Chapter 3

The man on the sofa with long legs folded, both hands smoothed on his legs, his back straight, just casually leaning on the sofa will feel reserved and dignified.

Daylight reflection, the man's handsome face was originally deep contours more obvious with a few points of brightness, straight sword eyebrows, ink-coloured eyes shallow a few points, such as last night's full aggressiveness compared to today is to appear very gentlemanly.

Yes, this man is Alston.

Although Edith had seen Alston's photo before, this was the first time to saw him face to face, he could not help but sigh for his excellent temperament and appearance.

But Edith is not interested in admiring him now, she is full of caution, not knowing Alston's intention of coming here, and she secretly steals a glance at him.

Alston caught Edith's eyes and, used to seeing women giving him the swooning look, automatically put Edith in the same category as the other girls, and was disgusted by them.

"Edith, I heard from Teacher J that you got first place in the final exam again."

"Teacher J is applying for a national scholarship for you, have you got the prize money from the last code programming competition and clothing design competition?"

"Just in time, let me introduce you to a rich and powerful big shot."

Edith loves money, and all the competitions that can get prize money, Edith participated in all of them, fought for the school and won the championship, Edith studied well and didn't get into trouble, Principal K treats Edith as a treasure to provide for her, and thinks of her when there are any good things.

"Alston, let me introduce to you, this is Edith, her academic performance is very good, her CV is also very good, her ability is strong, and her character is good, I would like to recommend her to be the first batch of award-winning students of the scholarship established by A's Group for our school."

"Edith, this is Mr Alston."

"Mr Alston is preparing to set up a scholarship for our school, say hello to Mr Alston."

A scholarship?

Alston is here to sponsor a scholarship for the school.

Looking at Alston's detached and indifferent expression, he didn't seem to be here to settle scores with himself either.

Edith let out a sigh of relief, put on a false smile on his face and said against his will,

 "Nice to meet you, Mr Alston, I've heard a lot about you, and I've benefited a lot from watching your interview reports on the financial channel many times."

Alston nodded at his words and looked at Edith from top to bottom.

He could see that Edith's words to himself were all compliments and not half true, but there weren't many people who could get Headmaster K to praise him so much and personally recommend him.

Programming and costume?

From the headmaster's mouth, it seemed the student was still an all-rounder.

The distaste in Alston's heart faded, and there was more of an examination, the reason he set up a scholarship in the school was to select and cultivate talents for the A's Group, if this student in front of him was a good seedling, he naturally wouldn't let go of it.

Edith was uncomfortable by Alston's aggressive gaze, excused to go back to class, fleeing from the scene, but another teacher who teaches maths M teacher bumped into and arrested to work, near noon, only to be released out of the office building.

Edith is also distressed, thinking that it's not good for her to be too famous at school, being known by all the teachers and squeezed into shifts, but the prize money for the competition is just too much and she can't afford to let anyone else have it.

Can't mess with money, Edith thought to herself, moving her shoulders to head out the door, only to see a tall man in a black suit standing in front of her.

"You were waiting for me?"

The man questioned in a cold voice.

Edith froze, her right eye fluttering.

"I'm sorry Mr Alston, I think you have a misunderstanding."

"I went to help my teacher just now before I came out, I didn't mean to meet you by chance."

Edith's words are said euphemistically, on the surface to explain a misunderstanding but spit Alston's narcissistic overthinking.

Alston's eyes were cool, and he turned away, heading for the car park.

But the car park is right next to the school entrance, Edith leaving school is bound to walk with Alston for some time, Alston walks slowly, Edith also in the back of the grinding, deliberately and Alston maintains a large distance.

When they reached the car park, Edith took advantage of Alston raising his hand to open the car door to run around Alston towards the door, only to see a guy and a girl entering the school gates head on, and immediately turned around and ran back, but was still noticed by the two men.

"Edith!"

said Louis who lit up at the sight of Edith and immediately ran towards her.

Sharon, who was pestering Louis behind her, stomped her foot in dissatisfaction at the sight and reluctantly followed her over.

In the university, there is a lot of love, love, love and all kinds of hot gossip, and the top of the gossip list is the love triangle between Edith, Louis, and Sharon.

Louis is from a wealthy family, and is the child of the rich and powerful, soon after the start of the school was attracted to Edith for winning awards begins to emerge, a chase is three years, and Sharon also backed Louis for three years.

Classmates praise Louis for deep love and long love, think Edith misses Louis is her loss, but Edith is clear, what can make Louis pursue their own so long is never love, but unwillingness, rich and noble people call the wind and rain, want to mountain get the mountain, want to sea get sea trick used to playing, the first time planted on their own, to worthless face or vanity to disguise to this point, will be bound to take their own!

The first time he fell on her, he disguised her for the sake of a worthless face or vanity.

Edith originally and Louis said clearly, but many times rejected his good intentions, coupled with Louis like a dog in the school sticking to themselves, regardless of the eyes of others, many times engaging in rehearsals to force themselves to agree to be with him, Edith annoyed very much, and now see him to avoid when he can.

"Edith, are you going home?"

"I'll give you a lift!"

Louis offered Edith.

"No need, Thank You."

Edith refused coldly and walked around Louis to leave, but Louis grabbed his wrist.

"Edith you can't keep rejecting me, you have to give me the chance to show myself."

Louis insisted, eyeing Edith.

Edith was just about to speak when Sharon took out her phone and gave it to Louis.

 "Louis, she doesn't deserve you to be so nice to her!"

"She acts like a good student at school."

"Edith is so slutty in private; she's all wrapped up with older men!"

Look!"

Sharon showed Louis the picture of Edith getting out of the Mercedes, the driver's seat was indeed an older man in his fifties who was intimate with her.

Louis looked at the face black, after half a moment's pause, he took his mobile phone and wanted to transfer money to Edith:

"Edith, are you short of money?"

"If you're short of money, you can talk to me, I can give you money, and you can come to me for any difficulties you may have."

"No Louis, you can't be fooled by her again, she's just hanging on to you because she wants to cheat you out of money, you can't fall for it again!"

Sharon had wanted to use the photos to make Louis die to Edith, she hadn't thought of lifting a stone to hit her own feet and immediately went to grab Louis' mobile phone to stop Louis from transferring money to Edith.

Edith's eyes flew up to the sky, not realising that Frank had come to the school a few days ago to ask himself to plead with Alston, only to be photographed by Sharon.

She laughed sarcastically and stared at Sharon like a theatre:

 "No way no way, there's no way someone so poor that they can't even afford a Mercedes Benz can see someone else in a Mercedes Benz and say that they're being adopted, right?"

Sharon's family is not well off, otherwise, she wouldn't have stared at Louis as a rich man, she blushed when she heard Edith's words and disliked back with a stiff upper lip,

"Edith, don't be sophomoric!"

"I'm going to post this matter to the school forum so that everyone can see what kind of face you have!"

A crowded place is most willing to pass on gossip, and when people pass it on, the truth gradually becomes tainted, and Sharon doesn't believe that rumours can't tarnish Edith's reputation!