Chapter 1448

Adrien held the phone to his ear, the other hand clenching a cigarette. Smoke swirled around him, enveloping his brooding and complex expression. He smirked, a sardonic glint in his eye. “Well, I haven’t been a father, so I can’t answer your question.”

Kisa sighed, resigned. “Never mind. Maybe he never saw me as his daughter. He accused me of scheming against him, but when I asked who that ‘someone‘ was, he couldn’t provide an answer. It was all just his paranoid delusion.”

Adrien flicked ash from his cigarette, a wry smile playing on his lips. “Maybe you’re right.”

“Let’s not talk about him. Honestly, he’s not much of a father to me. You are kind and good to me, and sometimes I wish you were my father instead.”

Adrien’s smoking hand paused mid–air. His thoughts drifted as smoke filled the air, mingling with his memories.

“If only we had a daughter, our son would have a sister.”

daughters too, so you have

returned to the present.

Adrien chuckled softly, the laughter sounding somewhat unreal. “If you don’t mind, you can call

lit up with feigned excitement.

deep and rich yet shrouded in complex emotions that he could not quite put

and make him relax as much as possible.

vision instantly blurred at the word “dad“. That face from his memory surged in his mind, stirring up emotions that he dared not recall but had been deeply

thinking. She paused for a moment before asking, “Uncle Adrien,

not just about testing her knowledge of Christopher.

drifting away, until Carolyn walked in. His face instantly returned to normal, and his experienced gaze became sharp and

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