Chapter 148 - Appearance

The owner of the guest house brought them breakfast, saying, "You young persons are here to exercise, so you should have got up early. The air here is fresh. Have a good time here after finishing your breakfast."

The landlady also brought some porridge to them. "One of you did get up early, but it was too early. She asked me what to eat for breakfast at about five in the morning. She must have wandered around for long."

Looking at each other, they finally realized that Arabella wasn't here.

Why she got up so early was that she didn't have dinner yesterday and woke up due to hunger. Everyone knew it clearly, so none of them said a word but enjoyed the porridge.

Sitting opposite Vincent, Emily was eating porridge. She suddenly found someone was staring at her. She looked up, seeing Lord Top look at her as if he wanted to tell her something.

Emily knew what he wanted to say, so she made a gesture to ease him.

Lord Top felt relieved and let out a grateful smile towards her.

Emily thought to herself that no wonder he rarely smiled. Maybe she should say she rarely smiled.

Her smile was so attractive, and so were her fair and slender legs.

Emily admitted that Lord Top did look cool without a cap after looking at her for a while. Her shoulder-length hair was combed backwards and fixed with a little gel, showing how delicate she was. When she was enjoying her porridge, her eyebrows were slightly up. Her nose was high and her mouth...

A big hand appeared in front of her eyes. The joints of the hand were distinct, and there were some thin calluses on its palm. The fingers were long and slender. Most importantly, it almost could the whole face of Emily.

She retracted her gaze and raised her head to see Vincent raising his eyebrows to look at her. He followed her gaze and saw that the group of members eating porridge. One of them looked very cool and just smiled at Emily.

Vincent did say anything else but to remind her, "Have your breakfast."

After having a sip of the porridge, Emily glanced at him while biting the spoon, "I can explain."

The aura between them was a bit weird. Emily looked like a cheated wife who was about to explain to her husband.

Vincent raised his head and looked at her with magnanimity, "Okay."

Emily felt that Vincent didn't just look cold, and he was literally cold. She muttered, "Vincent, everyone will place more of their eyes on beautiful things. And you also told me last time that the desire to look the attractive was universal. And I'm just an ordinary person."

Her explanation didn't work at all. And it even annoyed Vincent.

Emily should say something more to fix this.

"But..." Emily added as she was looking at Vincent's poke face that was way too attractive. She reached out to touch the corner of Vincent's mouth. "After sizing up his appearance, I think good-looking face doesn't matter that much. Instead, inner beauty matters. Besides, none of them is more handsome than you especially when you're smiling."

What a perfect explanation!

Emily would like to thumb up for herself.

Vincent held her hand that was about to touch his face and said in a helpless tone, "Stop, please."

It was just a short sentence, and his tone wasn't that gentle and seductive but helpless. However, it sounded so attractive to Emily. How she was feeling was like a stone thrown to a lake, and her ears turned red quickly for no reason. She pulled her hand away and touched her earlobe.

Lowering her head, she continued to eat her porridge while casting a peek at Vincent every once in a while. She wasn't flattering him. Instead, she was quite serious. Vincent really was the best-looking one in her eyes. Especially when he stared at someone with his eyes narrowed, he was so affectionate. He was indifferent and he always buttoned up his shirt tightly, sort of like a celibate. The contours of his face were as clear as those of a model in a magazine.

He was about the same age as Randy, Jaquan and the others, but he wasn't as lively as the people of his age. What others could sense was only his calmness and reserved temperament cultivated in years.

Vincent was really nice. Not to mention anything else, he contacted a boss of a decoration company last night, and offered a ninety percent discount which was almost free of charge.

What could Emily do? Of course, she could only accept his kindness.

Sizing up the situation, Emily believed she would get more if she was with Vincent. Biting the spoon, she thought she would have to send something valuable to him.

After everyone finished their breakfast, the landlady of the guest house handed each of them a bottle of water and cheered them up, "Come on."

The game otaku spent most of their time in playing games and they barely exercise, so Randy would organize this team-building trip as a celebration for their victory. Who would have thought it to be a mountain climb? Quite a lot of them thought that they would take a cable car to the top of the mountain.

It turned out that they had been too naïve.

Mount Phoenix was also called Mount Phoenix Forest Park. The top of the mountain still maintained its original state, since it had not been developed. The mountain was covered with branches and leaves, even in autumn.

Randy took the lead and shouted, "Let's go."

They met Arabella at the door the moment they set out. She wore a khaki wool skirt, a fur coat, and knee boots. She also put on some makeup, looking so delicate in the sunlight.

"You intended to climb a mountain in this pair of boots?" Looking at her with a frown, Randy was critiquing Jaquan in his heart. What was more, he didn't like the way Arabella acted, especially in front of him.

He threw his bag which was full of snacks onto his back. "Don't think about asking Jaquan to carry you on his back just after a short-time climb. It’ll take us at least four hours to reach the top of the mountain. Okay? Go change your boots, otherwise it would either exhaust or starve you."

Arabella was a little embarrassed, "I, I only brought this pair of shoes here."

There were only three girls in their team, Janessa, Emma and Emily. Emily's feet were far smaller than Arabella’s, so she wouldn’t be able to wear Emily’s shoes. While the size of shoes of Janessa and Emma seemed to be similar to that of Arabella.

When Jaquan was about to ask Janessa for a favor after a glance at her, she took the camera and said, "Wow, the scenery here is good. I’ll take a picture. Armando, come here."

"..."

Janessa didn’t refuse him directly, but everyone could know it clearly that Janessa didn't like Arabella at all, and she wouldn’t lend her shoes to Arabella.

At this time, Jaquan got to believe Randy's comment on Janessa. He said she felt very strongly.

He turned to Emma. Fortunately, Emma didn’t refuse him. Leaning against the wall, she said without hesitation, "I'll go get it."

Arabella waved her hand, "Forget it. I can wear my own boots."

Jaquan said to Randy, "You guys go first. We’ll follow you later."

He followed Emma into the guest house.

Rolling his eyes, Randy acted like he had known what Jaquan would do long before. Then he waved at Stony, "Come on, boy, follow me."

He refused after hearing that, "Nope. I’ll go with my mom. She needs me."

"Even a kid is more sensible than the adults.. What the hell is going on here?" Randy led his team up the mountain after a sigh.