President’s Twins: Buy One, Get One Free novel Chapter 201

After driving for more than thirty kilometers, Hayden and Joseph arrived at Sea View Town.

Hayden who was sitting on the passenger seat had dried tear stains hanging at the corner of her eyes and she had fallen into a deep sleep.

Joseph couldn’t bear to wake her up, but he also knew that they were running out of time and they needed to settle the things here and go back as soon as possible. Therefore, after parking the car, Joseph patted her on the shoulder.

“Hayden, here we are.”

Hayden opened her eyes. She stared at Joseph with her drowsy eyes for a while before she looked out of the window as if she was in a trance like a dream.

The sun was shining so brightly outside that it almost burned one’s skin.

Hayden took two steps forward after getting out of the car. Then, she was covered in the shade, and as soon as she looked up, she saw Joseph standing beside her with a black umbrella and asked her very casually.

“Where do you want to go?”

She regained her consciousness and pointed to the grocery shop in front of her.

“I want to go there. Alayna asked me to contact the owner of the grocery shop when I reach here. She said that it is the only shop in this town that has a public phone.”

Because of its landscape, Ningpo had never been affluent, especially Sea View Town. It was a poor and remote place as if the economy there never improved since the last century, and the residents there still practiced the living habit of the last century. In this town, it was common that fishermen squatting in the sun at the entrance of the shop, smoking homemade cigarettes.

After introducing herself to the owner of the grocery shop, the owner quickly remembered that Hayden was the woman she had spoken to before. He called his wife to watch the shop, and then took both Hayden and Joseph to look for Dante Bruke.

“Dante lives by the sea. He is a bit strange as he doesn’t interact with anyone in our town.”

“Is that so? Why do you say he is weird?

Hayden followed the owner of the shop, curiously asking him about the designer Dante.

“He doesn’t want to live the good life in the city and come back to this poor place to suffer. Isn’t it weird enough?”

Hearing her words, Hayden smiled, “Sir, many people are like that nowadays. It’s too noisy in the city, so it’s quite good to go back to the countryside to live.”

“I don’t know about this, but Dante still did many weird things before. Two years ago, the mayor of our town led us to develop a tourist resort by the sea, but he ruined the plan.”

“Ah? Why?”

“He said he didn’t want the tourists coming to the town and disturbing him, and he said the plan would pollute the town.”

“Even the mayor can’t do anything with him?”

“Dante is educated and he is the only one in our town who has studied overseas. Most people in our town listen to what he says, but we don’t understand much about the development of the tourist resort, so we just follow him.”

Sea View Town was a remote place and it was isolated from the outside world, so Dante who had gone overseas before was like an authority figure, and even the mayor of the town respected him.

However, Hayden frowned.

Wasn’t this Dante impeding the people of the town from improving their lives for his personal gain?

If tourism was developed in the town, the whole town would have a new look and its development would be accelerated immediately.

After walking for almost two hours, Hayden’s legs and stomach were trembling before she heard the owner of the shop speaking something.

“Here we are.”

The owner of the grocery shop pointed to a boarded-up house at the beach.

“Dante lives there. I won’t be going over there. If you two want to stay here overnight, you two can go back to the town. If you two can’t find the way to the town, just call me using the shop telephone and I’ll ask my daughter to come to pick you two up.”

“Okay, thanks boss.”

After thanking the owner of the shop, Hayden and Joseph both walked towards the unique house by the sea, one after the other.

The beach was not developed at all. There was no fine soft sandy beach, and the scenery there was not very nice. One could also smell the fishy smell of fish and shrimps in the sea breeze.

The blue and white boarded-up house was enclosed by a white fence and had three rows of wooden racks with salted fish and some men’s clothes hanging out to dry.

A swarthy and bare-chested man was boiling water in the courtyard, using a pot set up in the open and operating the simplest method of distillation.

It was so primitive.