Chapter 401

Upon hearing this, Ryan seemed somewhat stunned and disheartened.

After a moment, he looked at me in surprise. "You're no even going to lie?"

"You rarely lied in the past as well," I smiled and answered calmly. I had heard too much before. He had never been one to deign to deceive.

"She ran away from home. I need to go find her."

"She's divorced. I'm afraid she might do something rash."

"She got into a car accident. I can't be at ease if I don't check on her."

Later on, he didn't even need to give a reason-he would just say, "I need to see her."

It was always, his sister. He couldn't ignore her.

It seemed that as long as there was that one layer of relationship, any little bit of my complaints would be seen as petty, and obstructing him would be almost like committing a crime.

It was quite ironic. It seemed to match the saying of "What goes around comes around."

Ryan probably never imagined that such a day would come.

He loosened his grip on his cutlery, which clattered onto the plate with a crisp sound, starkly noticeable in the otherwise serenely musical.

restaurant.

He rarely lost his composure, his voice rough as he asked, "Do you really have to go?"

1 picked up my bag, stood up, and said, "This is you being unreasonable. I never stopped you when you wanted to leave before.

Besides, I'm single now."

had brought this upon

look back at his expression and left the

at the nursing home. With the holiday traffic outside, it was a mess. If I went back to get the car and then

roadside, suddenly kissing

Frank had given, I realized that the neighborhood was the same one where

out of the car

what's the

replied instantly, "Building 6, Unit 1, 5th

Same building, same unit.

for the one-unit-per-floor

and easily found the door, then

pulled. open from the inside, accompanied by a

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wheelchair, his sharp and stern face looking seemingly

our

ignorance, I cooperated and said, "Alana said your leg

cocked brows." don't need

smiled. "Then I'll be

that, I turned to

wrist firmly, using a bit of

I steadied myself. "Didn't

as he said coldly, "It suddenly started hurting again, and now your help is needed.

at all." I smiled and nodded, pointing to a pair

"They're Alana's."

opened the shoe cabinet, retrieving a new pair of slippers from the top

high heels and was changing shoes when Frank said with a smile. "I heard you went to a couples' restaurant with

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