Refusing To Be His Perfect Replica, I Choose The Arranged Marriag by BlueMoone

Chapter 16

The cold breeze from the river blew directly at her, penetrating to her bones like a knife’s edge, but Aveline managed to get up and continue her pursuit.

However, she had underestimated the current state of her body. She hadn’t run more than a few meters before she fell to the ground hard. The car door opened again, and a pair of shiny handmade leather shoes came to a halt in front of her.

She followed the crisp pant leg of the man as it slowly moved up, and her gaze met Alexander’s icy eyes.

“Alexander…” Aveline weakly began.

A pair of knuckle–defined hands came down above her, and for a moment, Aveline seemed to see the white–clad youth who had once fascinated her in her youth. She instinctively reached her hand toward

him.

The moment their hands touched, Alexander withdrew his hand abruptly, giving her a glimpse of hope and then mercilessly taking it away, causing her body to fall hard again.

She hadn’t been injured before, but this time, her palms landed right on broken glass shards, and the glaring bloodstains dripped down from her palm.

His black pupils hesitated, but he didn’t make a move.

Aveline felt a bit dazed for a moment. She thought of how, in the past, he had taken her to the hospital in the middle of the night just for a small cut on her finger.

The duty doctor had even jokingly said, “This gentleman arrived early; if he had come any later, the

wound would have healed.”

The man in her memory and the one before her now seemed to overlap. His eyes, though ruthless as ever, were no different from the past, except now, they were filled with frost.

Alexander’s voice was cold and indifferent. “Aveline, others might not understand me, but now I don’t know you either. Someone who can somersault a thousand times at the gym can’t walk a few steps?”

His gaze at her was filled with contempt, cutting through her like a knife.

Aveline bit her pale lips and tried to explain, “No, I didn’t lie to you. I’m just ill, and 1-”

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her finish, the tall man bent down, picked up her chin, and his rough fingers brushed over her dry lips. “Indeed, it seems that like father, like daughter. Willing to put on such a pitiful act for a

cut deeper than the chilling wind, stabbing into her heart.

his hand away. “My father is an upright and honorable man, and I’m sure he’d never do

didn’t want to argue with her on this topic, and he took out a check from his wallet.

you want this?”

she didn’t have

he wasn’t being that generous,

“Under one condition.”

ear, “You just have to say that Anthony is a wretched scoundrel who’s not worth more than a pig or dog, and this money

but was swiftly caught by his wrist. In the struggle, her injured hand hit his shirt,

spoke sternly, “Don’t want to say it? Then let him die

like this?” Aveline questioned through her tears.

her for a lifetime and keep her from crying seemed like a dream

of the streetlamp that fell on his face lacked warmth; it was all just filled with disdain.

of Aveline and tore up the check.

stop him, but he pushed her away. He looked down with indifference, as if he were a god above

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turning into a flurry of

her.

up the shattered pieces, and her

by one.

in a panic, and feeling helpless after losing everything.

As he was about to get into his

woman on the

that Madam has fainted. Should we take her to

glanced at Lucas. “You seem to care about her a lot?”

to care deeply about Madam. However, since he returned from identifying a corpse, Mr. Sterling

Lucas didn’t dare to ask more. He drove the car away as Alexander disappeared into the distance.

looked at the woman who never got up through the rearview mirror,

for many days, she seemed to have become better at

grown up in a pampered environment, Anthony had made her practice

bull, with a black belt in taekwondo and a seventh–degree

his eyes, Aveline was just