Serena has always given people the impression of being cold, like a snow lotus growing on the Mountain, and all men want to pick her off.
People's bones have inferiority, the more beautiful the other side, the more lonely and cold, the more they want to pull people together into the red dust, want to see her face stained with red, want to see her bow down.
He thought that was the one thing that attracted Serena to Maxwell, but it just seemed that he was wrong.
What Maxwell likes about Serena is that she's lonely and cold to outsiders, but to him, to be fiery as a wildcat that can't be tamed.
He smiled down, not bothering with the departing Serena.
And what Serena doesn't know is that every second she enters this villa is photographed.
That includes her sitting on Maxwell's lap, that includes her offering to hook her arms around his neck and offer a kiss, and all of this in a photo that has been sent to Matthew's cell phone.