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?”

that since you were one of the guests joining us for dinner, we shouldn’t destroy the atmosphere because of you. And, I owed

had to admit that she

wretched man had been mean to her most of the time, but

the Anqiao Street was the most

cooked fish soup for her without

expense of a

that she was a trouble, when there was a power blackout, he would take out the coal burning oven to heat water so that she could

electricity supply was restored before he could

her to have an abortion, but he still accompanied her to

Although ….

and

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

calm, “Mr. Conrad, we are both grown-ups. There’s more than like in our world. Let me tell the truth. From the moment when I

moved up and down. He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t open his

I deserve it. I will take the consequences with no complaints

been divorced for six months. And the baby’s gone as you wished. We are even now. Why don’t

Clarence said in a low voice, “You think that

life. If it is

after a few seconds, “If we had kept the baby, would you have

should know that

go slowly, “I

but she felt something else

flooded with

made it so clear, allowing for no possibilities. He had

darkness all of a sudden. Clarence kissed her lips with his cold and thin lips.

Stella, “…?”

him away, Clarence took a step back

her anger, “Clarence

matter to me. It’s enough to

to crack his skull

have a good time in the past three years, but I never evade

“?”

you till you can leave the past behind and

you misunderstood. I didn’t

“Yes, you did.”

“….”