Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 451:

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The hidden tools he’d stashed away suddenly made sense to her, as if they had been waiting for this very moment — to make this aloof and detached man surrender, to bend the unyielding.

Allison pushed the wild thoughts aside, a wry smile playing on her lips.

“You sure have a talent for jokes, don’t you?”

With a soft chuckle, she eased the tension in the air, just as a young worker hurried over, breaking the moment with perfect timing.

“Ms. Clarke,” he said, slightly out of breath, “Mr. Astley would like to see you both in his office. He mentioned there’s something important he wants to discuss.”

timing couldn’t

to respond

her composure as she gestured for

grew, though he paid little

are my personal collection pieces. Feel free to take anything you like!” he

lantern earrings, a long, auspicious hairpin… And that vase

carved jade pendant from a brocade

a fondness for jade. This one is over four hundred years old, an ancient and rare piece I acquired overseas

with anything, not just out of gratitude, but

in years, and I worry this craft will die out. If you’d stay here as a lecturer, I promise you could become the dean of the entire academy. I mean it.”

over the shimmering pieces, considering

I’m honored, but I can’t