She Becomes Glamorous After The Engagement Annulment

Bam!

Tanya closed the door right after saying that.

Joel: “…”

Joel could faintly hear Pete ask, “Was it not Mommy at the door, God-mom? Who was it, then?”

“Oh, just an annoying fly,” replied Tanya.

Joel: “…”

Half an hour later.

The perturbed and distracted Tanya glanced at the window.

The moment she did, she found herself stunned.

Joel was standing at the door, his tall and straight figure casting a long, drawn-out shadow on the ground.

The dazed Tanya felt as if she had gone back a few years in time. Back then, she would always see a figure like that standing outside every time she walked out of the classroom after class.

At that time, the sight of the man had made her excited and happy.

But the figure instead seemed somewhat solitary and lonely now, making her sad.

Tanya withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and looked at the floor. Complicated emotions churned in the depths of her heart.

Sometime later, when Tanya looked up once more, she found that the figure at the door was gone. An empty feeling welled up in her.

She couldn’t tell what kind of feeling it was. She forced a smile, looked at Pete, and said, “Your mommy should be home soon.”

Pete nodded. However, he then said, “Uncle Joel looks unwell to me, though.”

Unwell?

Tanya followed his gaze and looked over to see that Joel had changed positions at some point. He was now standing in a corner visible from the living room window.

His head was down, and he had one hand pressed against his abdomen and the other against the wall for support.

She couldn’t tell whether it was the lighting or because he really was unwell, but he looked as pale as a sheet. His lips were so pale that they were practically transparent, and there was cold sweat on his forehead.

“Uncle Joel must be in pain, right? Why not let him in, God-mom?”

Pete’s words interrupted Tanya’s thoughts.

She said coldly, “It has nothing to do with me even if he’s dead.”

despite saying that,

couldn’t help but

was the same old

weak and frail back when they were still in school. Every time he made her angry, he would always stand outside their

but always stood there so

so naive at that

the sun was bright and glaring, she would worry that he would be sunburnt. When it rained, she would worry that

had her wrapped

as iron now, though, so how would she

him to leave the house without bodyguards or his personal assistant. After all, as the head of the Smiths, his status was

formed when she saw Joel’s legs give

him. Then, she

he probably wasn’t putting up an act. His voice was also very soft, and he sounded a little aggrieved as he said, “I knew you wouldn’t

“…”

a moment, tears almost

them back and looked around.

wanted to say something, but in the end, he merely said, “I don’t want to go to

Tanya was dumbfounded.

said that he didn’t want to go to the hospital. He had always refused to

it out whenever he was sick, so he never went for checkups even

up to now, though? Was he

was so mad that she stretched out her foot, intending to give him a

to rush forward

assistant said, “The gesture that Mr. Joel made before he fainted was telling us not to go

we can’t

“She won’t.”

“What?”

foot had stopped less than an inch

looked around hesitantly. She frowned and wondered out loud, “Did he really not bring his

sick elsewhere instead? What

nevertheless bent

distance watched as their master was dragged into the house while the

girl also kept on

—

until the next

making up for all her lost sleep, she got out of bed all refreshed and stretched.

They seemed very urgent.

probably knew that she needed to make up for lost sleep, so she hadn’t called and disturbed her rest, no matter how anxious

still at the point when she got home the day before. At that time, when she saw

had fallen into a

wasn’t Pete by her

again. Tanya