Chapter 4 Can I ask u out？

After a while, in the dining room, Michel, Melivisa, Clive and Jenkins had breakfast together happily.

Of course, only Michel, Melivisa and Clive were talking and laughing from beginning to end. Jenkins has always been indifferent, and apart from eating, he rarely spoke.

When the servant took the dinner plate and served refreshments, Jenkins suddenly spoke, and the first sentence was amazing.

"Mr. Renan, I like your daughter very much, can I ask her out?" This was the first sentence Jenkins said.

Everyone was stunned when they heard it. Melivisa was startled at first, then understood his meaning and couldn't help blushing.

Michel was the first to recover and smiled: "Do you want to ask out my daughter?"

"Yes, do you think it's okay?" When Jenkins asked these words, the expression on his face was still calm and there was no change.

Michel glanced at him and said, "Next month, Melivisa will be twenty years old. So, the only thing I can do for her is to find a good husband for her. Therefore, I'm not just telling you . At the same time answering all the men who want to ask out my daughter." He then glanced at Clive.

Clive was nervous when he looked at him, and he couldn't help listening more intently:

Michel couldn t help but smiled with satisfaction, and said, "I know my daughter best. She is a gentle and kind-hearted little angel like an angel. She deserves the best man in the world to love her. So, I don t care about any status, as long as If you are confident that you are a good man, and treat my daughter sincerely, you can ask her out."

Jenkins nodded and remained silent; Clive had a thoughtful look:

The two men's eyes met inadvertently, and Clive's blue eyes flashed with determination to challenge. However, Jenkins' black eyes were still deep, making it difficult to see the thoughts in his heart.

Michel smiled secretly on the sidelines, waiting for a wonderful show to be performed.

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After breakfast, Melivisa cut a bunch of hyacinths from the garden and came to Clive's room.

"I'm sending you flowers:" She smiled sweetly at Clive who opened the door.

"Thank you, Mel." Clive hurried to the side to let her enter the room.

Melivisa walked into the room lightly, glanced around the room, smiled and asked, "Where do you want to put the flowers? Clive."

Clive just stared at her pretty figure, pointed at the low cabinet beside the bed and said, "Just over there."

"Okay. You help me hold the flowers, and I'll fill the water."

"I'll do it." Clive picked up the vase on the low cabinet first and walked to the bathroom.

A few minutes later, Melivisa inserted the bouquet into Clive's water-filled vase, and then adjusted the position of the flowers carefully.

"Okay!" She whispered, picked up the vase, carefully placed it on the low cabinet beside the bed, smiled, and said, "Look, I put potted flowers in the room, doesn't it look a lot more alive?"

But Clive just stared at her wholeheartedly and didn't hear exactly what she was saying.

"Clive--" Melivisa turned her head back in confusion without getting his response.

"Mel..." Clive suddenly called her name softly.

"What's the matter?" Melivisa responded with an innocent expression.

"Do you... do you have a boyfriend?"

Melivisa opened her mouth slightly in surprise, then shook her head quickly.

"So, you haven't been in love before?"

A red cloud appeared on Melivisa's apple-like cheeks, and she quickly replied, "No!" However, there was a bit of longing and yearning in her blue eyes.

"So--" Clive mustered the courage to say what was in his heart. "If you don't hate me. Let me ask out you, okay?"

"Ah!" Melivs opened her mouth wide in surprise, suddenly not knowing how to answer.

Clive's expression was filled with urgency and anxiety, waiting for her answer, tender and affection emerged in his green eyes.

Under the gaze of those green eyes, Melivisa suddenly felt a little flustered and more at a loss, avoiding his sight, and red clouds covered his cheeks unknowingly.

"Mel." Clive called anxiously.

"I--I...don't know!" After hurriedly dropping this sentence, Melivisa turned and ran away.

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"Kathleen, what do you think I should do?" Melivisa confided her thoughts to Kathleen.

Three days have passed since the two men announced that they would ask out her.

For the past three days, Melivisa, who has always been full of joy and laughter, suddenly had some worries in her heart. Just because she didn't know how to face the two men who planned to ask out her, she told Kathleen all of her thoughts.

To Melivisa, Kathleen was like her sister. When she was young, Kathleen was her tutor, and when she grew up she became her manager. The relationship between them has long been like relatives. Since childhood, Kathleen has always solved any troubles, so she believes that this time is no exception.

After listening to Melivisa's confession, Kathleen couldn't help but smile. Looking at the slim girl in front of her, Kathleen realized that the little girl she always loved had grown up.

"Kathleen?" Melivisa opened her blue eyes wide, looking at her expectantly.

Kathleen reached out and rubbed her blonde hair, and smiled lovingly, "Mel, how do you feel about the two of them?"

"What feel?" Melivisa didn't understand her meaning.

"I mean, what is your impression of them? Which one do you like?"

Melivisa tilted her head and thought about it, a little embarrassed: "Both of them are very good, and I can't tell which one I prefer."

Kathleen couldn't help laughing. She knew that Melivisa was too young to understand the difference between "love" and "like". She had a headache and didn't know how to guide her in this "love exercise".

She thought for a moment and said, "Mel, you don't hate them both, do you?"

"No, I like them."

"Then, tell me, when you are alone with one of them, when he looks at you intently, how do you feel in your heart?"

"I..." Melivisa whispered in memory, "When Clive looked at me like that that day. I just felt a little flustered in my heart, and my heart was beating very fast..."

Kathleen nodded, then asked, "What about Jenkins?"

"He..." Melivisa replied a little dazedly, "It's strange. When I look at his black eyes, I can't think about anything for a moment..."

"You mean. His gaze will make you frustrated?"

Melivisa nodded, and said, "That kind of feeling is hard to describe... His eyes are like the stars at night. They are very attractive. If you look at it, you will lose consciousness before you know it."

"So do you have a little fear of this feeling?"

"Not at all, on the contrary, I feel very at ease; not only that, for him, I also have a feeling of deja vu: very strange, I have never seen him before!"

Her answer made Kathleen also confused. It seemed that Melivisa had a subtle affection for both of them, and either of them might turn into love in the future. It seems that this "triangular exercise" is currently unclear.

"Kathleen, what should I do?" Melivisa asked the question again.

Kathleen sighed and replied: "Mel, I can only tell you that-let the flow go. You don't have to force yourself to like who you like, you just need to follow your own feelings to get along with them. Over time, it will be revealed. ."

"Then, I don't have to answer them?"

"No. You just have to wait quietly for them to ask out you, that's enough."

"I understand." Melivisa was relieved of the troubles, and she couldn't help but smile.

However, Kathleen's heart was full of emotion and frustration. Watching the original little Melivisa grow up, become a cute and pretty girl, and is about to fall in love. But, what about herself?

Ten years! Where should the emotions deep in her heart go?

The feeling of loss clearly appeared in Kathleen's eyes, and she sighed faintly involuntarily.

"Kathleen..." A worried look appeared on Melivisa's face.

"Mel, don't worry, I'm fine." Kathleen patted her cheek, and Kathleen comforted a little bit distressedly.

Melivisa watched her for a long time with those blue eyes, and said cautiously, "Kathleen, do you...like my dad?"

"Ah!" Kathleen exclaimed, her face flushed suddenly as if she had been seen through.

"Yes, Mel...I love your father dearly." Kathleen confessed to her long-buried feelings.

"Ten years. Ten years. Ten years ago, when I graduated from school and came to your home, the first time I met your father, I was deeply attracted by your father's outstanding demeanor. The longer I got along, the admiration in my heart gradually turned into love. Finally, one day I realized that I had fallen in love with him uncontrollably. However, for ten years, he never noticed me. He didn't even look at me...."

In fact, Kathleen is not a ugly woman, on the contrary, she is quite beautiful. Because her father is American and her mother is Japanese. Therefore, as a mixed-race, she has the same slick black hair as her mother, and purple-gray black eyes inherited from her father. Her facial features are delicate and soft, although not the kind of glamorous beauty, but there is a kind of calm and gentle beauty.

However, Kathleen usually hides this beauty under the old-fashioned dress and fails to show its richness. And because she already has someone she loves, she doesn't want to dress herself up and attract the attention of other men.

"I like you so much, Kathleen." Melivisa said sympathetically and moved, "You have always been like my sister, and I hope you can be my mother. But, my dad...he has always loved my mother who has passed away..."

"I know--" Kathleen's eyes were filled with loss and confusion.