He waited a little longer, but she still didn't come out, so he got up, took off his shirt and trousers, and headed for the bathroom.He did not believe that she would be completely uninterested and devoid of all desires after such a short period of time.Silvia was leisurely drying her underwear in the bathroom. She wasn't in a rush because she believed Ryan was inebriated and had dozed off.Silvia was startled when a knock abruptly came from outside the door. She quickly turned off the hairdryer and asked, “What’s wrong?”Ryan’s somewhat uneasy voice sounded outside the door, “I feel like throwing up.”“What?”Silvia quickly placed the hairdryer down but wasn't sure where to put her underwear. She was already anxious when he urged again, “I can’t hold it in anymore!”She quickly threw her underwear on the towel rack next to her and swiftly opened the door for him out of fear that he would immediately vomit on the floor. As soon as the door was opened, Ryan hurried in and squ
He stayed motionless for a while and remained silent before approaching her. He sat down on the chair next to her, looked at her back, and said lightly, “I know what you're thinking, but I just want you to know that I didn't mean to belittle or humiliate you.”Ryan was able to infer her thoughts. She must be thinking that he was humiliating her by doing this kind of thing to her, not that there was no longer any relationship between them anymore.He explained himself to her, “It’s not a heinous crime for me to do that to the woman I love, right?”Silvia's eyes were closed, but her eyelashes fluttered as he whispered the words “woman I love.”When did she become the woman that he loved?Hadn’t she always been the woman he detested?She had been lying there with her back to him, but Ryan could not hear or see her moving or speaking. He moved nearer and raised his hand to try to shift her body around so that she would be facing him because he knew she wasn't asleep.He had only jus
“Because in my opinion, you were just a young girl who had just graduated at the time. You haven’t experienced any setbacks, nor had you been polished by society. I mistakenly believed that your love for me was nothing more than blind adoration and fixation for me, commonly referred to as ‘three minutes of passion that won't last long.’ It was not the mature love and marriage that I wanted.”Having said that, he paused for a moment and then spoke again in a rather disgruntled voice, “Looking back on it now, my feeling at the time was correct. You just truly loved me for a brief period of time. You insisted on getting a divorce after the initial fervor and naiveté.”Silvia was indignant. When he explained why he initially rejected her, she was quite moved.This was the first time he had analyzed and shared his thoughts on their relationship with her like this. Before this, they had never explored this aspect even though they shared a bed for five years. Silvia acknowledged that wha
He said those things and looked at Silvia with a melancholy look in his eyes. Silvia turned off all the lights in the room just now because she did not want to see him. However, he felt like a complete stranger to him now that she was meeting his deep gaze under the dim lights from the corridor lamp. She felt entirely unaccustomed to Ryan's warm and caring nature because she hadn't encountered him acting this way before. Silvia was perplexed and felt conflicted since she never imagined experiencing tenderness from him in this life. After giving him a long look, she mumbled, "It's getting late, it's time to go to bed."She laid back down after wrapping the quilt around herself. “Unfortunately, we can never turn back time.”"I thoroughly analyzed our past, and I believe that our lack of communication and how well we got along before our marriage contributed to its demise."He said again. Silvia was on the verge of breaking down. He was really nagging her. She felt a little d
Silvia ignored him and continued brushing her teeth. He can do whatever he wanted, it had nothing to do with her!“Aren’t we going to invite the Browns over to join us for dinner at home tonight?”His voice sounded again, “I’ll come home at noon to accompany you to the supermarket to buy some ingredients.”As soon as he mentioned that, Silvia was so shocked that she almost swallowed a mouthful of mouthwash. She promptly spat it out in disgust and told him, "No need!"After all, going to the supermarket used to be his least favorite thing to do. He felt that there were too many people there, and the commotion irritated him. She used to act coquettishly and ask him to go places with her, but he only ever accompanied her to the supermarket once. And that time, he’d come out with a gloomy expression after just a few minutes to go to the car to smoke and wait for her. Therefore, she was shocked because he was offering to accompany her to the supermarket. She did not want him to acco
Silvia answered him nonchalantly. When did she get mad at him? He asked for it, didn’t he?In the end, the person outside the door chose to compromise.“Okay, let’s not talk about this for now. Let’s just go down for breakfast after you finish washing up.”Silvia did not want to talk to Ryan at all ever since he came out of the bathroom last night. She kept a cold face and did not communicate with him at all after she washed up and changed to go down to the restaurant for breakfast.She originally thought that they could maintain this state until they got home, thinking that he would change his clothes and head to the company so they could get their own work done, but they ran into the Browns, whom had also come down to have breakfast. Before Silvia could react, Ryan wrapped his arm around her, lowered his head, and whispered, “They know that we stayed here together last night. What will they think when they see you with this expression on your face now?”Silvia was furious and
Ryan glanced at Silvia, whom was feigning deafness, and said no more.Her eyes were clearly full of envy when she said that sentence just now, which showed that she also longed for the love described in that sentence. However, Ryan thought of another phrase: If you love someone, take them on a trip. If you’re still together after the trip, just get married. He felt that it was necessary for him to take her on a trip. …After breakfast, Ryan and Silvia returned to the villa at Scholaris Street. Silvia locked herself in the room as soon as they got home. The first thing she did was to turn on her computer to see if she received any emails from work. Work was her priority now. Ryan changed his clothes and lingered outside her door for a long time, but she did not come out, so he had no choice but to speak up, “I’m going to the company first…”There was no movement from the person inside, so he glanced at the closed door, then turned around and left.Ryan and Julian discussed t
He did not forget that this was her lunch, and she would have nothing to eat if he ate all the food. He withdrew his hand, got up, and went to the kitchen to serve himself a bowl of congee. The aroma of the congee filled the entire kitchen so he thought that it should already be almost done.He heard the sound of her bedroom door closing when he had just sat down and eaten a spoon of congee. Silvia had to deal with the emails as soon as she came back in the morning. As she was not seated in front of the computer all day, there was a pile of emails so she had been busy on and off throughout the entire morning.She thought that the Browns would be coming over tonight so she went to the florist downstairs at noon to buy two bunches of fresh flowers as decoration to make the house look livelier. She also bought some fresh celery and rice while shopping for the flowers. She prepared a simple lunch for herself and planned to head to the mall to buy groceries after having lunch. Whe
Evelyn was worried about this, but Rowan did not take it seriously as he said, “This small amount of snow is nothing.”Evelyn was extremely worried. The temperature was so low now, so the road must be icy. The snow was too heavy and would block his sight. Evelyn did not want him to be in any danger, so she suggested in a low voice, “It’s better if you don’t go back.”Rowan looked at her in surprise and smiled as he asked, “Where will I stay if I don’t go back? Do you want me to stay in the car all night?”Evelyn shook her head and said, “Y-You can go home with me.”She had just taken the initiative to invite a man to spend the night at her home. It was truly embarrassing for a shy girl like Evelyn to say these words, but she was willing to do so for his safety.“My mother should be asleep now, and she wakes up later in the morning. We can just leave before she wakes up in the morning.”She explained with a red face, “Don’t misunderstand me. I just don’t want you to be in danger o
She held her cell phone and said hurriedly, “I’ll go down right now.”She ended the call and hurriedly put on her down jacket. She was wearing warm and soft polar fleece home clothes. She did not have time to change, so she simply put on a down jacket and went out. She opened the door and walked out stealthily, out of fear that she would wake Helena up, and Helena would find out that she was going down to meet Rowan in the middle of the night. Helena would surely think that this kind of behavior was inappropriate. When passing by the living room, Evelyn glanced in the direction of Helena’s bedroom. The lights had been turned off, so she was probably asleep. Helena’s physical condition was not as good as it was before the surgery. After all, she was getting older and had undergone craniotomy, which was a major surgery, so she could not keep up mentally and physically. She would go to bed very early at night and wake up late in the morning.After Evelyn left the house quietly, sh
Cassie’s expression turned ugly when she heard Helena’s words. She was shocked and humiliated as she asked in disbelief, “Is it Rowan Pierce?”Cassie knew that it was the Pierces and Matons who were maliciously targeting the Sullivans. Julian and Nora had just gotten married, and it was said that Julian loved Nora very much, so it could not be Julian.As the person in charge of the Pierces, Ryan was a married man as well, and the couple usually kept a low profile and rarely displayed their affection. However, Cassie heard that Ryan’s wife had just given birth to a son, and it was widely known that Ryan was a family man now.Rowan was the only single man, so could it be Rowan?Cassie recalled the scene when she saw Rowan shopping with them in the mall that day. At the time, she wondered why Rowan would be willing to go shopping with them, but now, it seemed that he was there for Evelyn’s sake. Cassie was so stunned when she thought of this that she felt like she would choke on a m
In the end, Natalie was pushed to a dead end and had no choice but to hold a press conference in a hurry. During the press conference, she cried and apologized for the plagiarism and the fact that she had looked for someone to draw a design for her, and announced that she would be quitting the design world.However, few people accepted her apology or showed sympathy for her even though she apologized and admitted her mistakes. The general public opinion was still scolding her in various ways, so Barry simply drove Natalie home and asked her to stay at home to avoid the limelight. One night after Natalie’s incident, Evelyn was accompanying Helena on a stroll in the neighborhood when they ran into Cassie.Natalie’s life had been completely gloomy and dark in the past few days, but Evelyn’s life was stable and practical.Rowan insisted on picked her up from work every morning. If Rowan was at the company at noon, the two would have lunch together. Considering that Helena would be at
Natalie never expected that Rowan would play these dirty tricks behind her back. She did not know that Rowan was best at these tricks. She had cried and begged Barry to plead for mercy on her behalf, but when Barry came back, he told her that there was no room for redemption. She was desperate and was filled with hatred and resentment. Over the years, she had tried every means possible to trample all over Evelyn, but in the end, she was the one who suffered the most and could not turn her life around. Natalie clenched her teeth angrily in hatred as she dug her nails into her palms and tried to calm her emotions. So what if her career in design was ruined? She never truly liked this industry anyway. She had only learned it at the beginning in order to crush Evelyn. She could still do other things even if she did not do design, right? There were so many different industries in this world, so she did not have to make a living in jewelry design. Besides, she was a Stewart, so s
She laughed loudly when she was happy, shed tears when she was sad, never hid her true self, and was a frank and sincere person. Why wouldn’t men like such a girl?Rowan laughed. He did not mean to slander Selena; he was simply analyzing Selena’s current situation from his perspective as a man. Selena might indeed be a good girl in Evelyn’s eyes. After all, Evelyn was a woman who only cared about Selena’s personality, but men paid more attention to a woman’s temperament and charm sometimes. Everyone naturally had their own preferences. For example, Rowan preferred someone simple like Evelyn, whereas some men might prefer someone with a stronger personality like Selena. Evelyn had to call Charles after she could not reach Selena. “Charles, is Selena home? I can’t seem to reach her on her cell phone.”Charles frowned when he heard Evelyn’s words. “She’s not back yet. You can’t reach her on her cell phone?”“I can’t. I tried calling her several times, but her cell phone is switch
He was wrong. He was really wrong. He treated the person he wanted to protect so coldly and harshly. It seemed that he had not been in a relationship for too long that he had forgotten how to love. Fortunately, it only took him this once to understand the crux of his problem. Therefore, he stroked her cheek gently and reassured her in a deep voice, “It won’t happen again.”Evelyn chose to smile slightly in relief in response to his apology and assurance.When two people are together, they need to understand and accommodate each other in terms of personality, temperament, and living habits. Since they had only officially been together for a day, this was even more essential for them. As he said, he was an ordinary man, and she was an ordinary woman. Their relationship was that of an ordinary couple, so it was normal for them to quarrel, have disagreements, and lose their temper. Evelyn felt that there was nothing that could not be solved as long as it did not involve principles
“Getting dinner!” Rowan announced angrily, then he placed her in the passenger seat, got into the car, and drove away. Evelyn had no other objections since they were going to eat. Anyway, she had already called Helena earlier to tell her that she would not be going back for dinner tonight as she would be having dinner with Selena. Not long after the two had gotten into the car and driven out, Selena called and asked Evelyn worriedly, “Evelyn, how did it go? Did you manage to coax him yet?”As Rowan was sitting next to her, Evelyn could not answer whether she had managed to coax him. Therefore, she hesitated without saying anything.When Selena heard this, she knew that they must not have reconciled yet, so she gave her advice on the other end of the line. “It’s fine. There’s no man that can’t be coaxed. Just one kiss will do. If he still can’t be coaxed, give him two kisses. If that doesn’t work, just kiss him all over until he’s no longer angry!”Selena’s voice was loud enough,
Selena’s tone was full of annoyance as she said, “I initially thought of giving Evelyn a surprise, but it turned out to be a shock!”Selena had good intentions as well; she just wanted to introduce the most handsome, stylish, and reliable man that she knew to Evelyn, but it turned out to be self-defeating. As for Shane, who was to be introduced to Evelyn, he simply stood there leisurely the whole time, looking at the three of them as if he was watching a good show. He watched as they got jealous, explained themselves, and felt depressed. Even though both Evelyn and Selena had explained the whole story entirely, Rowan still felt angry and annoyed.After glaring angrily at Evelyn, he simply turned around and walked away.Evelyn and Selena could only exchange glances as they were at a loss for what to do.In the end, Evelyn said to Selena helplessly, “I’ll go and see how he’s doing. You two can enjoy dinner together. I’m sorry.”Evelyn chose to pay attention to Rowan this time an