Chapter 240: This Time, It's His Turn to Pamper

"Just wait and see, I won't let you take the lead."

Adam Duncan left with those words, determined to win over the goddess not with clever words but with actions. For a woman like Clara Knox, who had been hurt before, she wouldn't easily trust love again.

He thought she needed time, to slowly build a sense of security, and believed that with dedication, one day he could occupy an important place in her heart.

Edward Harper stood under the blazing sun for a long time, feeling an unprecedented sense of crisis that left him at a loss. It was a feeling foreign to someone like him, born within the Ivory Tower.

He had no shortage of admirers around him over the years, with people constantly trying to set him up with women—supermodels, celebrities, and daughters of nobility. But in his heart, apart from the one woman he cared for, all other women were of a third gender.

Watching Adam Duncan's departing figure, he suddenly realized how clueless he was about matters of love.