Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 148

Julie looked at Kieran and said, “Honestly, Kieran, you’re the first guy I’ve met who can spout such elegant bullcrap! You let me chase after you because you liked me, but you didn’t accept me. So you actually enjoy the process of me pursuing you, right?”

“I was waiting for you to grow up,” he calmly said, waiting for Julie’s response.

“What do you mean?”

“I was waiting for you to grow up because I don’t want you to rush into love. I hope you can get into a good university and achieve your dreams, instead of making me your life goal. I don’t want you to look back on the past and only remember that you didn’t achieve anything. You should know you’re excellent in your own right, and I like you for who you are, not because you like me.”

Julie looked at Kieran speechlessly for a few seconds before helplessly responding, “So should I be touched? Should I be moved to tears, thank you, and then repay you?”

“Not rush into anything with you is because I have self–control,” he replied.

Julie covered Kieran’s mouth with her hand, “So when you were punished by the coach to accompany me running laps, was it also because you had self–control?”

Logically speaking, Kieran was such an excellent student, the coach should have liked him a lot. Why would he make him run laps? When this was mentioned, Kieran’s expression finally showed a hint of discomfort. After hesitating for a moment, he said to Julie, “I said something I shouldn’t have said.”

“What did you say?” Julie’s tone was obviously curious.

What Julie didn’t know was that Kieran didn’t intend to run laps with her that day. But after the coach punished Julie to run, he turned back, one hand on his waist, pointing at Julie to the other students and said, “Look at her, never proactive, she’s always looking for excuses when there’s a bit of difficulty. When she goes out into society, even a dumb donkey will be better than her!”

At that time, Kieran didn’t want to interact with the coach, let alone argue with him. But when the coach pointed at Julie and said she was worse than a dumb donkey, he unexpectedly said, “How do you think you’re better than a donkey?”

The class instantly gasped, then burst into laughter.

Even if Kieran was excellent and the teacher liked him, he wouldn’t tolerate such an insult. So…

Kieran was punished to run laps with Julie.

In the end, Kieran decided to tell Julie about this.

Julie wanted to keep her serious face, but she couldn’t help it, the laughter in her eyes couldn’t be hidden.

She could already imagine Kieran’s serious expression when arguing with the teacher.

After laughing enough, Julie looked at Kieran and said seriously, “Don’t blame everything on me, you’re the one who said the wrong thing and got punished, it has nothing to do with me!”

She patted him on the shoulder, and then started to talk business with Kieran, “First of all, please stand up, we need to discuss our remarriage. I promise, I won’t divorce.”

While Kieran was still in shock, Julie used all her strength to push Kieran off her, then quickly ran to the door, grabbed the doorknob, and said to Kieran, “Please don’t come closer, just stay where you are! If

you take one more step, I’ll open this door! I’ll say what I need to say as soon as possible, whether or not I get custody of Ivan, I won’t leave him.”

“Okay.”

Kieran really stood still, not approaching Julie.

Julie said, “About the marriage certificate, if you want, you can keep it, I don’t need it anymore. After all, we can directly apply for divorce to the court a few years after separation. If you agree, we can go through the legal process.”

Kieran stood by the sofa, not responding to Julie.

There was a distance of five or six meters between them.

Julie looked at Kieran seriously, “Being as smart as you, you should know the law that allows for divorce after a period of separation, right?”

Kieran sat on the sofa looking at Julie, not intending to approach her.

Julie relaxed a bit, but her hand was still on the doorknob, she said to Kieran warily, “Please tell me straight, why do you want to remarry me, why choose to remarry me at this time?”

Kieran was too clever, so Julie had to view him from a smarter perspective.

She didn’t think about whether he really liked her or not, but she knew that even if Kieran wanted to remarry her, he wouldn’t propose it at this time. He could first let her build a relationship with Ivan and then gradually bring up this issue.

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Considering her current mood, Kieran tricked her into remarrying, she was already being very nice, not angry with him.

Kieran must understand this, but he still chose to deceive her at this time, Julie believed, he must have his reasons.

Kieran looked at Julie, his eyes filled with a warm smile.

Julie was sometimes very cute, sometimes very smart, irresistibly lovable.

He took out his phone, opened the latest trending news, and then got up to walk towards Julie.

“Don’t come over!” Julie put out her hand to stop him.

“I promise I won’t touch you, just look at this.” Kieran walked towards Julie while handing her his phone.

By the time Julie was still hesitating, Kieran had already walked up to her.

The phone screen showed the top ten trending topics, five or six of which were related to Kieran, mainly about his illegitimate child, his ex–wife, and a woman accused of using a child to climb up the social ladder.

Without thinking, Julie knew that the accused woman was her.

What Julie didn’t expect was that the title of the top trending topic was “Jokier“.

Wasn’t that her account ID?

Julie immediately looked at the phone screen in surprise and clicked in.

Her account was built many years ago, but only a few life–related tweets were posted, four in total.

One was when she first started using Twitter, cheerfully saying: I want to become a scheming woman, chasing a rich and handsome guy.

Of course, that rich and handsome guy was Kieran.

For her second tweet, a month after she started using Twitter, she joyfully posted a picture of her admission letter to Pinnacle University, then added a sad face emoji and tweeted, “I got into Pinnacle University for Mr. Rich and Handsome, but he dodged me and went to Futuro Business College. Why would he rather go to a business school than be with me? I’m so tired.”

The third tweet had a sneaky shot of Kieran’s back and the caption read, “Chasing Mr. Rich and Handsome is hard. A friend told me to act decisively at the right time. I pondered and concluded that persistence is key.”

The fourth tweet, her last update, read, “Heard that persistence is futile. To get the man of your dreams, you need his chromosomes! Don’t stop me, I’m going for it!”

There were only four tweets in total, and the comments were scarce, mostly from familiar people. Beneath the last tweet, Daphne had commented, “May you successfully use the Y chromosome in your body to corner Mr. Hernandez and reach the peak of life.”

This last tweet was posted several weeks before Julie and Kieran first hooked up.

Afterwards, Julie never tweeted again, but she didn’t delete these messages either. She got used to pursuing Kieran, so deleting them or not didn’t matter much. She was in the habit of checking Twitter, following the latest news, so she kept her account active. This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

But Julie never dreamed that her rarely used account, with only five followers, would go viral overnight.

Originally, she had five followers. One was Bertha Stewart, one was Daphne, and the other three were strangers.

But then, overnight, her follower count shot up to over a million, and those few tweets were flooded with comments.

In the detective–li

comments, many people were tagging Kieran and Daphne.

Many accused her of “climbing the social ladder through the kid,” said Kieran was “blinded,” and some even went to Daphne’s page to accuse her and Julie of working together, which seemed to affect Daphne’s company more or less.

Julie never thought it would escalate to this level.

She didn’t really care, but when she heard people on the internet calling her child illegitimate and blaming Daphne, even the normally patient Julie got pissed.

She quickly drafted a tweet, “The kid is mine, who do I need to ‘borrow‘ from?”

Julie didn’t intend to send it, knowing what it would imply, but she never thought Kieran would snatch her phone and press send.

Staring wide–eyed, Julie looked at Kieran and asked incredulously, “What did you just do?”

“It was an accident,” he replied, then skillfully deleted the tweet, handed her the phone back, and said innocently, “It’s okay, I’ve deleted

it.”

Julie looked at her phone and indeed, it was deleted…

But those quick on the draw had already screenshot it as evidence in less than two minutes.

Seeing Julie’s latest tweet deleted immediately after being posted, they quickly commented on the previous tweet.

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Julie held her tongue for a while, but couldn’t come up with a single insult for Kieran. In the end, she could only tug at his tie in anger and helplessness and ask, “Do you want me dead, but you don’t want to get your hands dirty, so you’re letting these comments drown me?”

Kieran’s hand, rough and strong, gripped Julie’s soft hand…

“Let’s go public, announce that we’re married.”