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 you a lot, so I want to seize every opportunity to

Stella had to admit that she was soft at

wretched man had been mean to her most

days living at the Anqiao Street was the most peaceful and comfortable time in her

cooked fish soup for her without

expense of a

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

electricity supply was restored before he could

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

Although ….

sighed and stopped recalling

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

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

lips and the apple of his throat moved up and down. He wanted to say something, but

continued, “I know it was disgusting that I threatened you with the baby to make you divorce me. You should hate me. I deserve it. I will take the consequences with no complaints whatever they

baby’s gone as you wished. We are even

“You think that what I have

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

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

we had.” Stella sighed in silence, “Clarence, you should know that the problem between us is more than the

let her go slowly,

relieved, but she felt something else

was flooded with

clear, allowing for no possibilities.

in darkness all of a sudden. Clarence kissed her lips

Stella, “…?”

away, Clarence took

her anger, “Clarence

what you said. But it doesn’t matter to me. It’s enough

wanted to crack his skull to see

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

“?”

you till you can leave the past behind and forgive

I didn’t mean

“Yes, you did.”

“….”