However, Marilyn pulled him back to the harsh reality, making him realize just how inferior and insignificant he was in front of the flawless Angeline."Let's go." He took Marilyn’s hand and left quickly.After Jay left, Josephine walked out of the dark. Her sympathetic gaze followed Jay as she smacked her lips and sighed. "How did a proud man like him end up with a low and vulgar woman like that?"Angeline's eyes were misted with tears. "That’s his fate after all."Josephine took the supreme membership card from the shopkeeper and admonished her, "Do you know who she is?"The shopkeeper looked dumbfounded. "Grand Asia’s president."The shopkeeper glanced timidly at Angeline, then apologized to her in a hurry. "I'm sorry, I’m really sorry. I..."Josephine turned her gaze to Jay, then asked again, "Do you know who that is?"The shopkeeper looked stupefied.Josephine answered, "The former president of Grand Asia."The shopkeeper was so astounded that her jaw dropped. Could ther
Jay’s falcon-like pupils contracted abruptly. He quickly handed Tiger over to Marilyn.Marilyn, however, grabbed his hand tightly as a flash of panic went off in her eyes. "Darling!"Jay said, "She helped us. I should return the favor."Despite that, Marilyn did not let go. Tears flickered in her eyes as she asked, "Have you fallen in love with her?"Jay, "...""The way you look at her just now… it’s different!"Jay was slightly startled. He was surprised to know that he, someone who had never shown his feelings on his face, had failed to conceal just how much he liked this woman.He had barely caught a fleeting glimpse of her.What was more, she so kindly and intelligently helped him out of the embarrassing situation, taking into account his dignity as a man. He had to admit that he found it impossible to resist such a gentle and beautiful woman like her.Jay looked at Angeline as she stood in the rain. He saw how her green dress was soaked and how she stood there looking lik
The exact same eyebrows.The exact same tenderness.The exact same beautiful eyes and the same radiant smile!The exact same youth and liveliness—so beautiful that it was impossible to be absorbed all at once!She looked just like a sculpture that had frozen in time!He needed to admit that such an exquisite beauty had taken his breath away.For some reason, he felt really happy when he saw this woman’s face. It was as if the scorching sun had melted the winter’s ice and snow.Jay stood there in a daze.As a wise and careful man, he surmised that the reason he was able to draw Angeline's bare face out of thin air was that she existed in his memory.Marilyn entered the room with the Tiger in her arms. When she noticed Jay staring blankly at a portrait, she walked over curiously.When Marilyn saw the portrait, she blurted out in astonishment, "Isn't this the blind woman we met today?"Jay's gaze moved to the pair of eyes on the portrait. Those were a pair of extraordinary and
As if she was reciting from a textbook, Marilyn was always able to answer with great precision. Not a single detail was left out. "Darling, three years ago, you borrowed money from a loan shark and was chased down by them to pay your debt. When you and Tempest tried to escape by car, your debtors drove both of you off a cliff."There was a dull and obscure look on Jay’s face. He could not think of any reason why he would want to borrow from a loan shark.He hated idlers who profited from other’s toils to the core. How could he possibly have anything to do with them?"Why did I borrow from a loan shark?" Jay asked with a frown."Who knows what you did out there? A few years back, you were working out there and would only come home once a year. Every time you returned home, you would dress up decently. I thought you were just an honest man doing an honest business. I didn’t think that you would’ve reached out to those riff-raffs for money.”Jay sighed weakly.When he tried to ask m
Caught between laughter and tears, Zayne said, "Just because Jay was at the mall, both of you drew up this self-injury scheme to capture Prince Charming’s attention?"Zayne glanced at the weak and frail Angeline as she sat on the couch. He became infuriated. "You must be out of your mind, braving such heavy rain just to gain Jay's sympathy?"Like a thunder piercing their ears, his voice made the overbearing Angeline and Josephine guilty at once.Zayne refused to let the matter drop. "It’s just an encounter. If you can’t do it today, you can try again tomorrow. Must you use your health as bait? Angeline Severe, do you think you’re very strong and robust? You’d better pray you don't catch a cold tomorrow or I’m going to sort you out.”As an older brother, Zayne had always put on a casual and carefree demeanor, looking like nothing ever concerned him.Whenever his sister hit him or when Josephine bullied him, he would act like a man of straw as he allowed them to do whatever they wan
Zayne eyed the two women with disgust. "Can you at least give your Jaybie some merits? That’s his wife you’re talking about. Can you stop being biased?”Angeline and Josephine fell silent.Frankly, Jay's wife was not only beautiful and lovable but also gentle and harmless—the type that any man would like.They simply felt threatened and that was why they magnified her shortcomings willfully.Seeing that the two women had finally stopped giving him trouble, Zayne reminded them with a straight face. "Go to bed. I’ll take you to the hospital tomorrow to check your eyes. We’ll also check your ears while we’re at it."Angeline said, "There’s nothing wrong with my ears."Ever since the doctor told Zayne about the causes and tendency of somatic disorder, Zayne had been overly anxious about Angeline’s health.Haunted by the experience of Old Master Severe’s systemic somatic disorder, Zayne was worried that his sister’s illness would spread to other parts of her body."I called you so m
Josephine mulled it over and drew out a photo, signing her stage name on it.She then handed it over to Zayne. "Just one. Take it or forget it."Zayne took it. When he saw the abstract signature on it, he looked disgusted. "Why does it look so scrawly? Is this even your name?"Josephine was puzzled. "If you don’t like it, then give it back to me."Zayne put it in the inside pocket of his blouse and laughed. "Maybe I can use it to ward away evil spirits."Josephine was hopping mad. Zayne stood up and bid farewell to them. "Since you’re here to take care of Angeline, I’m going out with my friends to have a drink then. I’ll come and pick you up tomorrow morning."Having said that, he picked up his coat from the couch, draped it over his shoulders casually, and swaggered off.Josephine watched Zayne leave with wistful eyes.As for Zayne, the unruly look on his face suddenly dimmed with sorrow as soon as he walked out of Garden Of A Diary.He reached out and carefully patted the
In the dark of night, Angeline's obsidian pupils were brimming with astonishment. "What? My brother said that he almost risked his life for you?"Josephine nodded.Angeline sprung up from the bed. "How could you not know if my brother has saved you or not?"Josephine fell silent—a blood-chilling silence.As if a lightbulb had lit up in her head, Angeline fumbled in the dark to grab Josephine's hand, only to find that it was ice cold."Josephine, you once told me that after you were humiliated that year, you went abroad for a few years. The reason why you went abroad was not just to stay away from your trauma, right? You..."Josephine grabbed Angeline's hand so hard that pain shot through Angeline's fingers and went straight into her heart. "I don’t know what really happened either, Angeline. I think that my brother was simply trying to help me cope with my trauma and that was why he sent me abroad. It was only until Zayne said those words that I started thinking closely about it