Being Pursued By Ex-husband

Chapter 649 Incompetent

Due to the brief incident earlier, Celine had been hiding in her room. It was only when Lewinn came upstairs to call her for dinner that she left her room and headed downstairs.

Katherine and the rest were already seated at the dining table, and the table was already set.

Lewinn and Katherine were sitting on each side of Joshua, and Rowen was right next to Lewinn. Glancing briefly at the only seat left between Rowen and Katherine, Celine could only sit there.

Katherine, who always had a carefree attitude, naturally did not notice Celine’s moodiness.

Celine had always been shy and reserved, so she hardly spoke after sitting down and only focused on eating with her head lowered.

Katherine did not mind her either, and it was only when they talked about school did Katherine glance at Celine. “Celine, Rowie is in the same class as you. Since he’ll be staying at home these few days, you two can go to school together.”

Earlier in the morning, Celine had requested to go to school by herself from now on without needing Katherine or Lewinn to send her. However, Katherine was still worried as Celine had only come over here not many days ago.

Coincidentally, Rowen would be staying at their home for that period of time, and the two of them were in the same class, so going to school together was the best solution.

Katherine got more excited the more she thought about it. “Rowie, remember to bring Celine with you when you go to school tomorrow morning.”

“Got it,” Rowen replied. His gaze fell on the girl, whose head was lowered the whole time, beside him. Recalling the incident with the basketball that afternoon, he snickered in his head.

What a fool.

Celine’s grip on her fork tightened as she said hesitantly, “Mrs. Lewis.”

The girl’s voice was so gentle and delicate that even Katherine unconsciously spoke more softly than usual. “What’s wrong, Celine?”

“One of our classmates stays here as well. We promised to go to school together.”

Katherine was stunned for a moment. “Ah, you’ve made a new friend so quickly! That’s great! In fact, that’s better! Since the three of you are classmates and Rowie is a boy, it’ll be safer if the three of you go together.”

Suddenly, Lewinn thought of something and looked at Rowen.

Rowen’s expression was grim. “Aunt Katherine, I suddenly remembered that I have to attend training sessions in the morning for competition in the summer. I can’t go to school with them.”

Katherine felt a little disappointed. “Ah, so wouldn’t you have to leave the house very early in the morning?”

“Yes,” Rowen casually replied.

Katherine no longer insisted on her suggestion and instead said, “Then I’ll wake up earlier to make you breakfast tomorrow.”

“It’s all right, Aunt Katherine. I wouldn’t want to bother you. I’ll eat breakfast in school.”

As someone who loved to sleep in, Katherine was more than happy to hear that she did not need to wake up early. “Okay, then.”

Celine heaved a sigh of relief. She did not want to go to school with Rowen either.

If Harper saw her with Rowen the next day, it would be even tougher to explain herself.

Sensing the girl beside him obviously heaving a sigh of relief, Rowen turned his head and cast a plain glance at her.

Celine felt a little guilty and hurriedly lowered her head, pretending to take a sip of her soup.

After dinner, Katherine let the three of them return to their rooms to study. Rowen instantly ran to Lewinn’s room with the excuse that Lewinn would tutor him when he was actually there for something else.

Celine also returned to her room. She had finished most of her homework in school and was only left with a few Mathematics questions.

She had always been poor in Mathematics, and the worse she did, the less motivated she was to

complete her work.

It was only four Mathematics questions, but Celine could not finish them even after nearly an hour. In the end, she decided to give up and randomly wrote a few steps before closing the book. She then took out her language textbooks to study and prepare herself before the lesson.

Around nine o’clock, Celine kept her books in her school bag. It was only before she was about to bathe that she remembered what happened with Xen the previous night.

Last night, she had waited for Xen’s reply for more than half an hour. When Katherine had come in to give her a glass of milk, she had forgotten about Xen after drinking the milk.

Although Celine did not really play games, her grandmother had taught her that she should always keep her word.

She had promised to make it up to Xen by buying him a skin, and she could not simply break her promise.

After thinking about it for a while, she eventually logged on to the game.

The moment she entered the game, she saw the message that Xen had sent at half past eleven the previous night. It read: No need.

Feeling slightly dejected, Celine clicked on his profile to see which heroes he would usually play.

It turned out that Xen mostly played heroes who were assassins. Celine picked a hero he played the most often and gifted him that hero’s skin.

Although it cost less than a hundred, Celine’s heart still ached slightly.

Xen’s profile picture was still grey, which meant he was not online.

After fulfilling her promise, Celine felt much more relieved and intended to leave the game, bathe, and go to sleep.

However, just as she was about to log off, Enzer sent a team invitation to her.

Celine rejected the invitation without thinking twice. After being rejected thrice, Enzer straightaway called her on WhatsApp and asked, “Why did you reject me?”

“I want to rest.”

“Play one round with me. I’ll give you a hundred if you play one round.”

Celine was poor, but she knew how to differentiate between money that she should and should not earn. “I really want to rest now.”

However, Enzer had his own way of making Celine give in. “You’re studying at Gautier High School, and you’re in Grade Eleven Class Seven, right? Do you want me to go find you tomorrow?”

If it were anyone else threatening her, Celine would not have cared. However, Enzer was a scoundrel.

With her face red from anger, Celine gave in. “I’ll only play one round!”

“Sure, you little money-grubber!”

After entering the game, Enzer realized that Celine had already attained the status of a level-one VIP and was utterly shocked. “You spent real money on this game?”

Embarrassed, Celine admitted, “Yes. The game has started. Stay focused and play seriously.”

Recalling that his performance in-game was terrible the previous night, which made him lose face, Enzer actually started playing seriously after hearing Celine’s words.

Subsequently, Enzer performed rather well as he was getting either triple-kills or quadra-kills. Eventually, he even got a penta-kill.

He had about thirty more seconds before he could revive, but his teammates were still alive. He was sure that they would win the game this round.

Taking a sip of water, Enzer asked, “What do you think? Wasn’t I cool?”

Celine did not reply immediately as she was busy tapping on the crystal in the opponent’s base to cause damage. When the opponent’s crystal was destroyed, she hurriedly said, “Yeah, you’re very cool. I’ll go to sleep now.”

Enzer was satisfied. “Okay, go to sleep. Otherwise, you can’t grow any taller.”

Celine did not reply to him. When the game summary page appeared, she immediately exited the group.

I won’t play this game again.

The moment she had that thought, she received a team invitation.

It was Xen. Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

Celine’s hand trembled and she accidentally rejected the invitation.

The other party seemed patient as he sent her an invitation again.

With a red face, Celine accepted the invitation. After she joined the team, Xen did not say anything and instantly started the game.

Celine only realized that her rank was roughly the same as Xen’s when she was on the page to choose which heroes to play.

As Chermond had told her many things, Celine quickly understood that this was Xen’s alternate account.

Celine was surprised. She wondered why Xen was using an alternate account. However, Xen seemed to have muted himself, and Celine was too shy to speak up.

It was obvious that Xen’s skills were much better than Enzer’s. He took only six to seven minutes to finish one round. After half an hour, Xen did not start the game immediately again. Instead, he sent a message to the group, which read: Come again at nine o’clock tomorrow night.

After sending that, Xen left the group.

Celine was confused as she stared at her phone. Doesn’t he think I’m incompetent?