What was wrong with that guy? He thought that the whole world circled him? He considered how mighty he was that he could do this to me? He always made sure that I remembered my position in this house, but now he even forbade me to be close to my best friend? Who did you think you were, Claude? Ah, no one liked such a forbearing CEO, but in this material world, money is number one, and affection is number two.
Everyone doesn't mind getting married to an older man for his wealth and to live a comfortable life in the future. Money is significant to continue your life, but it never guarantees your happiness. If It can give you bliss, then no one will care about how handsome you are or how cool you are. Ah, this world is corrupted by money, and everyone's eyes are blind in front of wealth and status.
Love is blind, and we can't choose who we fall in love with, but blindness is not the reason for you to keep close your eyes forever. Sometimes, blindness is useful to keep you on track and move on from your bad memories. But who cared about such a bastard, but not eating this cake because Claude brought it to me was not a reason. Yeah, this cake is innocent, so who cared about the one who bought it.
Cole looked at Mio's happy face, and he gritted his teeth. He didn't have a plan to tell Mio his feelings, but it didn't mean he could keep his calm when he saw her getting hurt by the guy she liked.
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Claude closed his heavy eyes, and his last memories kept coming to him like poison that would kill him slowly. Why did he do the thing he would regret in the future. But Claude couldn't erase anything that Claude did in the past. He also understood that no girl wanted to come back to a scumbag who ignored and trampled their feelings. But he didn't want to give up just because of the past times.
Claude walked out and stood beside the stairs and looked down, and his eyes saw Mio ate the cake he bought happily. Claude also knew that throwing food away was not Mio's character. She would never do that thing, so that was why he never coaxed her to keep that cake. Why did our relationship become like this?
If he was gentle in the past, he can do a lovey-dovey thing with Mio right now, and he would feed her the cake. But there is no drug for regret, and he could grit his teeth in anger. Claude turned back to his bedroom and closed the door gently. If he could, he wanted to change his past, but he couldn't do anything at all.
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Milly saw that Claude brought the favorite cake of her young lady, and she felt dissatisfied. What did he want? Did he want to kill my lady by giving poison to the cake?
"Young lady, don't eat the cake, who knows what is inside?" Milly said, alarmed.
"Why did you have a bad thought like that?" I frowned when I heard Milly's words.
"Claude was not a good man, so maybe he wanted to kill you," Milly answered.
"Or you can let me eat it first so that you won't get any harm from unknowing food like this," Milly said enthusiastically.
"Did you watch palace dramas again lately, and What benefit did he get from poisoning me? I am not anyone who can danger him nor someone who can hurt him. It is like I said, I am just an ant that can't hurt a baby tiger, let alone a tiger's father," I calmly answered her.
"We live in a real-life, and it is not in a palace drama where I should put my guard to my husband concubine, and Claude and I are not married, so why would I be scared with his concubine?" I added.
"But, we never knew that he kept a concubine or not," Milly added.
"So you wanted to say that he has a mistress out there? I want to ask you, Milly, Is that my problem if he kept a mistress outside? Did you forget my status in this house? I am just an air that didn't have any weight, so you wanted me to be angry if what you said was true?
No, I don't want to be involved in his life anymore, and we can keep living as separate people from now on," I said without any discomfort in my heart. I tried to let him go, but a part of my heart still kept calling his name shamefully.
I didn't know what to do anymore about him.
"Mio, are you all right?" Mom asked me. I didn't know when they arrived home, but mom already stood up in front of me.
"You bought your favorite cakes?" Mom added.
"It was bought by Claude," I said without any happiness in my tone.
"When did you arrive, mom? Were you dating with Dad outside, it was not fair to date alone without me," I pouted lowly.
"This girl, who told you that we were dating? We went to prepare your marriage gift," Dad answered me with a little chuckle.
"A marriage gift?" I couldn't believe what I heard at all.
"Claude didn't tell you that both of you will move out of this house and leave independently outside as a new married couple?" Dad said with a smile on his face.
"Can't we live with you? We don't have to move out, right?" I said anxiously.
"I knew that you feel nervous living alone with Claude, but I felt the same thing when I got married to your dad for the first day," Mom hugged me to appease my anxiety.
I heard something more shocking than our news of living together, "You will get your certificate and move out tomorrow, are you happy, Mio?" Das asked me cheerfully.
I just smiled lightly without agreeing nor denying it. I turned my head upstairs, and I saw Claude smiled happily at me. This guy was deliberate again, what did he want from me? Was it not enough of him for hurting my feelings?