Upon hearing the voice, Cali raised her head and saw a man wearing a mask standing in front of them. She stuttered, "S-Sean! Good morning!"
Surprised and ashamed for being caught, Cali ran away.
"Cali!" Nina shouted. But even that didn't stop Cali from running. She looked at John who acted as if nothing had happened, and then hurried to catch up with Cali. "Cali, wait. Why are you running? Stop! Cali!"
Cali finally stopped and raised her hands to cover her face.
When Nina walked over, she saw that Cali's ears were red. Cali tilted her head away from her as if unwilling to face her.
"Cali, what's wrong with you? What happened?"
"Ah!" Cali screamed once again. She covered her face and lowered her head. "Sean must have heard everything we talked about and known that I was peeping at him. It's so embarrassing."
"It seems that you really like Sean, Cali." Nina smiled and pulled her hands off her face. She stared at her pink face and continued, "If you really like him, just confess your love to him. You don't have to do it secretly."
Cali's eyed widened. "Confess? No, no, no. I dare not. Sean won't like me."
"All right. Maybe my thoughts are different from yours." Nina pursed her lips and smiled. "I think expressing my love to someone is only to let him know about my feelings for him. It's not to make him like me back. Under the premise of not causing him any trouble, I want him to know that there is someone in the world who really likes him."
"But I dare not," Cali said in a timid voice. "The first time that I saw Sean, I've fallen in love with him. Although others said that he looked fierce and intimidating, I know that deep inside, he is a very gentle person.
On your first day in the hospital, I came back to pack up for you. I almost tripped while I was walking down the stairs. It was Sean who saved me."
'It turns out that the hero saved the beauty.
No wonder Cali loves Sean,'
Nina thought to herself as she listened to Cali.
"Sean is awesome, and he is very good at kung fu. Even Count Nangong and Prince Leon treat him differently from other servants and bodyguards. There is no way he will show interest in a person like me." Cali lowered her eyes, wallowing in self-pity.
"I know I don't deserve him, but I can't help but want to get close to him. So every day, I check on him and see where he goes and what he does. I plan to appear near him so that it looks like we meet by chance. Greeting him makes me happy."
"Cali..." The inexplicable feeling once again rose from the bottom of Nina's heart, as if she could feel Cali's suffering. She stepped forward and hugged her. "I should have felt the same—that I don't deserve the man I admire."
"How could it be?" Cali said in surprise. "Your Highness, you are the most noble lady on C Island. You are beautiful and talented. Most of the girls admire what you have done, and you are also many people's idol. How can you not deserve Count Nangong? You two are the best match in the world."
Nina smiled. "You are such a flatterer."
But Cali stood her ground and looked Nina in the eye. "I'm serious," she said sincerely.
Nina sighed. "Okay. Please don't be sad anymore. It's all my fault. I ruined your plan this morning."
"No, no." Cali shook her head. "Today is the first day that I carried out my plan. Even if you were not there, I'd screw it up too. I was so nervous."
"I hope everything goes well tomorrow," Nina smiled. "By the way, I have a question to ask you."
"Go ahead, Your Highness," Cali answered.
Nina looked at Cali seriously. "If I often meet someone by chance, is it possible that the person makes it look like we meet by chance?" Nina suspected that there was something wrong with the frequent encounter between Sean and her.
Cali thought for a while and said, "There are only two kinds of situations when we often meet a person. The first is fate, and the second is man-made. It may be fate that two people often meet. It's also possible that that person likes the other person and deliberately create opportunities to meet. It's just like what I did. I tried to create an opportunity to meet Sean, but I failed the first time."
"Maybe it's not fate," Nina muttered in a low voice. God had already given her Noah, so there was no reason for her to be given another man.
But if it was not God, then there must be something wrong with Sean.
She had to find an opportunity to talk to him and sort it out.
"What?" Cali asked in confusion. "Who are you referring to?"
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