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.

recently been phoning and messaging

was a straightforward woman, and thus was candid about her willingness to be reconciled to

that exactly, but he knew that his father was currently not in the mood to reflect on things between

 Khalid was neither resolute enough to repulse the return of his wife

a dilemma, he was struggling in a mess, and thus longed for

this time. I

second thought, he somehow began to admire

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

 Lucas. She said she had no idea who

and he seldom went anywhere

with the girl, nor did she know when they fell in love

She asked Lydia whether she had introduced any girl

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

Heaving a sigh, she said, "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

at Marshall, and thought that Old Mrs. Grant was making

pushed him so hard that Marshall was irritated and decided to marry Katherine. And

failed marriage, there must still be grievance and reluctance

a symbolic

didn't remind him much about her mother,

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

again. Even before Katherine came back home, he was still scratching his head and thinking about how he could express his feelings

in his head uncontrollably turned out to be warning and threatening as he saw the

of his lips, he didn't know whether he had

 and Old Mrs. Grant were still discussing about the identity of Lucas's little girlfriend. As Old Mrs. Grant failed to draw any conclusion, Lydia then turned to Marshall, "What do you think about that, Marshall? You guys always hang out with each other, and meet in

impression, they didn't actually hang out with each other much in their daily life, and talked about nearly no other

did have

that Lucas was just trying to discomfort him

he had to admit that Katherine was indeed the sort of girl whom Lucas would be

recognition and urged him to utter, "Nope, never heard of that. He's a man of few

 nodded, "Indeed, he's always been a reticent boy. Maybe I should try to ask