Chapter 67


    Phoebe seemed to think of something, “I remember that your cousin rence doesn’t like her, right?”


    “Yeah, but I don’t know what’s wrong with him recently. He warned me not to go hard with her several


    days ago.”


    Phoebe picked up a ss of wine and said nonchntly, “Maybe it’s because she’s pregnant.”


    Annie widened her eyes, “What? But she…”


    Phoebe said in a gentle voice, “I saw her in the hospital before and it seemed like she was here to have


    a pregnancy inspection. I asked her tentatively for several timester and I guessed that she’s probably


    pregnant. Annie, don’t tell others about this. I know that she has divorced rence, but so far and don’t


    know who the father of the child in her belly is…”


    Phoebe’s words were so euphemistic, but she explicitly expressed the key information. Hatred towards


    Ste immediately appeared in Annie’s eyes.


    That shameless woman had been pestering Horace recently and she showed up in this banquet out of


    the blue today. Annie guessed that Ste was probably nning to threat Horace to marry her with the


    child in her belly. She would not allow this to happen.


    Annie turned around indignantly and went to find Ste.


    Looking at her back, Phoebe slowly finished the wine in the ss.


    On the other side, Ste was still waiting for Sherry’s message. She became more and more flustered


    and uneasy.


    She suddenly heard someone shouting at her, “You,e here, clear this ce.”


    Ste looked over following the sound and found the red spills on the ground. She guessed that maybe


    a child was ying there before and idently knocked over the ss.


    Seeing that Ste was still motionless, the man shouted again, “Are you dumb? Do you know how


    distinguished the guests of today’s banquet are? If one of them falls down because of this, will you be


    held responsible?”


    Horace’s voice suddenly sounded.


    The man, who was so cocky and overbearing just now, immediately changed his attitude when he saw


    Horace. He walked over to greet Horace, “Mr. Jason, I’ve been admiring you. I’m…”


    Horace looked askance at him, but the gentleness that he always wore disappeared. He pulled Ste


    out of the lobby.


    They stopped beside a swimming pool. Horace asked, “Ste, howes that you’re here?”


    Ste replied, “For some matters.”


    She paused and then asked, “Are you going to engage with Annie?”


    Horace was amused, “rence told you about that?”


    He shifted his gaze to the other ce when speaking. After a long while, he finally replied, “For me, if I


    can’t marry the girl I like, I will not care a scrap about which woman I’m going to marry in the future.”


    Ste was lost for words, “Horace…”


    If the one he engaged was the other person, she would send her sincere blessing to them as she


    regarded Horace as her friend. But since Ste was so clear of Annie’s personality, so no matter what,


    she hoped that Horace could consider it carefully.


    Horace said, “Ste, you don’t need to me yourself. I only knew about thisst night. It was not


    Annie who insisted on engaging with me, it was the Jason family that calls for themercial marriage


    with the Conrad Group.”


    Ste suddenly didn’t know what to say. It was true. Did feelings matter in front of amercial


    cooperation worthy of hundreds of millions of RMB?


    Rich families seemed to be glory on the surface, but it was indeed a cruel ce.


    “Ste, I hope you can marry the one you like and I hope that he will also love you.”


    He and Ste were the same. They missed the opportunity to be with each other again and again.


    Horace often thought that if he was not thatposed and reasonable and confessed to Ste before,


    maybe things would be totally different today.


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    After a long while, Ste gave him a light smile, “Maybe this will never happen.”


    Horace was silent. He then asked, “You and rence…”


    “It’s impossible for us to be together. I haven’t gotten even with him. When those problems are solved,


    we will not owe each other anything any longer and we will not contact each other again.”


    “That’s good. The Conrad family is far moreplicated than you’ve imagined. And rence is not


    suitable for you.”


    Horace had to deal with many matters tonight, so he didn’t stay with Ste for too long.


    Ste didn’t want toe back to the lobby because she felt it oppressive. Standing beside the


    swimming pool, she enjoyed the gentle breezes and was lost in her thoughts when looking at the


    glimmering pool. But he didn’t notice that rence was looking at her at the distance with coldness


    written all over his handsome face. He was enshrouded in the dark night and was expressionless.


    How dared to think like this? Could she clear what she owed him by simply giving back his money?


    After a long while, rence coldly shifted his gaze and left.


    At the same time, Ste received a call from Sherry.


    Sherry went to Channing’s school, but the school told her that Channing was not its student. Sherry


    didn’t believe in it and asked many people.


    Channing ranked the first in the province in the national college entrance examination and his grade


    ranked the first in this school. It should be easy for Sherry to get his information. But when she came to


    the ‘list of top students’ of the school, she found that the one ranking first had the same grade as


    Channing’s. And Channing was not on the list.


    A manager of the school rushed over when he heard about this. When he learned that Sherry was here


    to find Channing, his attitude immediately became weird. He told Sherry was not a student of the


    school and called the security guards to drive Sherry out of the school.


    Ste held her phone tightly and closed her eyes. She could roughly guess what was going on.


    But Sherry still couldn’t figure it out. She asked, “Ste, what the hell is going on? I can’t get in touch


    with Channing. What I learned from the school made me doubt whether if I’ve mistaken it.”


    “I will exin it to youter.” Ste pressed her lips together, “Can you please go to the convenience


    store that Chan worked for before. I want to know whether he’s there or not.”


    “Okay, I will go there now.”


    Ste suddenly felt feeble when she hung up the phone.


    She hadn’t expected that Channing would sell his admission letter to the other person. Was he clear


    about what this meant?


    Right at this moment, Ste suddenly heard some footsteps from behind and felt that the air around her


    inexplicably became colder. Her heart missed one beat. When she wanted to turn around to have a


    look, she was knocked down by someone.


    The wind breezed through the swimming pool in front of her.


    Ste then fell down into the pool. She felt the water pouring her ears and her nose.


    She struggled out of the instinct. Yet she was surrounded by water and she couldn’t catch anything.


    She gradually sank into the pool and all her strength was gradually drained out of her body. Out of no


    reason, Ste suddenly wanted to give up everything when sensing the endless darkness.


    Sometimes she felt it really tiring to live in this world.


    …


    When rence walked to the lobby, he heard a maid shouting from behind, “Someone falls into the


    water.”


    He paused. When he turned around, he found that the woman standing beside the swimming pool


    before was nowhere to be found now.


    rence’s ck pupils abruptly shrank and he rushed towards the pool.


    When he arrived there, the surface of the water had be calm.


    He jumped into the water without hesitation.


    Ste vaguely felt someone pulling her into his arms and giving her an artificial respiration.