Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!

Chapter 646: Chapter 646: My Mobile Phone is out of Battery

Upon hearing Wendy introduce him, Edward Lopez looked for Cindy Clarke’s reaction.

But to his surprise, Cindy looked like she didn’t recognize him and had never heard of his name before.

Edward snorted internally, thinking that Cindy was really good at pretending.

Even if she couldn’t remember him from the competition day, he was a celebrity who often appeared on hot topics, so it would be really difficult not to know him.

Then he heard Cynthia Florine mentioning that she had sent an assistant to find them backstage that day.

Only then did Cindy show a sudden realization expression.

This truly angered Edward. Did he really have such a weak presence that people couldn’t remember him?

It seemed that Wendy’s sister was much more cunning than Wendy herself.

Edward chuckled twice and said, “Cindy, you sure have a big reputation, huh!”

“I just wanted to meet you, but I couldn’t even get that.”

Cindy asked, puzzled, “I remember that day backstage, your assistant said he wanted to see all of us. How did it become just me?”

Upon hearing this, the people behind Cindy finally understood.

It turned out that Edward’s intentions that day were not really about wine, but about Cindy.

He had called them all out, but his actual target was Cindy.

Edward laughed lightly, pretended to be handsome by slightly lowering his head. He pinched his right wrist with his left hand and said, “Cindy, there’s no point in playing dumb now.”

He directly took out his mobile phone: “Shall we add each other on Whatsapp? If we have time, let’s have a good chat later.”

“Sorry, my phone is out of battery,” Cindy replied.

But as soon as Cindy finished speaking, her phone rang.

Cindy: “…”

Everyone: “…”

Edward: “…”

Edward was even somewhat angered out of embarrassment.

To be honest, he had never pursued a girl before.

It was always girls who took the initiative to pursue him.

As soon as he set his sights on someone, just one look from him would make the other party take the initiative.

In Edward’s view, this would not be an exception with Cindy.

But Cindy actually rejected him.

Using the lame excuse of her phone being out of battery.

Now that everyone carries a mobile phone, it’s so important.

Who would let their phone run out of battery?

This excuse sounded like a casual lie, but also particularly insincere.

What did this mean?

It meant that Cindy didn’t take him seriously at all.

So even the excuse for rejection was so perfunctory.

“Hmph!” Edward couldn’t help but sneer.

Was Cindy deliberately trying to arouse his interest?

He had seen such tactics many times before.

Even Wendy had used them.

So, in his view, Cindy’s little trick was really nothing.

However, since it had damaged his pride, Edward wasn’t very happy.

Edward looked at Cindy sarcastically, wondering how she would cover up this lie.

But he didn’t expect that Cindy had no intention of covering it up at all.

He saw Cindy directly take out her phone from her evening bag under everyone’s gaze.

She nodded apologetically and said, “Excuse me, I need to take this call.”

After speaking, Cindy took her phone and went to the corner by the door.

Edward: “…”

Well done!

Very well done!

Cindy really had no intention of covering up the lie!

She just openly and confidently told him that she did it on purpose.

She simply didn’t want to give him her contact information.

“Hmph!” Edward couldn’t help but sneer again.

He had never been treated with such disregard before.

Cindy was becoming more and more interesting to him.

By now, Edward’s feelings towards Cindy were not just simple admiration, but a desire to possess her and conquer her.

Seeing Cindy playing hard-to-get and deliberately dangling him, he wanted to see what other tricks she would use later.

Unaware that Edward had already set a character for her in his mind, Cindy took her phone to the corner outside the banquet hall.

The phone screen displayed “Mr. Zhekova,” which was a call from Adrian Zhekova.

The reason for saving Adrian’s number as Mr. Zhekova was not because of unfamiliarity or embarrassment.

Their current relationship was far from unfamiliar or embarrassing.

It was simply because Adrian had set her phone number as Mrs. Zhekova.

When Cindy saw this, she decided to make it a matching pair with Adrian’s name, and so she wrote Mr. Zhekova for him.

As for Adrian previously wanting to save Cindy’s name as “baby” or “darling,” Cindy firmly refused.

That would be too cheesy. She couldn’t even accept it herself, so it would be better to keep it normal.

Cindy quickly answered the call.

“Mr. Zhekova,” Cindy joked.

Originally, Cindy didn’t usually call him this way.

She usually just called him Adrian. But seeing his call now, she suddenly recalled the reason for this name, so she played along with the joke.

On the other end of the phone, Adrian raised his brow slightly and, playing along with Cindy’s joke, chuckled and said, “Mrs. Zhekova, I just finished here. I’m coming to find you now.”

Cindy nodded, “Don’t rush, I still have plenty of time here.”

Adrian agreed and asked, “How about your side? Is anyone bullying you?”

Cindy originally wanted to tell him about Wendy and Edward’s situation, but she thought that if she did, Adrian would probably rush over in a hurry.

That will be too dangerous, and she really couldn’t rest assured.

So she hesitated for a moment and said, “No, there are people from Pingla Academy here, and they are taking good care of me.”

Of course, Adrian didn’t miss the slight pause in Cindy’s speech. But he didn’t ask further.

Obviously, Cindy didn’t want to talk about it, and he probably wouldn’t get a clear answer over the phone.

Anyway, he would go there soon. He would ask about it when he arrived.

Cindy wouldn’t be able to hide it from him for long.

So Adrian hung up and headed towards the banquet.

After ending the call, Cindy came back, and Edward immediately asked impolitely, “Didn’t you say your phone was out of battery?”

Cindy raised her eyebrow, a gesture very similar to Adrian’s, equally disdainful, as if looking down from above, not taking people seriously.

Edward was truly annoyed by Cindy’s expression.

Where does such a small girl get such a big aura?

He seemed to have seen this expression somewhere before, but for a moment, he couldn’t remember where. However, Edward was certain that it definitely wasn’t from Cindy.

What Edward didn’t know was that Cindy, who spent all day with Adrian, would be influenced by him.

Whether it was the huge difference in temperament between her and Wendy, which seemed natural and refined,

Or her current aura, and some inadvertent small gestures, they were all influenced by Adrian.

Even with all her efforts to imitate and learn, Wendy was still not quite the same.

She didn’t have someone like Adrian who could be with her all the time and influence her.

Moreover, Cindy’s circle wasn’t just Adrian, but the entire Zhekova Family.