The Principessa Bought a Genius Boyfriend Chapter 09
“I just disappeared, I didn’t lose my memory.”Â
I stared at her coldly.Â
“After Vincent and I got together, you cornered meÂ
in the girls‘ bathroom. Do you remember what youÂ
said back then?Â
“You said–how much did you pay to keep Vincent,Â
Isabella?”Â
Aurora panicked. “I–I don’t remember…”Â
“Then later when people called Vincent a gigolo to his face, did you forget that too? That awful nickname started spreading from you, didn’t it?”Â
“No, it didn’t, you’re just making this up.”Â
“I don’t know the rules of your little circle, but what would fans think if it got out that a super star used to bully classmates with words?”Â
“Isabella!” Aurora raised her voice. “You’re the oneÂ
spreading lies now!”Â
“Oh? Then do you want me to get a few oldÂ
classmates to back me up?”Â
She deflated in an instant.Â
“Please, Isabella, I’ll give you whatever amount ofÂ
money you want, just stop bringing this up, okay?Â
“Don’t tell Vincent, I was young and stupid backÂ
then and I hurt him, but I really love him now, I canÂ
make it up to him.”Â
“You think you only hurt him?”Â
I shook my head in resignation.Â
“Aurora, you hurt me too.”Â
“I’ll apologize to you!” She panicked. “PleaseÂ
Isabella, don’t tell Vincent, don’t ruin the image IÂ
have of me in his head…”Â
Before she finished talking, the curtain of theÂ
exam room suddenly pulled open.Â
Vincent stood by the window.Â
It looked like he’d been standing there for a longÂ
time.Â
Aurora left, devastated and out of her mind.Â
Vincent was never a forgiving guy anyway.Â
He hated those old rumors more than anything, soÂ
he didn’t give Aurora any grace.Â
Vincent didn’t usually swear much.Â
But he was a top student, he could leave someoneÂ
with lifelong trauma without uttering a singleÂ
curse word.Â
Aurora probably wouldn’t dare show her faceÂ
around him ever again after that.Â
“Are you okay?” I looked at Vincent.Â
His cuts were shallow and already cleaned up.Â
“Will this mess up your company?”Â
“Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal. But Marcus is gonna need stitches.”Â
I couldn’t help but curse, “Stitches is getting off easy. Hope the bastard gets disfigured.”Â
Vincent suddenly smiled. “That’s the you I know.”Â
“What?”Â
“That’s the real you. How long has it been since you said something this unapologetic? Say more, IÂ
wanna hear it.”Â
I froze.Â
I really was reckless back then. I had an entire family backing me, I could do whatever I wanted.Â
I couldn’t help but curse another one. “Fuck thisÂ
business shit, all of them are just a bunch of liars.”Â
“And more?”Â
“Prices went up again, how the hell is anyoneÂ
supposed to live like this?”Â
“Good, keep going.”Â
“Fucking overtime, I just wanna stay home andÂ
watch TV and sleep.”Â
“Are you complaining about me?”Â
“I’m not, how would I dare.”Â
“You’d dare. You always would.”Â
Sunlight hit the snow, and we bickered the entireÂ
way.Â
Suddenly it felt like we were back in college again.Â
I let out all the emotions I’d bottled up over theÂ
years, and by the end I was crying.Â
“Wait for me, okay? I’ll pay all the money back toÂ
you.”Â
Vincent started panicking all over again.Â
“What are you talking about? And why did youÂ
suddenly get so mad before? I was wrong to payÂ
your debt without asking, but you couldn’t justÂ
ignore me, okay?”Â
“You thought of me as a burden, how was IÂ
supposed to talk to you?”Â
“A burden?” Vincent frowned. “Who said that?”Â
“Aurora…”Â
Wait, could this have just been her messing withÂ
me?Â
But the screenshot was definitely real.Â
I pulled up our chat history.Â
Vincent got so angry reading it.Â
“I wasn’t talking about you at all!”Â
Vincent pulled up the chat history on his ownÂ
phone.Â
He was talking to his friend about paying off a batch of overdue project invoices for his company.Â
That was what the whole conversation was about before all the other stuff happened.Â
Somehow the chat got into Aurora’s hands, sheÂ
cut it off, and twisted the meaning completely.Â
“But how did she know you were gonna help meÂ
pay my debt?”Â
“She has experience with this sort of thing, payingÂ
other people’s debts. I just asked her about itÂ
once.”

