Billionaire's Hidden Princess by Alegna Ciee (romance novel chinese novels TXT) 📗

 At that fraction of a moment, Leticia feels like she’s just hallucinating.

Thunderstruck on her seat, she just exchanges looks with Livius and stares at him like he’s some kind of a fleeting mirage. She wonders if this is what she gets for thinking of him all day long.

But then, this train of thoughts of hers doesn’t last long.

Livius proceeds to walk to the front of the classroom, stepping on the platform alongside with their professor. He is wearing a pair of glasses this time – a cool new look that Leticia didn’t know she’d be dying to see until she finally did.

That’s when a round of uncontainable squeals and eager chatters ensue all around the room, stupefying her even more. Girls and boys alike appear to be more than astounded, beholding this man as if he’s some god that descended from heaven.

“Huh? Isn’t that…?” Gabriel blurted out from beside her, immensely flabbergasted.

Before Leticia can make sense of their reactions, though, their professor finally speaks up. With that, everyone’s eyes are finally looking ahead, silence prevailing once again.     

“Good morning, class. I’m aware that all of you have been anticipating our department’s monthly fashion competition that will be taking place next week. For this upcoming contest, our university’s head himself shall be discussing the theme and guidelines. Along with that is a few tips and advices for you, our dearest future fashion designers…” the professor started before giving way for their visitor. 

“Everyone, please welcome our most honored guest for today, Mr. Livius Apollon, the current President of the Apollon Group Holdings.”

While everyone else gives a round of applause at this, Leticia only remains frozen still on her seat. An exhilarating, rioting set of emotions starts to ascend within her, overwhelming her to an unfathomable degree.

Livius takes time to look at her and smiles, but she really can’t return any coherent response at the moment. She’s too nonplussed to even lift a finger. Her heart keeps racing faster and faster as she just continues to let the revelation sink in.

Leticia can’t believe that all this time, she’s actually dating the youngest heir to ever succeed this prestigious university’s head. What’s more, Livius turns out to be the owner of one of this country’s business giants, a famous fashion brand, and a diverse list of commerce overall.   

Everything ends up taking a long while to register. Steam is starting to come out of her with how much she’s turning the gears in her head.

To say that Leticia is mind-blown will probably be an understatement at this point.

Then, without her realizing it, the discussion is already on the roll. Livius has been talking in front for minutes now, and he’s just about to get to the topic regarding the upcoming competition’s theme.

“For this month’s theme, let’s try something different but simple, shall we…?” he trailed off with a meaningful tone, his eyes darting back to her out of nowhere.

“Let’s have you make neckties this time.”

Then, she flinched.

Taken aback by his chosen theme, her eyes widen and blink rapidly in evident surprise. Now, Leticia understands what’s with the knowing smirk on his face. Though it took her a few seconds to connect the dots, she still managed to pick on his allusion.  

“H-He can’t possibly be referring to that one this morning, right…?” she thought to herself with an incredulous expression.

From that point on, Livius continues to take the spotlight all to himself. It lasts a bit longer than expected since the other students keep throwing questions at him as soon as his speech finally ends.

All the while, his line of vision is mostly directed to her direction, taking in every bit of her reaction. He isn’t sure what her main response is going to turn out to be. She may be flummoxed and confounded for the most part, but he can feel that there’s more to this.

By this point, Livius is fully certain that Leticia isn’t after his looks or wealth. But then, that doesn’t make him a bit less curious about her reaction to his true identity.

At first, he believed that she wasn’t going to be comfortable at some points. After all, she never liked being at the center of attention, which just turned out to be where he’s meant to be. Attention is inevitable with a prominent figure like him.   

But then, after learning just how eager Leticia seemed to be when she’s guessing his profession earlier this morning, Livius realized that it won’t really matter in the end.

Whether he’s a salesman, manager, marketing officer or anything, she didn’t mind at all. She’s just happy that she’s going to learn more about him.

“Well, I guess we’re really going to start for real here, Eya…” he thought silently, trying to veil how smitten he was right now as he continued eyeing his girlfriend’s dazed expression from a distance.