Chapter 709

When she saw him, she smiled and greeted him with a sweet smile. “Hello, Mr. Julian. It’s been a while.”

Her expression was ordinary, as if he was just an ordinary friend she hadn’t seen in a long time. Julian felt as if they had returned to the beginning, when she was just Ryan’s sister, and he was just Ryan’s friend.

She would smile sweetly and greet him, without feeling happy or sad, every time she saw him.

He was just someone whom she could recognize on the street after having met him a few times. It was as if there had never been a heart-wrenching relationship between them, and they had never loved or hated each other.

Julian felt that the various methods that Rowan had used to torment him over the past year and a half were nothing compared to the pain he felt at this moment when she said ‘It’s been a while’, as if they were complete strangers.

The most painful thing in the world was when she had already given up, but he was getting deeper and deeper into it and was comple