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

about to

But in

Hugh deleted

searched for

could

could not be as simple

was still

She felt like a young girl,

because the video she sent Hugh had already shown him how she felt about

was not ***. He would

But she was

both lifetimes, Jane had only lived for

She had never

been single

had taken

when she responded to Hugh’s feelings, Jane still could not control the butterflies in her

Was she in love? Being

mind started to crash and **down, Hugh’s reply finally appeared

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

first time Jane

thinking, she held her

She told herself that she could not possibly fall in love. She

focusing on her career good enough?

rational part of Jane’s mind was shouting like

However, another little voice was secretly egging her

I would fall in love immediately.” The rational voice argued, “***up, you

two little voices

head was about

replied, [Mr. Croft! How

apologize later. At that moment,

deny the truth. It

wanted to lie down

to look at

How frustrating.

However, at that

The carriage stopped.

Life’s voice. He

“Miss Jane Fowler, we’ve arrived at our

Oh, ***.

Jane rubbed her

Jane. Come what march… Wait, that’s not right. Come what may. When disaster strikes, no one can escape it. It’s time

few deep breaths, Jane got out of the

The wind and

against her

her thick down jacket, gloves, hat, and

But Jane was very grateful

cooled her down. Her head was

herdow

was feeling much more

She looked up.

could not

“Isn’t this place… Count

This was no

it was the real deal. It had once been

had failed in business, he

Only then did he bite the bullet and sell

said that a mysterious person had paid 100 million dollars to buy

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

Jane had heard

never thought that the person who bought