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

about to reply, II

But in the

deleted

for the

could express

could not be as simple as those four

still

like a young girl, waiting

was because the video she sent Hugh had

not ***.

she was

her both lifetimes, Jane had only lived for more

She had never been

had been single

Hugh had taken the initiative to

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

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

to crash and **down, Hugh’s

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

Truthfully, the first time Jane saw

thinking, she

herself that she could not possibly fall in

career good enough? Men

of Jane’s mind was shouting like

another little voice was secretly

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 be flushed

two little

Jane’s head was about

[Mr. Croft! How elegant!

later. At that moment, her head

She had to deny

wanted to lie down for a

to look at her

How frustrating.

at that

The carriage stopped.

She heard Life’s voice. He

Jane Fowler, we’ve arrived at

Oh, ***.

Jane rubbed her

thought, “Oh, Jane. Come what march… Wait, that’s not right. Come what may. When disaster strikes, no one can

breaths, Jane got out of

The wind

against her

her thick down jacket, gloves, hat, and scarf could not block the

very grateful for this

It cooled her down. Her head

herdow

feeling much more alert

She looked up.

could not

“Isn’t this place… Count Lauren of

This was no

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

Count Lauren’s descendant had failed in business, he could no

did he bite the bullet and sell

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

But including the various expenses required throughout the year, the total figure

had heard about

person who