The story begin

"Don't dirty my expensive carpet with your tears!" Reagan shouted loudly right in front of Crystal who was kneeling on the floor with her head down. "You're not here to cry, you're here in my room because of work. So don't act stupid."

"I'm not crying," Crystal replied, lying slightly. "I just suddenly miss my mother."

Reagan huffed in annoyance. "I can't accept any excuses from you."

"Sorry."

"Don't do it again and quickly fix your makeup, I don't want grandpa to think anything wrong," Reagan said curtly as he buttoned his shirt again. "And remember your duty, you must make my grandfather believe in this marriage."

Crystal nodded slowly, not daring to lift her face up. Crystal didn't want to make Reagan even angrier if he saw her tears. After making sure Reagan returned to the room where his clothes and all his personal equipment were, Crystal hurriedly got up from the floor. By using the facial tissue provided on the dressing table while Crystal wiped the remaining tears from her face, according to Reagan's previous request Crystal began to apply makeup trying to cover her puffy eyes and face with a little skincare product that she had, finally Crystal applied peach-colored lip gloss to her lips. as usual when going to work at Mrs. Lu's restaurant.

With simple makeup, Crystal felt her appearance was much better. Her face looked fresher, though the sadness in her eyes was still visible.

"If you're ready then we can..."

Reagan immediately covered his mouth when he saw Crystal's appearance.

"Have you retouch your makeup?" asked Reagan in a tone that was so reproachful, it was obvious that Reagan looked so disappointed with Crystal's simple make-up. "Why is there no change?"

Crystal's cheeks immediately flushed with embarrassment, so far no one has ever had a problem with her makeup. After all, no matter how beautiful she is, no one will see her makeup, right?

Reagan cursed his own stupidity for forgetting to prepare makeup for Crystal, he forgot that the girl he was currently working with was from the lower classes who couldn't possibly know expensive makeup like his ex-girlfriends who were always on point with extraordinary makeup on their faces.

"I-I already..."

"Ok forget it!" Reagan interrupted quickly. "It's my fault, I forgot to take you shopping before heading back to London. I'll fix this later, now that we're out it looks like my grandfather and the others are already waiting at the dinner table. The important thing is that today you can do your job well and remember everything. important thing I gave you earlier."

Crystal nodded silently.

"Okay, now we're out," Reagan said again. "First day as husband and wife in front of everyone, once again I remind you to be careful and don't let me down. Don't hurt me by taking you all the way from Melbourne. Now take my hand and be friendly, show everyone that We are a married couple who love each other."

Reagan stretched out his left hand toward Crystal lazily, if it weren't for his sake he certainly wouldn't have done something like this. Crystal, who was confused and didn't understand what Reagan meant by her words, just kept quiet and didn't do anything. Crystal was afraid of making mistakes that would eventually make Reagan angry with her. Reagan roughly grabbed Crystal's hand and gripped it tightly.

"We have to join hands like this to show our affection to everyone," said Reagan hoarsely, in the past many beautiful and sexy girls vying for close to Reagan and this time Reagan had to humble himself by grabbing the hand of a girl who was completely not pretty and attractive to grip. Damn…damn…

"What..does it have to be like this?" Crystal's voice trembled as she asked, Crystal who had absolutely no experience with any men felt uncomfortable with the presence of Reagan's big hands which were currently gripping her tiny fingers so tightly. "Is there no other way we can do it?"

Reagan raised his eyebrows, offended by Crystal's words. "Don't sweat it, I'm doing this out of necessity not because I want to. Just follow me and talk more, once we get out the door you should be my perfect wife."

Crystal straightened up, her heart beating twice as fast. All of Reagan's words made her uneasy and scared, Crystal worried that if she made a mistake that would have a fatal impact on the play she was doing with Reagan. Crystal didn't have that much money to pay the fine stated in the contract she signed two days ago.

"Let's go out and carry out our roles well without the slightest mistake, you will definitely not regret being my pretend wife Crys. With all the luxuries that you will soon get I am sure a thousand percent you will definitely like it, where else will you get everything?" a luxury for free like this? Only with me will you get it, so be grateful."

"I'm grateful," Crystal answered weakly, her chest hurting at Reagan's insult. Reagan really trampled on her pride.

Reagan, who did not see the sad expression on Crystal's face, chose to strengthen his heart to face his grandfather and his very smart assistant James. All Reagan hopes for now is that Crystal can carry out her duties well over the next year so that he can unravel the mystery of his parents' deaths with ease if he becomes the main heir to the West family business.

Reagan had no idea that he was currently making a lantern in his dark and cold life.

Continued