Selena's curled eyelashes trembled as she lifted her misty black eyes and stared quietly at Osvaldo.
The man met her gaze calmly and uttered a soft "What?" after a moment.
It took a while before she spoke. "I am a mushroom now."
Osvaldo raised an eyebrow.
"Mushrooms can't talk," she continued. Meaning, she couldn't speak right now.
Osvaldo gazed at Selena's beautiful and serene facial features for a moment, and realized that she was truly treating herself as a mushroom, planted here and now unable to speak. His lips twitched uncontrollably at the thought.
So, Selena's greatest desire was to be lazy?!
Osvaldo looked at the young girl's quiet and delicate face, feeling a twinge of heartache. He didn't say anything, and just stayed quietly by her side.
Besides occasionally helping the "beautiful mushroom" change positions, rub her legs, and feed her water, he didn't do anything else.
It wasn't until the sky darkened and the winds began to pick up that Osvaldo gently stroked Selena's hair and asked, "It's going to rain. Would you like to move to a place where it's not raining?"
Perhaps due to the weather, Selena's misty eyes were filled with a hint of moisture. She looked up at the man who had been "loosening the soil and watering" her and whispered softly, "Mushrooms can't walk by themselves."
Osvaldo raised his hand and embraced the slender body, his black eyes gazing deeply into hers. "I can carry you."
He picked Selena up and this time, instead of placing her in the passenger seat, he held her in his arms and drove away.
...
Patrick had just returned from visiting Oscar at medical school when he saw the butler walking towards him with a strange expression. "Young master..."
Patrick had been busy with Oscar's surgery and was tired, but he managed to suppress the weariness that showed in his eyes. "What is it, Tom?"
"It's about Miss Selena..." The butler didn't want to disturb Patrick at a time like this if it wasn't about Selena.
Patrick's brow furrowed instantly. "What happened to Selena?"
The old butler saw his worries and shook his head, "Miss Selena is fine. It's just that there's suddenly a rumor going around outside, saying that..."
After looking at Patrick's expression, the old butler continued, "Miss Selena got drunk and offended the Shaw family during Master Antonio's birthday banquet..."
Patrick instantly breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay."
The Turner family and the Shaw family were already bitter enemies, so they didn't care about offending them.
But Selena got drunk?
How dare that man let the young girl drink?
After asking for details from the butler, Patrick turned around and wanted to go see Selena.
But as he walked out the door, he saw that it was raining outside. Selena was probably still asleep from the alcohol at this time.
The young man stood on the steps and remembered the incident that Selena caused at the Anderson family's banquet, and suddenly smiled.
Selena rarely indulged herself like that.
Although it seemed to outsiders that Selena could get whatever she wanted, nobody knew that those things were all requested by the Turner family. There was never anything that she wanted for herself.
Selena appeared arrogant and domineering, but she always acted with discretion. Not to mention acting like a spoiled girl, she had never even expressed fear as a normal person.
Whenever there was a storm, she was always the one standing at the forefront.
The rumor about Selena being drunk was just a way for outsiders to see if the Turner family would feel disgraced because of her and teach her a lesson.
Who could bear to teach such a well-behaved and sensible young girl a lesson?
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