Her face twisted into a frown. “It’s fine. I can sleep in the living room or anywhere else. I don’t want to disturb his rest.”

Jason silently placed the bowl on the nearby table and respectfully bowed to Sean before walking out of the room. He was even kind enough to close the door behind him as he left.

He waited outside the door for a few minutes, listening in on what was going on inside before softly laughing and pulling out his phone.

“Hello, Madam.”

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As he whispered into the phone, he quietly tip-toed down the stairs.

“Good news, Madam. Mr. Sean has just brought home a beautiful girl. They are in his room right now,” he said.

The elderly woman on the other end of the call shrieked. “What? Jason, what did you say? Say it once more!”

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She did her best to suppress her excitement and lowered her voice as she instructed, “Jason, make sure to serve him a bowl of very nourishing soup today. Just in case. Finally, he’s paying attention to a woman. He has been living a celibate ife for 32 years, so he might not be very proficient on this. Make sure nothing goes wrong. Do not let my future daughter-in-law get away.

Understood?”

Jason’s lips seemed permanently carved into a grin as he was still chuckling by the time he arrived at the foot of the stairs. “Very well. I’ll get to it right away. Don’t worry.”

“No! This won’t do. I should take care of this myself!”

Just as she said that, a man’s voice could be heard booming from her end of the call. “To do what? He hasn’t even proposed! If Sean really has a

girlfriend, he would tell us.”

“What do you know? Sean is always so proud and moody. What if he scares th girl off because I’m not there to keep an eye on him?”

Every time she introduced a potential date to Sean, he would always act like they were just children to him and refused to respond to a single comment they made. Watching them interact was enough to make her panic.

away, then that’s

Sean is treating the girl very well. He does not put on any airs. Rest

“Really? He’s

fervently nodding. “Their relationship

shape yet. This is the worst time for her to meet you two.

walked into the kitchen to heat up the nourishing soup she had asked him to stock up on ages ago. It had just been kept in the freezer the entire time since Sean had yet to bring

he decided to heat up one whole serving of soup. As he stirred the soup

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a pack of the herbs used and added it to the pot. Even then, it did not feel like it would

his face after he poured in another pack of

inside Sean’s room.

of soup from the table and beckoned Claire over with a wave. “Come here, Claire.”

the bowl in his hands, she did not dare move

her up, in the past… No way. What if it was just an excuse to lure her in before he pounced on her? It

to sit down on the

True …

he offered to take care of her while

into consideration how properly he acted before, she slowly let down her

tentatively asked, “About tonight …”

the lounge. “I’ll sleep here and you’ll sleep

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to be slept in, Sean was a tall man with long legs. It would be somewhat

abandoned all wariness and

up the bowl of soup and downed it. When she smelled the herbs. present in the soup, she

mouth. She

herbal remedies. Drinking anything with ginger was torture for her.

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