True Fated Marriage (Grace and Heinz)
Chapter 1472

"Oh please!" Adrian sneered. "Are you shy? Come on, tell us about the type of guys you fancy."

"What do you mean by shy?" Leah rolled her eyes at him, and a sly light gleamed in her eyes. She glanced at Ernest and said to Adrian, "I actually have a crush on you. So, are we going to date each other?" "Pfft!" Adrian almost laughed out loud. He looked at Leah and naturally saw that she was staring at Ernest. "Was that directed towards me or Ernest?"

Although Ernest bore a tranquil expression, his eyes were still as black as ink, and the glimmer in his gaze made it difficult to make out what thoughts he had in his head.

Leah turned her gaze indifferently to Adrian and said with a small smile, "You're the one who asked me the question, why are you dragging Ernest into this? He's not the kind of person who likes to joke around."

Adrian smiled even brighter, as if he had long seen through Leah's thoughts. He said, "You want to use me a shield, that's fine, but Leah, you are a girl. These jokes will only put you at a disadvantage."

Leah shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. She said in a relaxed manner, "Thank you for looking out for me. I might somehow be able to like you for your appearance, but personality wise, you're too much of a ruckus. I prefer the calm and collected type."

"Ernest is calm and collected," Adrian said with a smile.

Leah glanced in the direction of Ernest.

He kept smiling softly as he stared at Leah. It was impossible to figure out his thoughts behind the deep look in his eyes.

Leah laughed and said, "I won't deny that he is, but sometimes being too calm is no fun."

"Really?" Adrian smiled again and said, "You're quite picky."

"That I am, which is why I'd rather have something of quality or have nothing at all," Leah said and sighed again. "Who cares about being lovey-dovey right now if they could have a lasting love?"

"You are indeed insightful." Adrian looked at Leah and then at Ernest. He then withdrew his gaze and looked at the mountains in the distance. "When you're hopelessly in love, all you can think of is them." "I feel like eating pork chops," Leah said out of

nowhere.

Adrian was thrown off balance at the jarring transition of their conversation's topic. "Miss Winston, aren't you changing the topic from love to pork chops a little too quickly?"

"Do you think that's quick?" Leah shrugged her shoulders and asked in confusion, "I don't think so. Aren't you hungry? Don't you want to eat some meat?"

Ernest smiled without saying anything.

Adrian said, "What do you think, Ernest?"

"Let's eat." He always went with the flow.

Adrian nodded and said to Leah, "Since Ernest says so, then let's go."

When the three of them got to the parking lot at the foot of the mountain, they found that the car Maria and Liam came in was indeed already gone.

They drove to a rather unique restaurant not far from the foot of the mountain and sat in a booth by a pavilion, ready to dine in.

Leah whipped out her cell phone and scrolled through the comments on her book online. Looking at the reviews, there was an exceptional variety of questions directed at her.

Surprisingly, there was a comment asking when the male and female lead would get together.

She immediately typed out a reply. "They just got to know each other. If they got together now, their relationship would be too shallow."

Ernest was also looking at his cell phone, scrolling through Leah's book's section absentmindedly. When he reached the comment section, suddenly he saw a recent reply from the author. Bewildered, he instinctively took a glance at Leah.

Leah was still looking down at her cell phone, not realizing Ernest was staring at her.

She continued replying to the variety of comments. Some were discussing the plot, and some were criticizing the male and female leads.

For every negative comment regarding the male lead, she would respond. "Stop trashing the male lead. If he's arrogant, then so be it. Complain about the female lead all you want, but slandering the male lead is where I draw the line."

The readers began accusing the author of playing favoritism.

Leah admitted without hesitation. "Yes, I'm biased towards the male lead. I feel like my maternal instincts are activated whenever I look at him. As for the female lead, I'm like her stepmother." Ernest frowned slightly.

She continued scrolling through the discussions when a rather bold comment caught her eye. It asked. "Does your male lead ever masturbate?"

As a seasoned boys love enthusiast, Leah replied flatly. "You should just ask the male lead about it. I'm not a guy, how would I know?"

Seeing her reply, Ernest immediately put his cell phone away. Although there was a smile on his face, his eyes were glossed with embarrassment and shame.

A sudden thud echoed through the room.

Leah slammed her cell phone on the table.

"What's wrong?" Adrian looked at her and asked, "Looking at you, did something unpleasant happen?"

"There's something puzzling me," Leah said. "This must be one of the downsides of not having a boyfriend."

"What is it?" Adrian asked curiously.

"It's hard for me to say." Leah looked back and forth between the two of them. She hesitated, refusing to say anything for a long while.

Ernest had a bad feeling about it. He debated within himself if he should avoid the situation for a while, knowing the extent of how bizarre her questions could be.

Adrian was getting impatient and spoke up, "If you want to say it, just say it already. We are all open-minded. What are you biting your tongue for?"

"All right!" Leah nodded as if she had made up her mind. "I might as well say it, since we might not be seeing each other for a while and we don't know when we'll be able to meet again after this. We're not that close anyway, so I don't have to feel embarrassed about it. I'll just ask you both straight away, but don't think of me as some kind of crude girl, even though I do admit I tend to be a little uncouth sometimes. Treat this as a scientific research if you will."

"Hurry up and tell us already, what are you trying to ask?"

"I just want to know if the two you would sometimes masturbate to relieve yourself. Since you guys don't have girlfriends, how do you deal with your needs?" Leah asked without pausing.

Ernest's ever gentle expression was not immune to it, and his face started blushing.

Adrian was in shambles. "You, you, why are you asking this?"

"I was just curious." Leah looked at them with a smile. She appeared rather calm, but on the inside, her heart was beating nervously.

"How are you a girl?" Adrian cried, "You're so weird." "You didn't answer my question yet." Leah looked at him. "I mustered up the courage to ask you, and now you're too embarrassed to answer me. We are all open-minded, so just tell me. What are you afraid of?"

"I, I!" Adrian felt extremely awkward. He looked at Ernest, not knowing what to say.

Ernest smiled, concealing the embarrassment he felt earlier. He said lightly, "I have self-discipline."

"Does that mean that you don't?" Leah didn't know why, but she felt like Ernest wasn't telling a lie.

Without saying anything else, he took a sip of tea.

"Then, do you ever dream about it?" She was implying the kind of dream where there was a girl present in it.

Ernest narrowed his eyes and refused to answer.

Adrian looked at Ernest and rolled his eyes.

"Adrian, you must have had one before, right?" Leah was not going to let Adrian off the hook. "Right?"