My Love for You Broke Me

Chapter 168

Funnily enough, Diego remained lost in his own world even at this moment, and he merely considered things by assuming they were what they were in his mind.

I asked, "How old are you?"

"I'm just three years older than your man."

I pursed my lips and asked, "So you've hit your thirties?"

He revealed a slightly awkward expression as he asked, "Is that considered old?"

"Guess how old Emma is," I mentioned.

He considered it for a moment before guessing, "Twenty?"

"Even if Emma's twenty, she's still ten years younger than you! You're robbing the cradle! Besides, I'm sure you wouldn't bear to toy with the feelings of such a young girl, right? If you're after a serious relationship, once you get to the stage of meeting her family members, do you think her parents would approve of this relationship? Surely, they wouldn't want a son-in-law who's so old?!"

Diego reached out and touched his nose awkwardly. "I'm just kind of curious about her and have a good impression of her. Why are you mentioning all that…"

"Besides, Emma looks like she's only fifteen!"

At that point, Diego asked me with a shocked look, "Is she that young?"

I shook my head and explained, "No, it's just a figure of speech. She's underage though. She'll turn eighteen next year."

Just then, Diego lamented, "She's so young."

Subsequently, I didn't bother to respond to him. Suddenly, Diego behaved childishly, and he grabbed the phone from my hand and ran out of the house. I ran after him to find that he was standing in the snow dressed in just a pink shirt as he tapped on my phone with his head lowered.

I heaved a sigh and muttered under my breath, "Here's another infatuated person."

In fact, after paying close attention over time, I realized that something irrevocable must have happened between Christopher and Emma, because otherwise, Christopher wouldn't have continued to pursue Emma relentlessly without regard to his image, despite Emma's claim that it was just a small matter and that she didn't care about it.

I didn't try to probe the matter and figure out the exact situation. I also stopped myself from probing. I merely hoped that every person who entered my life would have a good life and that they would obtain the relationship that they were after.

In less than two minutes, Diego came back into the house and flung my phone at me. He seemed to be in quite a bad mood. I caught the phone in my hand and clicked into Whatsapp. I then saw the message that he had sent Emma, "Would you like to come to Finland for a visit?"

Emma responded, "Sure, I'll contact you then."

Subsequently, Diego replied, "Diego's here in Finland too."

“Yeah, I know that. He called me last night. That man is quite annoying. I told him last night that I was going to bed, but he kept the conversation going endlessly and he behaved as if I were his girlfriend! My brother saw me on the phone on the balcony, and he purposely came over to ask me whether I was dating someone at the moment. Oh my gosh! Even if I was in a relationship, I wouldn't go out with a man his age! I would find a guy around my age!"

As soon as I read Emma's messages, I couldn't help bursting out laughing, and I teased Diego, "She thinks that you're old too."

Emma seemed to be quite mindful of their age gap. She had always kept her distance from Christopher, and she had even addressed him repeatedly as Uncle Christopher.

I was shocked when I heard her address him as Uncle Christopher. After all, he was a soft-spoken man that I had idolized during my teenage years, and suddenly finding out that he was addressed as Uncle by a seventeen-year-old girl was quite shocking. I felt as if I must have been imagining things at that point.

Meanwhile, Diego rolled his eyes and threatened me, "I was originally going to tell you more about Shawn, but I don't think that you're interested in finding out, huh?"

As soon as I heard that, I gave in, "Alright, I'm sorry."

Diego was actually quite upset, and he didn't even want to talk to me about Shawn's past at the moment. He remained on the couch as he sulked there for quite some time.

Finally, noontime arrived, and I went to the kitchen to prepare lunch. He also had some of the lunch I prepared, and then he left the house without a second glance backward.

Did he just come here for some lunch?!

It was nearly nine o'clock at night when Shawn texted me. "Did Diego bring you out to sightsee today?"

Well, Diego did come over… But then he left quite dejectedly.

I replied, "He came over, but Emma hurt his feelings, so he left after that. I stayed at home and watched some TV shows to kill time."

After quite a while, Shawn responded, "Emma?"

Shawn must have wanted to ask how Emma managed to hurt Diego's feelings.