"I’m very sorry," Koizumi Katsuko apologized softly.

"Why?"

Koshiba Tarou’s tone was full of confusion.

"Because you can’t watch the rain with me."

Koizumi Katsuko hung up the phone and walked out of the hotel room.

...

"Jerry, don’t save money for me, should we add a hoof flower soup?"

At a decent local restaurant near the Fitz Campus, Mona dabbed her mouth with a napkin and waved to call over the waiter.

"No, Miss Sande Nu, I’m really quite full, let me get this," Jerry put down the silver spoon, looking at the flickering candle stands and roses in front of him.

This was a cozy candlelit restaurant that couples often visit and not as upscale as the Italian restaurant in the Embassy District he’d been to previously, but it did have a good ambiance.

Rain, piano, roses, a couple of foreign tourists at the next table were silently kissing.

Everything was so romantic, 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Unfortunately, the young woman, the student council president across from him, did not show any sign of being lovestruck.

Miss Sande Nu kept silently tackling the snacks in front of her, hardly speaking at all.

"No, I insist on treating, that was our agreement," Mona smiled slightly, then signed her name on the POS machine screen.

"Hold on, can you take a photo for us?"

Jerry handed his phone to the waiter beside him, indicating for them to take a group photo.

Mona hesitated a little.

"Just for the memory," Jerry shrugged.

"Alright."

Having accepted such an important gift from him, Mona didn’t want to come off as too ungrateful, she politely posed for the picture with Jerry, then took her purse and stood up.

"It’s really pouring today, will you get home safely? Would you like me to call a driver for you?" Jerry, intending to flaunt his gentlemanly demeanor, was ready to see it through.

"No need, I’m calling my family’s driver, he should be here."

Brother Mumbai was sitting in a Volvo XC60 across the street from the restaurant, idly flipping through a magazine with beautiful women on it.

After receiving the call from the young lady of the household, he immediately rushed over carrying an umbrella from the car.

"Miss, this guy seems much wealthier than Young Master Gu, you never went to such nice restaurants when you dined together before. Have you not been seeing Young Master Gu recently?"

Brother Mumbai saw Mona waving goodbye to a blond youth he didn’t recognize as he opened the car door for her and curiously asked.

They didn’t go to high-end restaurants before because she considered the limited conditions of Gu Weijing’s family, but today was to express gratitude to Jerry, which was different.

This thought passed through Mona’s mind.

She didn’t feel like explaining much to her family’s driver, she simply frowned and asked, "Why would you say that?"

"I haven’t seen Young Master Gu come to the house for a long time, you two used to be together often," Brother Mumbai said.

"Right, in the future, he probably won’t come to our house anymore," Mona looked a little uneasy and said irritably, "I have nothing to do with him anymore."

She noticed a fleeting look of regret pass over Brother Mumbai’s face.

"What, you like Gu Weijing a lot?" Mona asked, frowning slightly.

"Oh, Young Master Gu often smiled at me, and also..."

Brother Mumbai indeed quite liked Mona’s former little boyfriend.

In his memory, Gu Weijing was a polite young man who always had a warm smile for him, the driver.

"...And he often hired my car to deliver things to a local orphanage last month, I could earn a little labor fee each time."

Brother Mumbai felt a bit embarrassed, but he still said honestly, "I could make some money from him."