Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Chapter 4561

Old Mr. Lafond didn't press Romina. He gave her time to think.

After a long silence, Romina finally spoke.

"Grandpa, I admit River is a good man-someone any woman could trust her future with- but he's not the right one for me. Our families run businesses in the same industry. We're competitors. If he were just an employee, sure, I'd try to recruit him and make him one of us. Then maybe we'd have a chance. But he's not. He's the boss of Yantail.

Yantail survived and thrived under his leadership. He's emotionally invested. There's no way he'd walk away from that. And since we're rivals-deadlocked competitors—even if we admire each other a little, we could never be husband and wife. If we did get married, we'd never fully trust each other. We'd always be worried about company secrets getting leaked.

It'd get to the point where we wouldn't even sleep in the same room. We'd be terrified that one of us would talk in our sleep and accidentally give something away. Grandpa, don't overthink it. River and I aren't possible."

Mr. Lafond

she said

and stepped away-there was no real chance for

that kind of sacrifice either. Lafond Group wasn't just hers. Even if she got married, she'd

any sacrifice were to be made, it would have to come from

realistically, why

climbed from nothing to CEO, that kind of achievement was huge. Men valued their careers-River especially. There was no way he'd throw

away for romance. It

"You're right, Romina. I got a little carried away thinking maybe you two could make it work. If you could,

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