The Richest Man in Metropolis is My Backer by Dream Searcher

Chapter 109

It was precisely because Soren was such a promising, exceptionally brilliant young man that he had been allowed to become the leader of a weapons manufacturing company

Silence fell over us, filled with unspoken thoughts.

I leaned against the railing, gazing into the night, as memories resurfaced in my mind.

Regret washed over me.

If we hadn’t missed each other back then, at university… would things have been different now?

No. Maybe not. I had been too blinded by love to truly see Edward for who he was. I didn’t even know why I loved him so much.

I discovered his illness when we first started dating. Any other girl with a clear sense of logic would have broken up with him right then.

I wasn’t like that–I was optimistic, determined, and

tell me that we were meant to fight his illness together–a

nobler. It made

was how I started donating blood to him regularly. How I began sacrificing so much for him over the

about?”

him leaning on the railing, mirroring my posture. I

way I would admit to regretting my relationship with Edward in front of him, so I replied, “I was just thinking… There’s no way I would have imagined the person I saved from drowning was a guy. You must’ve been about 11 or 12

little embarrassed. “I was scrawny, wasn’t I? A bit on the delicate side? That didn’t stop me from getting into

troop. He wanted to instill some discipline in me, and he thought maybe I could get some exercise

realizing, studying his

Mom always

a scrawny kid back then. How else was I going to pull you

spurt had limited my later growth, so In

until I saw you at

“Were you about