Betting Your Life

"That means you'll lose what you've built so hard; you have to redo all the hard work for years," Zoe continued to worry.

"So what? Difficulties didn't kill me before. I'm still alive now. I'll work hard again, and I'll repeat it. I'm more experienced, so it should be easier to build it again. Nothing is difficult."

Wolf stroked Zoe's cheek, pushing the corners of her lips. He wanted Zoe to erase the worry from her face, forcing her to smile.

"The difficult part is finding a woman like you—who can boldly ask me to marry, knowing that I am not suitable to be a husband—this is the global opinion of women who have slept with me."

Zoe, who was almost touched, of course had to laugh at those words. She didn't expect Wolf to discuss such a topic with those women.

"Are you seriously asking them about this absurd thing?" Zoe asked.

"Yes, but not all of them. But it's more or less the same. It means I have to take care of you because the incident where a woman asked me to m