Chapter 74: This is my girlfriend

Just as Natasha was desperately trying to rationalize the situation, Julian Vance stood up from his chair.

He walked straight over to Victoria , reaching out and gently taking her slender, soft hand in his.🤝

"Victoria, our table is over here. Come sit with me," Julian said softly, offering her a warm smile.

Natasha’s eyes widened to the absolute extreme as she stared in total, paralyzed disbelief at the two of them holding hands so naturally!

The girlfriend Julian Vance had mentioned... was actually her?!

The customers throughout the cafe, who had been silently holding their breath while watching Victoria and Julian, instantly broke into a wild, excited uproar!

"Holy crap! That stunning goddess is actually this handsome guy’s girlfriend!"

"Wow, they are an absolutely flawless match! Their visuals look like they were literally made for each other in heaven!"

"Did you guys notice that? That woman’s cold, intimidating aura completely softened the exact second she stepped close to that man!"

"Yes, yes! I saw it too! She looked at him with so much love!"

Several young girls at a nearby table cupped their cheeks with starry eyes, gushing in admiration. "The guy is so insanely handsome, and the woman is so breathtakingly beautiful! They look just like the leads in a high-budget romance drama!"

Natasha was still shaking her head in utter denial, muttering to herself like a madwoman.

"Impossible... this is completely impossible!"

"How could Julian Vance possibly have such an extraordinarily beautiful girlfriend?!"

He was supposed to be the devoted simp I discarded! How on earth did he end up with a woman who outshines me in every single way?!

Julian and Victoria walked hand in hand over to the table, stopping directly in front of the stunned, pale-faced Natasha.

Julian looked down at Natasha with a cool, calm expression and motioned toward the breathtaking woman beside him.

"Natasha, let me introduce you," Julian said smoothly, his voice echoing clearly across the table.

"This is my girlfriend, Victoria Sterling."

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"So? Isn’t my girlfriend far better than you, Natasha, in terms of both looks and figure?"

Julian Vance raised an eyebrow, looking down at her with cool detachment.

As the absolute villainess of a romance novel, Victoria Sterling’s visual appearance, aura, and figure were undeniably top-notch. Natasha was merely a minor supporting character. How could anyone possibly compare to the female lead?

"I don’t believe it!"

Natasha suddenly stood up from her chair, her voice sharp and trembling. "I don’t believe it!"

"I don’t believe you two are in a real boyfriend-girlfriend relationship!"

"Julian Vance, you’re lying to me, aren’t you?! This woman is someone you hired to act for you; she’s not your girlfriend at all!"

Julian used to love her so desperately; she had always been his undisputed ideal woman. He had been her devoted, submissive follower for so many years, enduring her cold dismissals and harsh words without complaint or regret. How could someone who claimed to like a person so intensely suddenly fall in love with another woman?!

Therefore, they were definitely not a real couple!

Natasha glared at Victoria, her eyes burning with angry suspicion. "How much money did Julian Vance pay you to act alongside him today? I’ll give you double!"

"I have only one request, and that is to expose Julian Vance!" Natasha pointed a shaking finger at Julian and said through gritted teeth.

No matter what happened, she was determined to expose Julian Vance today!

Victoria looked at Natasha’s frantic, exasperated appearance, her beautiful, dark eyebrows slightly raised. She didn’t say a word.

Natasha gritted her teeth and pushed further, "Do you think twice as much is too little? Then I’ll give you three times!"

Victoria:"..."

Victoria remained completely silent.

Natasha: "Then four times!"

"Six times!" Natasha gritted her teeth in desperation. That was the absolute maximum amount of money she could assemble. She didn’t even know if she could truly afford to give any more than that.

"Oh?"

Victoria let out a low, icy chuckle. "Who told you that I was hired by my Julian to act?"

Natasha scoffed contemptuously, "If this isn’t acting, are you really his girlfriend? How utterly ridiculous!"

Victoria smiled subtly and asked, "Why not?"

Natasha looked at her with pure disdain, "I didn’t expect you to be so dedicated to your acting job."

"Since you refuse to believe my Julian and me, then I’ll just have to prove it to you," Victoria said smoothly.

Hearing those words, Julian’s temple twitched violently. The "proof method" Victoria mentioned was guaranteed to be anything but normal!

A very bad premonition suddenly arose in Natasha’s heart. "What... what do you want to do?!"

Victoria didn’t bother answering her. Instead, she stepped close to Julian and hooked her slender, soft arms tightly around his neck. Standing on her tiptoes, she leaned in close to his ear.

"My Julian... she doesn’t believe in our relationship, so let’s prove it to her right now."

Without waiting for Julian to react, Victoria pressed her warm, crimson lips firmly onto Julian’s.

Ever since she learned that the person Julian was taking her to meet was his former crush Natasha, she had already formulated this exact plan in her mind. She wanted to be intensely intimate with her Julian right in front of Natasha’s face!

"AH!"

Natasha let out a sharp gasp of sheer despair upon seeing the intimate scene unfolding right before her eyes.

While kissing Julian passionately, Victoria subtly glanced sideways toward Natasha, her dark eyebrows raising in a triumphant, arrogant arch as she watched the sheer exasperation and collapse on Natasha’s face. She thoroughly enjoyed watching Natasha’s jealous, tormented expression.

"WOAH!!"

The customers throughout the coffee shop watched Victoria and Julian with rising excitement!

It was so thoroughly pleasing to the eye!

Normally, people found it slightly tacky when couples engaged in heavy public displays of affection. But this couple was a match made in heaven—one was extraordinarily handsome, and the other was breathtakingly gorgeous!

Yes! Whatever they did felt completely right! As for kissing, go right ahead and kiss all you want!

A long moment passed before Victoria finally pulled her lips away from Julian’s, leaning in to press her moist, red lips right against his earlobe.

"My Julian... it’s as delicious as ever~"

Julian: "..."

Is "delicious" even a suitable word to describe a person?! Especially a man! Damn it! Victoria really never plays by the rules!

Victoria’s lips were still glistening with a delicate moisture from the kiss. Her rosy lips parted slightly as she turned back to Natasha, "Miss Natasha, can you believe now that my Julian and I are a real couple?"

Natasha stared at Julian with bloodshot, trembling eyes.

From the exact moment Julian and Victoria started kissing, her eyes had been filled with total, horrified disbelief.

Julian Vance had actually kissed another woman right in front of her! It was so utterly filthy! How could he get so intimate with another woman?! How could he do that to her?!

"Julian Vance," Natasha said, biting her lip until it bled, "your performance is indeed very realistic!"

"But even if you two kissed, I still won’t believe it!"

Julian Vance had always liked her and only her! Just a month ago, he had used all the money he earned from working multiple exhausting part-time jobs just to buy her an expensive birthday gift. It was fundamentally impossible for him to change his mind so quickly!

Even when the undeniable facts were thrust right in front of her face, Natasha’s overwhelming vanity still refused to accept reality. She simply could not accept that the submissive simp who had chased after her for years would one day fall for another woman!

The surrounding customers in the coffee shop shook their heads in utter disbelief at Natasha’s reaction.

"Wait, she actually thinks this guy still likes her? So when she sees him being intimate with a gorgeous woman, she assumes it’s just an act?!"

"That must be it! This woman is far too narcissistic! Do they look like they’re acting?! They are clearly a deeply sweet and loving couple!"

"At first, when it was just the two of them sitting at the same table, I thought they looked somewhat decent together. But now that this stunning goddess has appeared, I feel like this narcissist isn’t even worthy to wipe that guy’s shoes!"

These harsh, ridiculing whispers reached Natasha’s ears clearly, piercing her pride like sharp knives.

Natasha simply could not accept it! She turned around and yelled frantically at the crowd, "What do you outsiders know?!"

She was the woman Julian Vance had cherished for years! Back when he was about to faint from severe hunger, she was the one who threw two steamed buns at him! Although those two steamed buns had fallen onto the dirty ground and were meant to be fed to stray dogs, Julian didn’t know that at the time. To him, she was his savior and ideal goddess! No matter how beautiful or well-proportioned this woman was, she could never replace her standing in Julian’s heart!

"Whether you believe it or not is none of my business," Julian sneered coldly, ignoring her frantic outburst entirely.

"Victoria, let me take you back," Julian said, standing up.

"Julian, aren’t we going to stay and have dinner with Miss Natasha?" Victoria asked softly, her dark eyes flashing with subtle playfulness.

This was a rare opportunity for her and her Julian to display their affection directly in front of his former crush, and she didn’t want to leave so easily.