same height, identical uniforms and makeup.

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sabette never even got a clear look at his face.

She flipped the photo over

Damian always wrote a note on the back of his photos. She wondered what he’d written for fris one–what feeling it had captured

for him.

“Little rookie.”

Just three word

That was all

Little roo

Was

un of her?

ut snap a picture of it and send it to Damian. “What do you mean, ‘little rookie‘?”

in a hospital bed at that moment, undergoing preliminary checks. An IV was already in his arm. When he saw the uldn’t help but smile.

ect for privacy, please,” Damian replied.

you actually first see me?”

smiled and kept sifting through the photos underneath.

enough, there was a group shot from that day. She picked it up and examined it closely.

he didn’t look carefully, she really couldn’t tell which one was him.

he one who had said, “Don’t just stand there and take it–learn to push back“—that was him.

He was the one who had made sure she got home safely.

“Ding-”

Damian messaged back, “That was my first time seeing you, too.”

“You hid it well!”

Isabelle sent that, but Damian didn’t reply for a while.

Back then, Regina was traveling extensively and learned Isabelle was an exchange student at Damian’s university. She spe asked Damian to keep an eye out for her.

But Damian was always with Ashley in those days and didn’t have much bandwidth for isabelle.

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had someone from

Somehow,

so he paid a little more attention. That photo was taken for university publicity- riginally intending to forward it to Repma as a casual update

‘s event, which was how this one survive.

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And by chance, that night he and his friends were heading out and passed by just as Isabelle was being cornered.

Of course he didn’t just walk away.

To be safe, he had their driver drop her home first.

He helped her not because it was her, but because of a stubborn sense of fairness deep down.

So neither of them dwelled on it much at the time.

But Isabelle had it rough afterward.

Word of what happened reached Ashley.

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Isabelle didn’t know Ashley then, but from that point on, many of the subtle difficulties she faced were quietly orchestrated by her.

Ashley hid it well, too–when they formally met years later at a fashion week, she acted perfectly composed, as if they’d never crossed paths before.

Isabelle carefully set this photo aside, planning to find a place to display it.

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