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

as the video

about to reply, II miss

But in

Hugh deleted those

He searched for

Something that could

as simple as

still waiting for Hugh’s

felt like a

It was because the video she sent Hugh had already

was not ***. He

she

Counting her both lifetimes, Jane had only lived for more than 20

She had never

She had been single

had taken the initiative to pursue

when she responded to Hugh’s feelings, Jane still could not control

she thought. Was she in love? Being in love would only hold her back from her true

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

in winter.

Truthfully, the first time Jane saw

Without thinking, she held

that she could not possibly fall

Wasn’t focusing on her career good enough? Men would only slow

part of Jane’s

However, another little voice was

voice said, “Oh, my god. Mr. Croft is so smooth. If a man said these things to me, I would fall in love immediately.” The rational voice argued, “***up, you love-struck ***. I want to focus on my career. Relationships are nothing but ***. Feelings should

two

head was about to

She replied, [Mr. Croft! How elegant!

apologize later. At that

deny the truth. It

to lie down for

not want to look

How frustrating.

However, at

The carriage stopped.

Life’s voice.

we’ve

Oh, ***.

rubbed

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

few deep breaths, Jane got out of the

wind

against her

down jacket, gloves, hat, and scarf could

very grateful for this

It cooled her down. Her head was feeling

herdow

She was feeling

She looked up.

could not help but

Count Lauren of

This was

it was the real deal. It had once been the castle where the count

descendant had failed in business, he could no longer maintain the

Only then did he bite the

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

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

had

never thought that the person who bought