She Becomes Glamorous After The Engagement Annulment

Chapter 1048: To Help or Not to Help?

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Peter turned serious.

He had always been similar in personality to Justin—after all, the latter had raised him single-handedly. Peter said seriously, “The lab is forcibly keeping its employees here.”

His words made Nora raise her brows. “Forcibly?”

“Yes.”

Peter explained, “They refuse to let the employees leave. Now that you guys are here, I reckon they’ll also start monitoring you. They will never let me return to the States—after all, I’m one of the talents they specially picked. They gave me a lot of benefits and even promised me real estate. The salary is also high…”

But was he someone short of money?

Peter had never revealed his true identity to outsiders, that was all.

Nora said, “You didn’t make us come all the way here just because of that, did you?” Not only was Peter a skilled martial artist himself, but he also had a few other guards by his side. He could easily escape anytime, so he didn’t need to have them personally make a trip here if it was just about that.

A disapproving Justin also remarked, “You can’t even get away by yourself when the surveillance is this lax? How useless!”

Peter: “…”

lips spasmed and

of others. In particular, he was especially unaccustomed to being chastised by

his nose—the boy had also picked up Justin’s little habits—and answered, “I’m not talking

colleagues are

also facing the same situation. All of them are Harvard and MIT graduates. After they left the country to pursue further studies, they didn’t return to America even once. Because of this, they were even flamed by netizens on the Internet,

to go back

many others like

cases in Peter’s school alone. Moreover, most of them had even gotten married and started a family there,

was only so

escaping by himself—in fact, he could even take two or

23 of his colleagues wanted to leave this place with him. It wouldn’t be right, no matter who he abandoned or

Mom was the

was perfectly normal that he wouldn’t be able to

Nora: “…”

Justin also fell silent.

Mia

those people are so pitiful. Like Pete, all of them obviously want to go home, but not only are they unable to, their own countrymen misunderstood them and even