Today is the second meeting day between Angela Linton and her arranged marriage partner.
It's been exactly two years since they last met.
Their first meeting two years ago, under the company of both families' elders, finalized the marriage arrangement. But today, it's just the two of them.
The summer in Valeray City is blazing hot. Angela Linton sits in a restaurant, waiting for her arranged marriage partner while sipping on a drink through a straw.
A non-alcoholic cocktail mixed with guava, berries, and milk foam, presenting a perfect gradient pink, with beautifully edible flowers decorating the rim.
Her phone buzzes with messages in her friends' group chat, inviting her to parties, shows, brand events, a private jet trip to Santorini...
She absentmindedly replies, "Handling a task," and then rests her chin on her hand, gazing at the river view distractedly.
Angela Linton is the darling of the Linton Family and a social butterfly, a focal point everyone wants to befriend.
