"Carrie, what kind of joke is this?!"

Justin, usually calm and steady, lost his cool. He gripped Carrie's shoulders tightly. "Marriage is not a joke. It's about your lifelong happiness! Do you know what kind of person Jason is? Didn't you see him acting intimately with Zoe last time? Aren't you afraid this is another scheme by Zoe?!"

Carrie let him shake her, her tears streaming down her face.

"Do you really not love Ryan anymore? Look at me and tell me... Do you really not love him anymore?" Justin furrowed his brows, questioning persistently.

"Justin, I've grown up. I'm not the child who locks herself in the room every day, hiding from people, only having dolls and drawing paper as accompaniment."

Carrie's voice was gentle, but her attitude was determined. "I know what I'm doing, and I know what I want..."

Justin's voice trembled. "Marrying Jason is what you want?"

"Since I can't be with Ryan, it doesn't matter who I marry."

"Who said that you couldn't be with him? Ryan loves you deeply. He could give up everything for you! As long as you stay by his side..."

"Justin, I'm tired."

Carrie lowered her eyes wearily and shook her head. "If Ryan lost his family because of me and even abandoned his position as the heir of Hoffman Group, I will feel guilty all my life. Even if I'm with him, I won't be happy.

"If I marry into the Hoffman family, I might not have a peaceful day. I'm scared... I'm more afraid of troubling Ryan and causing Yasmin to get hurt. Breaking up is the best for both of us." Justin loosened his hand gradually, the bitterness burning his throat, rendering him speechless.

That day, after Yasmin returned the hairpin to Ryan, he fell seriously ill, overwhelmed by grief and anxiety. He even vomited blood on the spot.

with severe gastric

it was merely stomach pain, which happened when he was the busiest, so Ryan always endured it

his condition has worsened, so he had to be

this except

of Hoffman Group's CEO, but

room, Logan sat at the head of the table, looking

is not showing up for the

just a nickname. Now that he

off, and the CEO's position might become Liam's again." Listening to the

table, he

really have to

Liam, you're

a pity we couldn't drag that brat down from the CEO's position. The old geezer still prefers him.

and eager. I heard that, it's over between Ryan and Carrie. Ryan was hospitalized, though I don't know exactly what's wrong. The Salvador family has announced that

meet Gregory to propose a marriage alliance, and the two families got along well. Once Carrie's and Jason

but a sudden, loud bang

not just him. Everyone in the

the door open with an

new CEO certainly likes to be fashionably late." Logan's lips pursed. Although the Hoffman Group did not enforce

meeting first. Grandpa, Liam, stay. The others

everyone coldly, his resentful gaze shooting straight at Liam's flushed face, full of

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