Seriously, How Did He Win My Heart
Chapter 722 Sound Out

Sylvie and Lucien were walking down a path in the neighborhood, when suddenly, Sylvie heard a woman voice nearby, she immediately brought him behind a big tree.

Lucien was confused, while Sylvie pressed him against the tree, and put her index finger on her lip to ask him to keep quiet.

Seemingly hiding from someone, Sylvie pressed herself on Lucien, hoping that the trunk could block both of them from sight.

Sylvie was too nervous to think of anything else, but Lucien, who was pinned under the soft body of the woman, felt a thirst raging in his throat.

The sound was coming closer, appearing to be the talking between two middle-aged women.

One of them said, "I think I just saw Mr. Steinfeld's daughter."

The other said, "Where? How come I didn't see her? Are you sure?"

The first speaker then sniffed heavily, "I couldn't be surer. Even she became a handful of ashes I could still recognize her. That plain Jane thought my nephew wasn't good enough for her. That arrogant chick!" Sylvie rolled her eyes before she gagged as she overheard the conversation

In recent years, her parents began to focus on her love life, especially her mother, who couldn't wait for her to settle down with an eligible man, so she had begun to arrange blind dates for her. The nephew the middle-aged woman was talking about was one those of dates that her mother forced upon her.

Sylvie wanted to leave as soon as she saw that man. It's not that she judged people from their looks, but that she would never settle for a man who already started going bald in his twenties. But that woman had laid it really thick on him before her mother, saying how handsome and dashing her nephew was.

Besides his look, the weirdest part of him was that as soon as he sat down, he asked her if she could consider quitting her job, because he would never live in a mega city like Riverside City given the life pressure there.

Sylvie strongly shown her attitude, telling him that she would stay in Riverside City. The man's face darkened.

After a few exchanges, Sylvie decided that they were two people from different worlds, so she made an excuse and left. His aunt, who was very unhappy with her for walking out of the date, called Sylvie's mom and told her off.

Sylvie thought it was unfair, so she took the phone from her mother and argued with her, after which the woman began to resent her.

She knew how the woman kept badmouthing her in the whole neighborhood with all kinds of disparagement.

There she was heard raging, "Just because she is an assistant of some actress, she thinks she's a star herself? I'll wait and see what kind of man she can hook up with."

"Just some regular office worker, I guess, my nephew is at least government officer."

With utter contempt in her tone, she said, "I'll eat my hat if she can replace a man half as eligible as my nephew."

"It was such a long time ago. How could it still bother you?" The other tried to comfort her.

The woman sniffed and said, "Well, it doesn't. I just want to know what kind of man she can replace."

The two seemed to be heading for grocery shopping. They went further away from Sylvie and Lucien while they were talking. It was not until they disappeared did Sylvie take a deep sigh of relief.

"Sorry, I was trying to avoid that woman." As she explained, she raised her eyes, which met the man's unfathomable look, which sent her heart pounding.

She herself could not tell how she was feeling exactly, but she just seemed to bewitched by that look, when he was all she could see, no, he was her whole world.

She froze, looking into the man's eyes. Lucien murmured her name, "Sylvie..."

"Ye-es?" Sylvie's heart beat ever faster, her voice shaking.

Lucien fastened his hand around her waist, and after bringing her into his arms, he slowly leaned close towards her.

He meant to kiss her,

But he didn't want to seem rude, so he was feeling her out that way.

She could sense his intention, which she used to think she would dislike, seeing that they hadn't been that close, even though they were dating and he had met her parents.

But when he was getting closer, she was surprised to realize that she didn't feel any bit of dislike, instead, she nervously closed her eyes.

It was obviously an invitation, so unable to repress himself any more, he gently kissed the woman's pillow lips. He twisted and turned, and could never seem to get enough.

Sylvie had never kissed before, so she was so nervous that she forgot to breathe the entire time, feeling extremely tense in Lucien's arms.

Then Lucien loosened his grip on her and said, "Breathe."

Sylvie felt terribly shy, and just when she thought it was over, she pushed him away, trying to keep a distance from him, however he kissed her again. She felt weak in her legs, and fell right into Lucien's arms. When he finally let her go, Sylvie's face was as red as blood. She was leaning against him, unable to stand up.

Satisfied with her reaction, he held her into his arms and sweet-talked her before distracting her from her embarrassed feelings. "What was it with that woman? You had a blind date with her nephew?" The middle-aged woman sounded as if she resented Sylvie so much, which annoyed Lucien.

He had overheard that Sylvie went on a blind date with another man, which made him felt even worse

Speaking of that, Sylvie immediately forgot about losing her first kiss, and rose from his arms and detailed the man's behaviors indignantly.

"What disgusted me the most was when I asked him what he did, he said to me with a smug face, 'I am a government officer.' Sylvie continued the flak, "Jeez, I meant to ask what he did in his job and he just thought he would impress me by calling himself an officer."

"I just rolled my eyes and said I got a situation, and left." Although she knew that it was very rude and inelegant to roll her eyes, but she didn't bother think about that back then.

Lucien also thought the man was a dingbat, and that he wouldn't even have given another look at a guy like that.

But he fastened his arms around her, and mocked the middle-aged woman with a smirk, "She said she'd eat her hat if your man is better than her nephew."

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He was confident that he was a hundred times more eligible than her nephew, and it seemed that some gossip would have to eat humble pie.