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But in a surprising turn of events, Merry took out the key chain, checked it, and handed her another car key.

"Drive the old car at home and drive carefully. If something happens, I won't protect you."

Lucas smiled and pulled out his wallet, handing Hope a handful of bills.

"Take it, just in case..." He didn't know how to say "waist money" in English, and he couldn't turn it over directly, so he changed the word.

"…Just in case of emergency, come back early in the evening and don't let Merry worry."

The customs in the Flower Kingdom are not as reserved as those in the Mysterious Kingdom. Hope was not polite at all. He took it with a smile on his face and quickly disappeared from the living room.

Well, she and Emily are classmates, and Hope might be one of Emily’s best friends.

I also attended the party held at the school in the evening.

Almost all the children in Dongcheng Town are classmates, just of different ages and grades. After all, there is only one private high school nearby.

……

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While Lucas and Merry were happily toasting each other.

As the sky gradually darkened, many young people in Dongcheng Town and many nearby towns went to the gathering place tonight, Guanying Private High School, in their own ways.

This high school is not located in any town and is about a 20 to 30 minute drive from the east town.

The Flower Kingdom is a country on wheels. The number of vehicles it owns is greater than its population, and almost every household has a car.

The boys and girls either drove their parents' cars or joined up with friends they knew well. Those who had no friends or whose friends had no cars rode bicycles. Those who had no other options simply gave up the party.

Although Hope didn't have a driver's license, she could drive her father's pickup truck around town when she was 8 years old. Don't expect too much from a father taking care of a child. It's enough for the child to be alive, especially for a father from Huaguo.

By the way, Hope's father did not die for any reason, but because of a breakdown in his relationship with Meri. They divorced and each took a child with them. Hope's father and her sister moved to another state. They usually contacted each other by phone and saw each other twice a year.

Because of this, Hope was actually quite rebellious before. Merry was only slightly better than her father at taking care of children. More than a year ago, she was not the good girl she is now. Although she didn't have a pierced nose, she had two circles of spikes around her neck, her hair was permed into a Super Saiyan look, with clumps of cones, and thick eye shadow on her eyes. Anyway, most normal parents would have had their blood pressure spiked.

However, after Merry resolutely rushed into the legendary foggy land where there were almost no survivors for her, the mother and daughter experienced some life and death adventures in it, began to understand each other, and untied their knots.

Later, the mother and daughter were met and rescued by Lucas who was also trapped inside. Under Lucas's leadership, they escaped and returned to the normal world, and Hope became what she is now.

Therefore, in addition to factors such as saving lives and returning to the normal world, Lucas is also a witness to the improvement of their mother-daughter relationship, so the two sides have an intimacy beyond the ordinary.

If we have to describe it, it is "a relationship like that of family members who have experienced life and death", not the kind of "family members" who are easily exploited in the live streaming rooms of internet celebrities who sell goods.

Later, Lucas commissioned Merry to sell more than 5 kilograms of gold. Even 5% was a considerable amount of money. In addition, Hope later got % of his factory's shares. Every month, accountants and lawyers would report on the financial status of the factory and how much money she and her cousin could get. On the premise that Lucas had already determined the year-end dividends, this income increased by tens of thousands every month.

If Lucas and Merry didn't really have a spark, and if Lucas looked young and handsome, while her mother was just that piece of cow dung, Hope would have even thought he could be her father...

According to the people in the mysterious country, Lucas is not actually like Jimmy Lin. His face looks young but not too exaggerated. Maybe he just has the face shape and looks that make white people with face blindness feel young.

……

On the other side, Emily at Lucas's house dressed up, carried the insulated box containing tinfoil packages, returned to her home, opened the garage, and drove out in her father's old square muscle car.

Emily didn't drive fast, so it took her more than twenty minutes to get to school. She also spent some time choosing clothes. By the time she arrived at school, it was completely dark.

From a distance, you can see that the parking lot in front of the school is filled with various household vehicles. The side door is open, and several lighting facilities are also turned on, making the school brightly lit.

It goes without saying that someone bribed the school security guards. Otherwise, the large lighting facilities in the sports field would only be turned on when events are held. The electricity bill for turning on those high-voltage lamps for one hour is not cheap.

From the moment she stepped off the car and entered other people's sight, Emily was what is commonly known as a "black hole of vision" and an attention grabber. Besides the fact that she was so beautiful, she was also a leader in the school.

Although she is not a cheerleader or sports leader, she has always been the spokesperson for the rules of the top class in the campus student society, except for a few diplomatic

For students with full talent points, this position is usually an extension of the social class division of the student's family on campus.

For example, when any of Emily's skirts is worth more than one thousand US dollars, or can only be bought through Lucas from another parallel universe, she naturally has some advantages compared to other students, especially girls. She is an extremely smart girl and knows how to use this advantage. Coupled with her natural factors in appearance and temperament, it is easy for her to become the boss in a certain small group.

"Hello, Lucy."

"Hello, Mike"

"No, Zach, don't come near me, I know what you want to say, the answer is still No, bye"

"..."

In front of outsiders, Emily is a completely different person. She is aloof and skilled in handling relationships with all kinds of students. Although she does not divide students into close and distant groups based on interest relationships, but rather based on personal preferences, when facing most students, there are very few who catch her eye, including those who know that she has become an idol star and want to get close to her, but she sends them away with just a few words.

Zach is a star athlete in the school football team, a tall and handsome school idol, and the male protagonist of the couple who killed someone in the school. He may have some illusions and always wanted to pursue Emily, even if someone had already died. But don't say that he is now the male protagonist of this difficult incident. Even in the past, Emily would never say a word to him.

After having the title of unmarried father, although there are still many girls who are fascinated by his appearance, in the eyes of some girls, he has seriously lost most of the value of the title of "school idol", or simply described by the Internet culture of another world: he has lost the mate rights of some girls, permanently.

Behind Emily's beautiful figure, Zack lowered his head somewhat disappointedly, looking at Emily's back with unwillingness in his eyes.

Emily and her sisters had already agreed on a meeting place, and instead of wandering around the school, they went straight to the agreed location, an activity room in the school auditorium.

……

"Wow, look who's here, our star, the stunning Emily Johnson"

When she walked into the agreed activity room, she heard Carolina teasing her about becoming an idol star in a slightly exaggerated tone.

From the initial audition stage to this year's rapid rise to fame, to her successful concert tour in major cities, Emily's friends actually knew the whole process. Some of them who had more time and money even made a special trip to the concert to support her, so it wasn't anything sarcastic, just a well-intentioned joke between close friends.

Hope, Maggie, and Naomi all laughed softly, and then they greeted Emily in a familiar manner.

"Amy, sit here."

"Why did you come so late? It's already dark. Luckily I brought some snacks with me."

"If you're any later, Carrie will tell us about the new boyfriends she made during the holidays."

Several girls talked at once that Carrie was Carolina's nickname. Her close friends and relatives all called her Carrie. She was the uh... girl sea king in this small circle. During the more than two-month long vacation, she met her 23rd to 28th boyfriends.

Among them, the first twenty-two were all written down in her diary. What is a girl sea king? She recorded the size, length and duration of the twenty-two boys in great detail... There were even comments and comparative evaluations, such as who has better endurance, who persisted longer and so on. Emily's friends have all read this diary.

Carolina has never concealed this from her friends. If this trend continues in a few years, she may catch up with Lucas' record of a pop singer in America who has more than 200 ex-boyfriends. However, the latter's record may not be as outstanding as Carolina's. Although both of them keep diaries, Carolina only writes about her ex-boyfriends who she actually killed. Holding hands or kissing is just child's play for her.

She has something to rely on to dare to play like this. Her family is not ordinary. And similar to Hope before, her parents have some problems, and Carolina is also a problem girl.

However, these do not affect the friendship between the girls. Their emotional intelligence and IQ are much more mature than those of their peers. They know how to strike a balance when interacting with each other. Although their personalities are very different, they strangely complement each other quite well.

"Did you bring food too?" Emily put the thermal box on the table and sat down next to Maggie.

"It's a tea party anyway. If you don't bring any snacks, you're just going to sit here and do nothing. That would be so boring. Come and try some of the English snacks and black tea made by my chef. They taste pretty good."

Carolina poured Emily a cup of black tea. She seemed lazy the whole time and only got up from the table when pouring the tea, and then lay down on the table again after pouring the tea.

She was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and pants, and her hair was tied in a loose ponytail, which was a little messy. Compared with the other young ladies, she looked lazy but also had a more mature temperament. She also looked more mature, not old, but about 10 years older than her actual age.

Hope is the least pretty among these sisters, but compared to Carolina, one can still tell her age at a glance.

In addition, the girl named Maggie is a blonde like Emily, but the altitude of the mountain... no altitude, and she is wearing sportswear, which makes her look very straight.

board.

However, she is half a head taller than Emily, and although her figure is straight, she is very slender.

"It just so happens that I brought some food with me, it's a feast, hehe, thank me."

Emily opened the incubator, took out the foil packages from it, and distributed them to the little sisters present.

Hope thought it looked familiar, after all, Lucas was the only one with the tinfoil. She unsealed the bag and it looked and smelled exactly like the grilled steak Lucas had brought to her house.

"Hey, did Lucas send something to your house again? It's just the steak he grilled, right? That's what I had for dinner."

"Oh, so when he said he was going to visit a friend, he actually went to your house. That's right, he probably doesn't have any other acquaintances besides your mother."

Emily suddenly realized.

Only Emily and Hope lived in East Town, and the other three girls lived in other towns. I had only heard of Lucas and often heard Emily and Hope mention him. I knew he was Chinese, but I had never had the chance to meet him in person.

"Hmm..." Carolina ate a piece of grilled steak picked up with a toothpick and snorted exaggeratedly, her face full of joy. It was obvious that she was very satisfied with Lucas's cooking skills.

Maggie and Naomi had similar expressions, but they were much more reserved and didn't make the same strange noises as she did.

While eating beef, the topic suddenly turned to Lucas. Hope asked, "By the way, does your mother agree to date Lucas?"

"No, Lucas is Chinese, and she has some of this..." Emily didn't eat it. Instead, she picked up the teacup with her index finger raised, drank a few sips of black tea, and pointed at her head, indicating that there was something wrong with her mother.

"Oh, what a pity. Lucas is such a good man, but there is a big age gap between him and my mom. Otherwise, I would have let him be my stepfather."

Hope glanced at the incubator and saw several foil packages. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly. She was not an idol star who needed to diet to maintain her figure, so she was naturally very happy.

The other three girls couldn't join in the conversation because they knew nothing about Lucas except that he was an excellent barbecue enthusiast.

"Uh-huh..." Emily cleared her throat with a smug smile on her face.

Several friends were attracted by her and looked over.

"Why does my mom have to accept him? I'm officially announcing here that he's my boyfriend now!"

quiet--

The activity room suddenly became quiet, even the sound of eating could not be heard, and the four girls stared at her in surprise.

"Oh, my God, you slept with him?"

After a brief silence, Carolina suddenly said something shocking.

"puff--"

Emily's composure instantly failed, and she couldn't maintain the smug look on her face and froze.

"What? No! Oh my god, what's going on in your head all day?"

"You said it, he is your boyfriend now"

"We are in a relationship, but we haven't gotten to that stage yet. We haven't slept together...none of that."

"Tsk - it turns out you were just playing house, then why are you so proud?"

Carolina shrugged, looking unimpressed, and took another bite of the roast meat. "But the meat is really good. This man named Lucas is a good cook."

"We're not playing house, we're serious," Emily said loudly to her, slamming the table.

"So, you're really planning on having sex with a Chinese guy?"

Carolina swallowed the meat in her mouth and met her eyes.

"Being in love doesn't mean having sex."

"Well... maybe I'm broken, but... Amy, are you sure he's not kidding you? Oh, no, are you sure your family won't sink him into Rock Lake? I mean the Johnsons..."

Carolina scratched her head and asked another question that was surprising but very possible upon closer thought.

"They dare!"

This was Emily's first reaction, but she was a little unsure afterwards. She had never thought about this question before. She said, as if to answer or to explain herself:

"They are them, I am me, they have no right to control me, it is my freedom to date whoever I want."

Hope next to him thought about it carefully and decided to defend Lucas. She sneered and said, "Are you treating my mother as a decoration? And even if my mother didn't exist, I don't think Johnson or anyone else would be able to do anything to Lucas."

Seeing Hope speak for her, Emily straightened her back and said, "Yes, Merry and Lucas have a good relationship, no one dares to mess with them."

Merri Winter's main reason is that her late father has a very complicated background. Although his position was not high when he retired, he was generally a GoodCop and respected by many people, but in fact many things about him were kept secret. Emily, Carolina, Maggie and Naomi only vaguely knew that their elders were very wary of Merri, but they didn't know the specific reason.

This is also one of the reasons why they are friends with Hope, and Hope herself is a friend worth making friends with.

But despite this, Emily's words also meant that Meri was protecting Lucas... and she did not agree with what Hope was hinting at.

Carolina also retorted: "Lucas is just a Chinese, Hope, I know you know him and have a good relationship with him, but... forget it, he is really just a Chinese. I heard that even the identity issue was given to him by Merry.

Solved

Although Maggie and Naomi did not express their opinions, it was clear from their expressions that they shared the same attitude.

Hope thought about it carefully. Emily had actually told her sisters a long time ago that she liked Lucas very much, but she was usually very aloof. They all thought that Lucas was just trying to flatter her in order to pursue Claire and make her feel good. It was another kind of liking rather than love between a man and a woman.

But today it seems that she is serious.

And because she heard Emily say that Claire was prejudiced against Lucas, she was also holding a grudge and felt that Claire was a little ungrateful. She was happy to see Emily replace Claire as Lucas' lover.

But the attitudes of Carolina and the other two made her quite unhappy... Just like protecting her brother or uncle, Hope also tried her best to protect Lucas.

She knew Lucas much better than Emily did. When he discussed many things with his mother Meri, he did not avoid her, so she roughly knew some of Lucas' ideas in handling affairs in this world.

After organizing her words, she subconsciously looked at the door. There was no one there, so she turned to look at the girls and said:

"You know, I disappeared for a while last year, right?"