After Den said goodbye to the Zouch family, he got into his car and drove to his favorite cafe.


    Upon arriving at the cafe, a tinum-haired young man with beautiful blue sapphire eyes smiled at him and waved his hand.


    "Hey, pretty boy! You came finally. I''ve been waiting for you."


    Den rolled his eyeszily at the nickname ''pretty boy'' from his best friend.


    "What are you? Are you a kid? Until when are you going to call me like that?"


    "Until you get married."


    "If I get married, you will stop calling me pretty boy?" Den snorted as if he couldn''t believe his best friend would actually get rid of that nickname he had been pinning since ten years ago.


    "Right. I will call you pretty man."


    Den rose to his feet and moved as if he wanted to change seats making his best friend hold his arm whileughing in amusement.


    "I''m just kidding."


    "…" Den did notment as he felt something cold on his arm.


    Again… his friend''s skin temperature turned cold like ice.


    Axrd Canvedish was a college friend and theplete opposite of him. Axrd was someone who smiled easily and rarely got angry. He could even carry himself well no matter whether the interlocutor was a much senior or younger person.


    When Axrd was reserved and dignified, Den felt like he was talking to his father. Other times, Den felt like talking to a child when the young man was being mischief and pulled his leg.


    To be honest, Den wasn''t someone who wasfortable spending time with people like Axrd. But, somehow… he felt that the young man had his own charisma that made him feelfortable being friends with him.


    Without realizing it, time flew by, and they had been friends for more than ten years.


    Even so, he still couldn''t find an answer to his friend''s unusual cold skin. Sometimes the man''s body temperature was too cold to freeze things around him, but sometimes the man''s temperature returned to normal.


    Of course, Den had asked him this and suspected that Axrd had a gic disorder and that his body temperature would fluctuate. But the man replied casually, and he didn''t need to worry about it.


    "What''s wrong? Why do you look like you just see a ghost?"


    "Your hand is cold." came the short reply from him.


    Axrd lifted his hand from Den''s arm then stuck his hand into his jacket pocket without losing his yful smile.


    "Isn''t it freezing today?"


    "Now is summer."


    "I know. But today is very cold. "


    "Then stay at home."


    "I can not. I have to take care of mypany… hey, are you going to be sponsoring a fashion show at the g auction event? Can I promote my essories?"


    "I''ve made the agreement letter. You just have toe to the office and sign it. Mrs. Perkins will help you as usual."


    "Wow, that was fast. How do you know I want to offer my product?"


    "I can read your pattern."


    Axrd chuckled at that, then remembered the arranged marriage that Mrs. ck made for her only son.


    "How was your first meeting? Is Miss Zouch as pretty as people say?"


    "Just so-so."


    "In what way? Is it true that she''s not pretty? "


    "If you are really interested in her, why don''t you be her future husband?"


    Axrd smiled faintly at that. "You know I can''t fall in love."


    "Well, try saying that when you find the one."


    "It''s not like you found one. Wait... Have you found it?" Axel asked teasingly.


    "…" But Den didn''t answer him and just took a delicious sip of his ck coffee.


    "Impossible. Have you found the one? Who is it? Is it Miss Zouch?"


    Den frowned at his friend''s guess. Did his best friend''s ears have a problem, so he couldn''t hear that he wasn''t interested in Kaylee Zouch? Or maybe he had to split Axel''s brain to find out what kind of circuit was formted in it.


    "Remind me why I still want to see you again even though you are so annoying?"


    Axrd''sughter escaped from his throat hearing that and settled his arm around Den''s shoulder as if he were hugging a child. "You know you can''t escape my charm."


    Den rolled his eyeszily, but the corners of his lips lifted slightly because what the young man said was true.


    Satisfied with enjoying coffee with his best friend, Den returned to his apartment and turned on hisptop to view a video he had seen in the past two weeks.


    The video was a recording of the recital exam at M University two weeks ago. The only thing that made him found it memorable was the piano recital of an applicant named Nichs Larson.


    The sound of the piano clinking and the way the boy channeled each melody''s dynamics made him feel like walking on a green meadow.


    There was no mistaking it… this child… indeed this teenage boy was the person he had been looking for! He was sure of it.


    "Nichs Larson, huh. I can''t wait to see you on campus."


    Why does Den want to find someone? What will happen when Den and ''Nick'' (Kaylee in disguise) meet on campus? Will Den realize that one of his students is his mother''s daughter-inw candidate?


    Stay tuned in the next chapters.