Chapter 127

Susan coughed and said, “That’s because there are only five girls in our department…”

“But it’s true that you have so many pursuers.” Ben sighed. “Poor me. No one likes me until now.”

“If you had removed the scar earlier, I’m sure you would have had a lot of pursuers,” Susan said.

Ben raised his eyebrows and forced Susan into a corner. “Anyway, the fact is that there is always someone like you, but no one ever confessed her love to me. Don’t you think your should comfort me?”

Susan averted her gaze. “How… how can I comfort you?”

Ben was about to make some unreasonable requests; such as consummate the marriage.

His phone suddenly rang.

Ben wanted to ignore it, but Susan seemed to have found a life–saving straw. She hurriedly said, “There’s a message on your phone. Take a look.”

“My eyes hurt. I don’t want to read the message,” Ben said shamelessly.

“Let me take a look for you!” Susan didn’t give Ben a chance to refuse her and swiftly took out his phone from his pocket.

Both of their mobile phones could be unlocked with each other’s fingerprints, and there was nothing that they needed to hide from each other.

Susan clicked on his phone casually and glanced at the latest message.

She had wanted to read it to Ben, but when she saw the message, she was so angry that she sneered.

She put the phone in Ben’s hand and said expressionlessly, “Mr. Landor. Didn’t you say that no one likes you?”

“No.” Ben looked at Susan suspiciously. “Susan, don’t fake anything to frame me.”

Susan sneered at him. “I fake it on your phone? Edie?”

W Edie.

Why was this address so familiar to him?

Ben suddenly had a bad feeling.

He quickly glanced at the message.

Then, his pupils abruptly contracted.

The message read: [Edie, I didn’t expect your real look to be so much different and better. If you had removed the scar earlier, I wouldn’t have been deceived by that gigolo, and we wouldn’t have gotten divorced. Edie, do you know that the man who made an oath to me. was actually a big liar? He cheated my heart out of my money, turned around, and disappeared. Edie, I regret it now. I really regret it. Now I know that you are the one who is really good to me. I miss you.]

I “She misses you. Hurry up and reply,” Susan said expressionlessly.

Ben felt his eyelids twitch. He quickly put away his phone and said, “Susan, listen to my explanation.”

“Explain yourself. I’m listening,” Susan said calmly.

Ben panicked. He said slowly, “I… I don’t know what’s going on either. The message is from my ex–

wife, Monica Lynn. She grew up with me and Thomas. But I swear that she has always been afraid of me because of my ugly appearance, so we don’t have much contact.”

Susan raised her eyebrows. “Continue.”

Ben frowned and continued, “Thomas likes her, but for some reason, she suddenly fell in love with a painter and wants to marry him. The Lynn family is prestigious. Her parents naturally don’t agree with her marrying a poor painter while they think that I am a satisfactory candidate in many aspects except for being ugly. So they began to try their best to match us.”

“And then you fell for her?” Susan continued to sneer.

Ben shook his head desperately. “No. I’m not interested in marriage. She cried and made a fuss about it. But seeing that it was impossible for her parents to agree to her marrying the painter, she came up with an idea. She begged me to fake a marriage with her and then a asked me to help her flee by faking her death so that she could spend the rest of her life with the painter. This idea is actually quite ridiculous. I didn’t agree at first.”

“Then why did you agree to it later?” Susan relaxed a little.

Ben sighed and said, “Thomas is unrequited in love. He loves Monica deeply. Even if she wants to be with someone else, he is willing to bless her forever. He came to me and begged me to help her.

Although I am not close with Monica, Thomas is my best friend. Since he begged me, I agreed to help Monica!

“I can swear that after I married her, she had been secretly dating that painter all day long. The total number of sentences we said did not exceed ten!” Ben said.

Susan said, “You seem to like being cuckolded.”

“This is not a cuckold.” Ben didn’t care at all. “That woman is born with a brain for love. I didn’t want to have anything to do with her.”

Ben didn’t seem to have any feelings for Monica.

Susan coughed lightly and felt a little embarrassed. She said guiltily, “Actually, it doesn’t matter even if you have ever fallen for Monica. After all, we hadn’t met each other at that time.

She was also in love with Timothy before.

Raising his brows, Ben firmly said, “I only love you in my life.”

Susan immediately blushed.

“Now, are you satisfied?” Ben smiled. “Why don’t we continue talking about how to comfort me…”

“Wait!” Susan was unconvinced. “You’ve never fallen for her, but that doesn’t mean that she is not fond of you. I’m not blind. Monica is simply flirting with you by sending such a message! She must be interested in you.”

“That’s impossible.” Ben frowned.

“How is that impossible?” Susan pointed it out. “Let me ask you, is that painter particularly good–

looking?”

Frowning, Ben pondered for a long time before nodding. “Maybe.”