He sat opposite Molly and glanced at the dishes and wine glasses on the table, and then asked, "Are
you here with Brian? Where's he now?"
Looking at Eric's provoking face and evil smile, Molly got even more frustrated. She stared back at Eric
and said with sarcasm, "You have a habit of always showing up at the right time!"
Eric shrugged and agreed, "Yes, I think so. Every time, you are left out of the blue by my cousin, I will
show up in front of you like your knight to give you comfort."
"And then, you will push me into an even deeper abyss!" said Molly and then sneered.
"Little Molly, don't say that. Am I a devil in your eyes?" Eric asked, frowning.
"What? Do you think you are an angel?" Molly taunted, which left Eric speechless.
"Eric, who is she?" a woman's gentle and cute voice came from behind Molly. The woman
spontaneously sat next to Eric and squinted at Molly with eyes full of jealousy.
Molly curiously looked at the woman who came together with Eric in the restaurant. Strangely, Molly
somehow felt that she had seen this beautiful woman before.
While Molly was curiously observing the woman's face, the woman was also scanning Molly's figure
from head to toe with apparent disdain in her face as she found out that Molly was just a cheap and
ordinary woman wearing expensive clothes.
The woman discreetly let out a cold hum. She paid no further attention to Molly, and then wrapped her
arms around Eric, pouted her lips and said, "Eric, I'm hungry. Let's move to another table, okay?"
Hearing this, Eric furrowed his brows more tightly. Disregarding the woman's pride, he drew his arm
away from her bluntly, and then said indifferently, "I have something important to do. You should go eat
by yourself. I'll pay for it."
In front of the woman's dumbfounded and shocked face, Eric pulled Molly up from her seat, led her to
the door and both of them went out of the restaurant. Molly, on the other hand, just followed Eric's lead
while still wondering who the woman was.
After slightly pushing Molly into his car, Eric got in and occupied the driver's seat.
"You've just abandoned the hottest rising star. Aren't you regretting it? Don't you think it's a pity?" Molly
playfully teased Eric as she finally remembered who the woman was. She was Kay Jiang, a currently
popular star who was known to the public because of her box-office hit movie.
Eric just fastened his seatbelt, turned his head to look at Molly and then said with humor, "I would
regret it more if I had abandoned you."
Molly grunted while her face darkened, "Your joke is becoming boring!"
Feeling snubbed, Eric touched his nose, and then adjusted his seat to start the engine. He said
casually afterwards, "Next time, if Brian abandons you again, just call me. I'll come and keep you
company, no matter how busy I am."
Molly looked towards Eric, just enough to meet his eyes as he had tilted his head to give her an evil
smile. Immediately, she shifted her eyes elsewhere to avoid his eye contact.
Molly knew that Eric was just joking, but at that moment, she didn't want to snap back at him, because
somehow, she hoped that it was true.
It was not about love or romance. Molly just felt that she got tired after going through so many things in
such a short period of time. She just wanted to have someone who could keep her company and share
her sadness. That was the only thing she felt towards Eric.
"Don't promise anything to others so casually, even if you just mean to make a joke. Please don't do it
again, " Molly said as she leaned backwards on the seat while she had her eyes fixed at the front
windshield. The warm sunlight pierced through it and danced across her face.
Eric glanced at her and said proudly, "If you hope that my words are true, then don't treat them as a
joke."
Perplexed by his words, Molly slightly tilted her head to look at Eric.
"Molly, why not give it a try? Next time, if this happens again, call me and see whether I'll keep my
promise or not, " Eric said while maintaining a casual voice, but this time, Molly knew that he was
serious and she took his words seriously.
With furrowed brows, Eric cast another deep side glance as his eyes went dark. He wondered why he
had blurted out those words to her. More importantly, he really felt that he wasn't joking. But why did he
have such thoughts?
Confused, Eric couldn't understand why he worried and thought about Molly with so much concern to
the point that he made a promise like that. But after a second thought, he started to make sense of it
and became much more relaxed.
Since they were young, he had always tried to compete against Brian in everything he cared about,
particularly when it came to love.
A mysterious and evil grin slowly spread across Eric's lips as he recalled the past. His smile fell onto
Molly's eyes and somehow gave her that sense of appeal and charm as she gazed on it. "Eric, you are
not so different from Brian. Both of you have forgotten how to live in peace and harmony with other
people ever since, right? You guys always wear those masks to hide your true faces and would never
let other people see through you, " Molly voiced out her thoughts a little hesitantly.
Molly pictured Brian's face in her mind while looking at Eric and a bitter feeling gradually dawned on
her after saying those words.
Eric squinted at Molly for a while, and then said in a relaxed voice, "Life itself is a play. Everyone wears
a mask on his face. And, so do you. Don't you think so?"
Molly smiled, moved her eyes away, and pondered on Eric's words.
He was right. Everyone was wearing a mask in this world.
"Then, what kind of person is Brian?" Molly asked all of a sudden as she leaned her back on the car
seat.
Eric narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "Are you sure that you want to know the answer?
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