Chapter 5 Are you alright

Fiona then took a macaroon from the pastry rack and said, "Alright, since you behaved well today, I'll allow you to have a piece of macaroon."

　　"One piece?" Lyndon looked at her with dissatisfaction with this quantity.

　　"Too much?" Fiona pretended not to understand. "Then half a piece is fine."

　　After finishing speaking, they were about to break the macaroons apart. However, Lyndon grabbed her hand before she could retract it, snatched the macaroon from her hand, and licked her fingers.

　　In public, Fiona looked around and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there were no other people in the restaurant except for Joseph's table. She quickly turned back and asked Lyndon, "Are you a dog?"

　　"I am a tiger!"

　　"......"

　　Two people faced each other like childish kids. Joseph gazed from afar at Fiona's slender white fingers, unable to help but lose himself in thought for a long time.

　　He lowered his head and opened the message interface with Fiona from his phone. After a long time, he couldn't resist and sent a message to her.

　　Fiona, who was wiping her hands, felt her phone vibrate. She unlocked the screen and saw Joseph's message with only a word - "Boyfriend?"

　　**

　　After winning the competition "New York Angels", Fiona quickly became famous.

　　There were many similar competitions back then, so she originally had no chance of becoming famous in one shot. But she was lucky and was chosen by her current employer, Moonlight Entertainment.

　　Under the company's packaging hype, she quickly became somewhat famous in the entertainment industry.

　　Meeting Joseph again was a very normal thing.

　　The Thomas family was engaged in the production and sales of high-end luxury goods, including jewelry, perfume, cosmetics, shoes, and bags. They were among the best in New York and even in America. Joseph, as the heir of the Thomas Group, was exactly the type of person that Fiona, a small celebrity, should strive to flatter in the world of fame and fortune.

　　The first time Fiona met Joseph after becoming famous was at a charity ball. Joseph had a female companion with him, and Fiona had a male companion with her. They looked at each other and didn't greet each other tacitly.

　　It was because of the first tacit understanding that the two met a few more times later, but Joseph seemed to not recognize Fiona at all.

　　Until later, at a wealthy businessman's daughter's birthday banquet, Fiona was injured and Joseph finally spoke up, taking the initiative to talk to her.

　　Fiona remembered, it was a summer four years ago.

　　A wealthy man held a party for his daughter on his yacht. Since his daughter studies fashion design, she planned to showcase her own creations during the event. Therefore, the wealthy man invited a group of models, including Fiona, to walk the runway.

　　Those clothes, in Fiona's current perspective, are actually poorly designed, but they highlight the figure exceptionally well. So after Fiona walked the show wearing those clothes, she inevitably caught the attention of a certain wayward young man.

　　"See, my coat was knocked into the water, how do you plan to compensate me?" The greasy second-generation rich man kept pestering Fiona. It was clear that he accidentally dropped his coat into the sea while hanging it on the railing, but he still insisted on blaming Fiona.

　　Fiona had been in this industry for some time now and had experience dealing with such situations.

　　Originally, based on her past experience, as long as she flattered him a little, she could easily get away without offending anyone.

　　But unexpectedly, at that moment, she saw Joseph.

　　So, she pretended not to understand the implied meaning in the words of the rich second generation, took off her coat and jumped into the sea to help retrieve the so-called "coat that she had knocked into the sea" for the rich second generation.

　　The day was sunny with a gentle breeze, and the sea was calm. For Fiona, who was good at swimming, it was no problem to go into the sea to fish something out. Except for the jellyfish floating in the sea.

　　Fiona actually saw it early on, but the trick was also part of her plan.

　　So when she climbed onto the yacht with her jacket on, her thighs, arms, back...were all stung by jellyfish.

　　"What's wrong with you?" The young man looked at the red and swollen patches all over her body, completely losing interest. He didn't even want his jacket anymore and left in a fit of anger.

　　Fiona immediately showed a painful expression and carefully touched her wound... Then, there were footsteps and Joseph frowned at her, "Are you alright?"

　　That was the first sentence the two said after their reunion. He then took her to the lounge and helped her treat her wounds.

　　He first used seawater to wash the areas where she was stung, then used soap to create delicate foam to apply to the red and swollen areas. Finally, he took out a card from his wallet and gently scraped away the jellyfish stinging cells remaining on her skin, patiently helping her to remove them.

　　"Why do you seem to be very good at dealing with this kind of wound?"

　　"Before, I was stung and didn't handle it properly, resulting in swelling for a week, so I learned from it."

　　"Do I have to swell for a week? Isn't that very painful? Don't scare me."

　　"I was too lazy to go to the hospital and didn't handle it properly myself, so that's why it took so long. You shouldn't have to worry about it."

　　......

　　They chatted with each other without mentioning the incident where they pretended not to know each other before. However, they tacitly understood each other and it felt like they had become friends again.

　　Joseph washed Fiona's wound again with seawater and applied anti-inflammatory ointment to it.