CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times

What Frances was thinking was obvious enough for him.

Given that he had nothing to talk with Clara, he decided to leave and head back home.

As he pulled away the car, Marshall could see from the rearview mirror that Frances was talking to her phone, stamping his feet and showing an exasperated expression on her face towards him.

Marshall took a sigh of relieve, and relaxed the muscles on his face.

Going back to his house, he saw that his grandma was sitting on the sofa and talking with Lydia.

A little surprised to see Lydia here, Marshall greeted her in a respectful tone.

Lydia laughed, "You're back, Marshall! It's quite late now, what has gotten in your way?"

Marshall answered, "Nothing, I have just spent some time meeting my mom."

Hearing that, Old Mrs. Grant sighed, "Is she doing fine recently?"

Marshall answered with a second of pause, "Maybe. She seems doing fine, actually."

Despite the awkward look on her face when she mentioned Clara, she seemed to be getting used to her new life now.

Marshall turned into the kitchen and asked the servant to cook him a bowl of noodles for dinner.

As those cooking utensils clattered in the kitchen, Marshall sat down and joined the talk with the two ladies.

Old Mrs. Grant asked Marshall whether he was going on a business trip for the next few days. Then, she mentioned that she saw Khalid had already packed his things in preparation for the trip, which made her wonder why, since it was the first time she had ever seen Khalid being so pro-active in preparing for a single business trip.

"It is," she said, "as if he couldn't wait to go."

both Marshall and Lydia laughed, but only Marshall knew Old Mrs. Grant was not exaggerating.

Indeed, Khalid was yearning to set off for the business trip as soon as he could, since he was just desperately in need of some space to run away from everything and clean up his mind.

 Frances had recently been phoning and messaging Khalid non-stop,

straightforward woman, and thus was candid about

 Khalid thought of that exactly, but he knew that his father was

 was neither resolute enough to repulse the return of his wife nor bold enough to

he was struggling in a mess, and thus longed

meet a big customer this time. I guess he just don't want to miss the boat,

thought, he somehow

to take the initiative in a relationship, which was exactly what Frances was sparing no effort to

son Lucas. She said she had no idea who the ideal girl in Lucas's

 Marshall, and he seldom went anywhere else to

acquainted with the girl, nor did she

Mrs. Grant did not have a clue either. She asked Lydia whether she had introduced

date, he always displays reluctance before he sets off, and expresses disappointment after he comes back. If what you said was true, mom, he would have told me the name of the girl already. I suspect that the girl is from a, you know, disadvantaged background. That may explain why he insists to keeping her a secret: he's afraid that

 "You child has grown up, and is able to take care of themselves already. Children can just make their own choices, and we'd better stop sticking our hands in their business anymore.

that Old Mrs.

that Marshall was irritated and decided to marry Katherine. And now,

failed marriage, there must still be

 offered a symbolic nod,

remind him much about her mother, but did get

visit had really driven Katherine crazy, and meanwhile, he was also

her again. Even before Katherine came

be warning and threatening as he saw the angry expression

his lips, he didn't know whether he had done the things right

 then turned to Marshall, "What do you think about that, Marshall? You guys always hang out with each other, and meet in

each other much in their daily

that they did have several times talked about

trying to discomfort him by continuously

 was indeed the sort of girl whom Lucas would

sensibility placed him against such recognition and urged him to utter, "Nope, never heard of that. He's a man of few words, and won't talk with anyone about such

I should try to ask him more about