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."

this upon himself,

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 went to Frank's place, it would take an extra two or three hours. I decided to go directly

with many young couples along the roadside, suddenly kissing as

I realized that the neighborhood was the same one

out of the car and sent him

the

6, Unit 1, 5th

Same building, same unit.

the one-unit-per-floor arrangement, it would probably be right across

easily found

the door was pulled. open from the inside,

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sharp and stern face looking seemingly lazy and casual,

our

said your leg was hurting and asked me to come

me with cocked brows."

nodded and smiled. "Then I'll be going

that, I

hand, however, grabbed my wrist firmly, using a bit of force to

steadied myself. "Didn't you say you didn't need my

he said coldly, "It suddenly started hurting again, and

and nodded, pointing to a pair of house slippers on the

"They're Alana's."

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

Frank said with

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