Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime

Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Being a Bridesmaid_1

Alexander Summers told Purple Summers that the engagement was not only to consolidate his own power but also to assure Lily Howard.

The Howard family was like a small dynasty, and Lily was the princess. A princess is usually fragile, without real power, and can be married off at any moment, to be exploited by others. Especially in the Howard family, with an abundance of princes and princesses, they were not highly valued. If Lily, as a princess, wanted to live a life of noble splendor, she needed to cooperate with Alexander Summers.

Alexander was like a regent.

The Howard family respected him, feared him, submitted to his authority, and at the same time deeply worried, concerned that their small dynasty might one day have a change of regime.

Therefore, Alexander and Lily made such an absurd move.

Alexander had reached his current position due to a mix of many reasons, including Damian Howard’s favor, his own ambition, and the pressures and forcings from various parties… He had been through so much darkness and his unique upbringing had shaped his personality; even if Purple Summers really was a warm sun, she couldn’t illuminate his entire heart.

To try to change a man with love alone is a delusion.

Purple Summers felt that, instead of being a warm sun, she would rather be a rope, holding back Alexander, preventing him from falling too deep into that dark abyss.

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Purple Summers neither agreed nor disagreed with Alexander and Lily’s plan.

Making sacrifices for love seems incredibly romantic and beautiful, and she was not immune to such thinking. However, if she were to accept this engagement with joy and cheer for love’s sake, she would feel cheap and lowly.

So Purple Summers maintained her silence.

The date for the engagement reception was quickly set for the first of next month.

——April Fool’s Day, a day full of jokes and comedy.

In fact, the date felt a bit rushed, with less than two weeks’ time left. Purple Summers inwardly complained: Perhaps it was because the two main characters of the engagement didn’t take the matter seriously.

It was, after all, just a show put on for the rest of the Howard family.

Purple Summers thought the matter would have nothing to do with her, letting Alexander and Lily do as they pleased. Unexpectedly, the next day after school, she saw Lily Howard waiting for her at the school gate.

“Roy Howard is too stingy to give me your phone number,” Lily Howard said with a helpless shrug, “so I had no choice but to wait for you here.”

Purple Summers was surprised and wanted to ask Lily Howard how she knew that she was studying at Grey, but then she remembered that during their last encounter, she was wearing Grey’s school uniform…

“What do you need from me?” Purple Summers asked, puzzled, glancing at the students nearby.

Many female students were looking at Lily Howard.

Lily Howard was handsome.

A handsome man is not necessarily handsome, but a handsome man is definitely very handsome.

Lily Howard leaned against a white sports car, dressed in a leather jacket and leather pants, with medium-length black hair, a cigarette held between two fingers, exuding an air of rakish elegance while smoking.

Not only was she handsome, but she also had a bit of a bad and wicked air about her.

For a woman… especially for sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, this was an extremely lethal charm.

“Sarah insists on being my bridesmaid,” Lily Howard smiled, “but her Huaya Language isn’t very good. I’m afraid that I won’t be able to take care of her when there are many guests, so I want to ask you to be my bridesmaid to look after her as well.”

An engagement, after all, is not a wedding, and it’s unusual to require bridesmaids.

And… being Lily Howard’s bridesmaid?

Purple Summers found it hard to picture the scene.

After hesitating for a moment, Lily Howard smiled and said again, “Please, Ms. Summers.”

Purple Summers apologetically said, “But I don’t speak French…”

If even communication was an issue, how could she take care of someone else?

“It doesn’t matter, as long as you speak slowly without complex phrases, Sarah can understand,” Lily Howard pleaded again, “Here, apart from me and Roy Howard, she only knows you, Ms. Summers. Please, help me out.”