Mr. Conrad Proposes To His Ex-wife Again

Stella was not going to waste her time on arguing with him, so she talked back immediately, “Never mind if you don’t want to tell me.”

Clarence grabbed her shoulders and asked word by word, “Stella, do you like Emmett?”

“…” Stella frowned, “What a weird question.”

“Just answer me.”

Stella answered after a while, “No.”

Clarence tightened his grasp and asked again in a soft and low voice, “Then do you like me?”

“You stopped me here for asking these boring questions?”

“How could they be boring?”

Stella raised her voice, “They are totally boring! And, I have been wondering why did you come to my party with my friends. Don’t you feel embarrassed and uncomfortable?”

“Not at all.”

“But Mr. Conrad, have you found that everyone else was upset by your present?”

Clarence responded in an unemotional voice, “I don’t care others’ opinions. I only care you.”

Hearing his words, Stella couldn’t help laughing, “Mr. Conrad is serious?”

“Yes.”

“If Mr. Conrad really cares what I think, haven’t you figured out that I hate you? Your appearance upset not only my friends, but also me ….”

Clarence interrupted her, “Stella, this is your answer?”

“What ….”

Stella realized what did he mean as soon as she uttered the first word.

He referred to the question that if she liked him.

Stella looked at him calmly, “I thought you knew the answer.”

Clarence asked, “Now that you hate me, why did you help me today?”

the guests joining us for dinner, we shouldn’t destroy the atmosphere because

admit that she was soft at that

her most of the time, but he was nice to her

days living at the Anqiao Street was the most

cook, he cooked fish soup for her

the expense of a ruined

a power blackout, he would take out the coal burning oven to

though the electricity supply was restored

have an abortion, but he still

Although ….

and stopped recalling

said, “Stella, you like me. It’s a fact

like in our world. Let me tell the truth. From the moment when I

and the apple of his throat moved up and down. He

me. I deserve it. I will take the consequences with no complaints whatever they will be.

been divorced for six months. And the baby’s gone as you wished. We are even now. Why

low voice, “You think that what

to live my own life. If it is possible, I hope Mr. Conrad would never show up in my

seconds, “If we had kept the

should know

go slowly,

but

flooded with

so clear, allowing for no possibilities. He had to

bid the last farewell to him, she was in darkness all of a sudden. Clarence kissed her lips with his

Stella, “…?”

she could push him away, Clarence took a step

held her

“I understand what you said. But it doesn’t matter

crack his skull to see

was my fault that you didn’t have a good time in the past three years, but I never evade

“?”

finding ways to compensate you till you

I didn’t mean that

“Yes, you did.”

“….”