As soon as Denny and Rena left, Rufus burst out laughing in such a rude manner. "Matthew, you're such a lucky guy. That beauty seems to have fallen for you. She even dared to offend your wife."

Without bothering to humor him with an answer, Matthew looked at the empty food box in front of him, seemingly caught in a daze. Then, after a second, he called out, "Jack!"

"Your Highness, here's the lotus seeds porridge." After entering through the window, Jack put down the bowl of porridge on the table and disappeared just as quickly.

Grabbing his spoon, Matthew proceeded to slowly eat the lotus seeds porridge. When Rufus saw this, he was so upset that his eyes almost fell out of their sockets. "Matthew, since when have you become such a good tempered person?"

"What? Do you want to see me lose my temper that badly?" Matthew asked as he shot Rufus a threatening glare, as if he was going to give him a bad time if he didn't learn how to shut up.

Feeling a bit threatened, Ruf

on ignoring him and continued what she was doing, acting like he wasn't even there.

He couldn't help himself from laughing. Yet, he still continued, "If you don't want to talk to me, I'll be leaving now."

Matthew thought of pretending that he was about to leave, but Harper wasn't fazed at all. Even when he was almost out of the door, she still wouldn't say anything, let alone look at him.

Running out of options, Matthew felt so helpless and had no choice but to take out a letter from his pocket. Heaving a heavy sigh, he said, "Alexander has a letter for you. But it seems that you're not interested. Forget it. I'll just ask someone to have it sent back and tell him that his sister doesn't—"

Hearing this, Harper felt so delighted so she reached out to grab the letter from his hand, but instead of getting the letter, she went ahead and threw herself into his arms. With that, Matthew wrapped his arms around her waist and commented, "Well, your embrace feels so warm."