“Bro, I don’t need to ask too much. I’ll just ask you one question. Do you know how to tie Autumn’s hair?”After Nora was done speaking, she pointed to Autumn’s beautifully braided hair, which Nora had braided for the little girl when she was waiting for dinner. Ryan glanced at the little girl’s hairstyle and frowned. “I can simply comb it and leave it draped over her shoulders, or just tie it into a ponytail. Why do I have to make it so fancy?!” The last time he took care of her all night by himself was the first time Silvia did not come home at night. He’d simply combed Autumn’s hair briefly in the morning, but she did not say anything about it, did she?Nora was gloating as she glanced at Autumn, who was busy eating and was temporarily ignoring this topic because she had a new hairstyle. “Okay, you can tie her hair according to what you think when the time comes, then,” Nora said. It seemed that her brother still hadn’t fully learned of the little girl’s temper. If Autumn
Miya could not help but complain about Wendy. “Wendy, if you were not married to Caleb, I would have wondered if you have a crush on Ethan.”Wendy smiled and joked, “Yes, you’re right, I have a crush on him, but he’s only interested in Silvia. Therefore, I have no choice but to settle for the second best and choose Caleb instead.”Miya replied, “Bullshit! If you really love someone, how can you settle for the second best and choose someone else?”Jane said, “I agree with Miya’s words. You’re not only being irresponsible to yourself by choosing the second best option, but you’re also being disrespectful toward the person you chose.”Silvia replied, “I agree with Miya and Jane.” Silvia had a deep understanding of what Miya and Jane said. This was indeed the case. If it was true love, how could one settle for the second best, then? This was a kind of mentality where one would vow to wait forever if one could not get their beloved, and never settle for the second best and choose
She did not explain any more as she believed that they would see that she had really gotten over it in the future. She sent her new cell phone number in the group chat.“This is my new phone number. I’m no longer using the previous one, so you can just delete it. I should also get home, so you should also do what you should do.”Wendy asked worriedly, “Silvia, you didn’t tell Ryan about your new phone number, did you?” Miya expressed serious contempt for Wendy’s intelligence. “Seems that pregnancy really makes one forgetful and a little silly. If Silvia didn’t want to avoid Ryan, why would she change her phone number?”Wendy was also speechless at her own intelligence, and replied to Silvia with relief, “Well done!”Silvia smiled, then put her cell phone away and went to the bus station to wait for the bus to go home.As soon as she got home, she received an invitation for a video call from Nora. She accepted the video call and her daughters little pink face appeared in front
The little girl shook her head sincerely. “No, I already had a video call with her just now so I don’t miss her now.”Ryan was speechless.He could already guess it without asking. They must have used Nora’s cell phone to have a video call with Silvia just now. No wonder the two of them hid in the room and did not come out for a long time.Ryan was very annoyed, but the little girl was still adding fuel to the flames. “Aunt said that we should video call Mama secretly when you’re not around. Otherwise, Mama will be angry if she finds out.”The little girl did not understand the meaning of Nora’s words so she relayed the words generally, but Ryan was still extremely angry when he heard them. The father and daughter duo needed to take a bath before going to bed at night. This was Ryan’s first time bathing his daughter. When Silvia did not come home at night the last time, the little girl was already asleep when he came home, so he did not give her a bath.Ryan felt that he defin
However, he could not refuse.That’s right, he could not refuse. When he was faced with this little girl who had half of his blood flowing within her, he could not say no at all.He once thought that he had no feelings for this child. In the past, he’d never looked forward to having a child either. In addition, this was not a child that he had with the woman he loved, so he had been deliberately ignoring her the whole time.But as he interacted with and spent more time with her during this period of time, he found that he could not control his love for Autumn at all.He did not know whether it was the blood relationship they shared that was manipulating all this, or whether it was simply because Autumn was very lovable. But he loved her innocence, her ignorance, her cuteness, her beauty, her quirkiness, and her temper when she was being stubborn. He loved it all.In short, he felt that he could not do without Autumn. She had become an indispensable part of his life.Therefore, wh
He was glad that his daughter was free and easy, and was not as stubborn as Silvia was. He later thought about how his daughter was only three years old now. This was probably just her concept when she was three or four years old and she might not be as free and easy anymore when she was twenty-three years old. Ryan could not imagine what it would be like if his daughter were to fall in love with a man one day but the man did not love her in return. His daughter would then pester the man stubbornly and insist on being together with the man. If that happened, Ryan would tear that man into pieces with his own two hands, take his daughter away from that man, then use all his power to prevent his daughter from being together with that man.As Ryan thought about this, he suddenly understood why Silvia’s father had been treating him so coldly all these years.No father would be willing to see his daughter live such a life. What made it hard for Ryan to bear was that if Silvia had b
Breakfast was finally resolved smoothly. It was fortunate that Autumn would be having lunch at school, or he would have a real headache. As for dinner, he had not figured it out yet.After a busy morning, when he thought of dinner, his first thought was to take Autumn to his mother’s place to have dinner there. However, when he thought of how he brought his daughter back with him in a fit of anger, he gave up the idea of going there for dinner. The more he thought about it, the more he had a headache. He finally decided to simply take Autumn out to eat at night. That would save him time and effort—he was already exhausted from preparing just one breakfast, and he thought that he would collapse if he had to prepare dinner. Going out to eat would be the wisest decision.In order to prevent himself from getting tired after arriving at work after getting up at five o’clock in the morning, Ryan drank two cups of coffee in the morning.He made the coffee himself. It was not as bad as
Didn’t she once go to Ryan’s house to learn how to make coffee for Ryan from Silvia? They simply spent a short morning together, but as a female secretary, she could already see Silvia’s virtuousness. The secretary used to feel jealous and enviable of this mysterious Mrs. Pierce, just like all the other women in Detroit. They thought that she must have done a lot of great deeds in her previous life to have been able to marry Ryan.The reason why Mrs. Pierce was mysterious was that she disappeared from everyone’s sight after she got married. Everyone thought that she would show off all day long because she had married into such a wealthy family, but in the end, she surprised everyone by concentrating on taking care of her husband and children at home instead. Mrs. Pierce’s reputation in public was not very good in the beginning. It was rumored that she’d used tricks to climb into Ryan’s bed, then got pregnant successfully, thus forcing Ryan to have no choice but to marry her.Late