No Way Back

Chapter 205

Hugh stared at the photo Jane sent.

He thought about it for a long time.

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But he still could not figure out its meaning and what Jane was trying to say.

Hugh texted, [Janie, I give up. Does this photo… mean anything?]

Jane answered, [Haha. Who would’ve known that the president of D.Y. Group, the person running the Croft family, would not know something? I thought you knew everything I

Hugh said, [Yeah… Because I’m **.]

Jane paused briefly when she saw Hugh’s message.

She tried to picture Hugh’s dignified and handsome face as he sent that message.

She could not picture it at all.

The contrast was too stark.

Jane somehow felt like she was always bullying Hugh because Hugh liked her. She felt like a brazen little witch.

Jane quickly opened her TikTok

She found a video she had seen when scrolling through the app in her spare time.

She forwarded it to Hugh.

Hugh saw that Jane had sent him a link.

He lowered his eyes and tried to stay calm.

He clicked on it.

In the video, a female was speaking.

Her tone sounded gentle.

you, too’. Because a

She said, “If one day, someone ***you a picture of the sky, you should reply to them with, I miss you,

poem once said, ‘I glimpsed the sky in the morning, and the ***in the evening. Wherever I go, I think of you. Whatever I do, I think of you.”

The author was an ancient Crucsian poet.

Thump, thump.

Hugh’s heart quickened all of a sudden.

He could not control it.

At that moment…

Hugh’s hand that was holding his phone began to shake slightly.

The video Jane sent…

Was she trying to say that….

Hugh did not dare to read too deeply into it.

At first, he wanted to do

the video

to

But in

deleted

searched for

that could

It could not be as simple

Jane was still waiting for Hugh’s

felt like a young

Hugh had already shown him how she felt about

not ***. He would

she

Counting her both lifetimes, Jane had only lived for more

She had never been

had been single all

had taken the initiative to

feelings, Jane still could not control the butterflies in her

Oh, my god, she thought. Was she in love? Being in love would only hold her back from her

crash and **down, Hugh’s reply

spring, and watched the snow in winter. In my waking moments, I miss you. In my dreams,

Truthfully, the first time Jane saw

Without thinking, she held her

possibly fall in love. She

on her career good enough? Men would only slow

part of Jane’s mind was shouting

voice was

things to me, I would fall in love immediately.” The rational voice argued, “***up, you love-struck

The two little voices

Jane’s head was

She replied, [Mr. Croft!

later. At that moment, her

She had to deny the truth. It was

Jane wanted to lie

to look at her

How frustrating.

However, at that

The carriage stopped.

heard Life’s

we’ve arrived at our

Oh, ***.

rubbed her

She thought, “Oh, Jane. Come what march… Wait, that’s not right. Come what may. When

deep breaths,

The wind and

against her

thick down jacket, gloves, hat, and

But Jane was very grateful for

cooled her down. Her head

herdow

feeling much

She looked up.

could not help but

“Isn’t this place… Count Lauren of

This was no ordinary

was the real deal. It had once been

Because Count Lauren’s descendant had failed in business, he could

Only then did he bite

was said that a mysterious person had paid 100 million

the city of Fousm, in Meridonia, 100 million dollars was still an enormous amount of money. But including the various expenses required throughout the year, the total figure was astronomical. Ordinary people would not even dare to

Jane had

never thought that the person who bought