Under the Heiress' Facade
Chapter 53

Within a day, Janiya and Claire were left homeless.

In the study room of Skydew Heights, Hera scrolled through the news reports at Joel’s downfallwith narrowed eyes

She had just collected all the information, and Joel had already fallen from grace before she couldeven send it out.

“You’ve been at the first question for half an hour.”

A slender, well–defined hand tapped on the workbook on the table

Hera looked up, and her gaze met Bernard’s flawless, handsome face.

Helendover,

Herwas speechless

right elbow resting on the table. His hand was supporting his chin, and his eyes were staring at herfixedly

Didn’t he? When did becomeback?

The sky was clear outside the windows, and the two of them stared at each other across the cable.It was as if time had frozen in this moment

It felt like a long time had paised

Bernard’s left hand reached over the table and helder lender wrist.

“Keeping it and I might have to confiscate your phone.”

His palm was large, easily grasping her slender wrist.

Hera’s eyelashes trembled sightly. She immediately avoided his hand and put away her phone.

She picked up the pen on the table and casually circled “n” in the blank space of the first multiplechoice question.

When did you start waiting with your right hand?“

Berard squinted at her right hand holding the pen.

He remembered vividly that she was left–handed by nature.

He even deliberately practiced with his left hand.

Hera looked at her right hand and only then realized that she had been accustomed to sing her righthand recently

“Grandma said my handwriting was too ogrihen used my left hand and asked me to practice withmy right hand,” she said while looking away.

Bemard looked at her, and the corsed his mouth were quivering

Her habit of avoiding eye contact when lying or feeling pulty hadn’t ch

She was still so cute

Hera didn’t know what he was thinking, so she pretended to continue doing the questions

She looked very serious as she answered the multiple–choice questions quickly, showing ascholarly demeanor.–

She finished all the multiple–choice questions on the first pagem less than two minutes.

Bemard walked around behind her and book a look.

She did very well

She avoided all the correct answers!

Berard was speechless.

As Hera was about to tum to the next page, she was interrupted by his magnetic voice, whichcarried a warm breath as it sounded in her ears

His large palm held her hand that was holding the pen.

This posture was too ambiguous. It was as Bernard was embracing Hera from behind,

Hera stiffened all over. Her heart skipped a beat unintentionally, and her nostrils were filled with thefaint scent of tobacco from his body.

“You have to use this formula for the test question Recalculate il ”

Bernard held Hera’s hand and wrote a mathematical formula.

He behaved as if this teaching method was perfectly normal

“Professor Killan, do you always teach people to do homework like this? Hera asked.

Bernard looked at the person in his arms with a smile playing at the comers of his mouth.

Hera was speechless.

She pictured him teaching other girls like this and et explicably uncomfortable.

She was treated

“Nothing I don’t know how to do these questions, so I’m not going to do them.”

Hera withdrew her hand, stood up abruptly, and let

Bernard watched her back and wondered if she was angry again.

What Heradidn’t know was that Brand look out two sets of exam papers from the desk drawer aftershe left the study.

One was her entrance exam papers, and the other was the mysterious academic prodigy’s exampapers handed over by Christopher

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