Chapter 627


    ine stole a nce at the living room and kept down her voice, “I gradually find that he’s quite


    annoying, indifferent and sharp-toned. How could you endure him and fall in love with him?”


    Ste raised her brows. She didn’t expect that ine would have such ament on rence.


    She took out a te while asking with a smile, “You like him, don’t you?”


    ine regained her senses and realized what she had said, “Yeah, I once said that I like him.”


    Ste said, “All right. Go out and take a seat. The lunch will be ready soon.”


    Although she had known ine for a long time, she thought ine was an interesting and cute girl.


    Even ine didn’t realize that her feeling towards rence was not love.


    ine didn’t want to marry Darnell and when she felt so hopeless because all her efforts of fighting


    against the marriage became in vain, rence appeared.


    He wasparable to Darnell in family background, social status and appearance.


    And those people in Riverside also didn’t dare to offend him.


    He was like a morous saviour in ine’s eyes.


    Therefore, she kept telling them that she liked her, hoping that he could help her escape from this


    marriage.


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    Apparently, Darnell had perceived this and he took the advantage to send ine to City N.


    In this way, ine could stay in City N and stay by rence’s side, and this triggered emotions like


    fear, hatred and nervousness in the James.


    When having lunch, ine sat next to Ste and focused on the rice in her bowl. Apparently, she was


    very hungry.


    rence asked, “When will you go to the studio?”


    Ste replied, “After the lunch. When will you go to thepany?”


    “Almost the same time. I will give you a ride.”


    ine lifted her head when she heard the conversation. With her cheeks puffed up and down, she


    asked in a low voice, “Where are you going? Can you bring me with you?”


    rence took a nce at her and replied in a t tone, “Nope.”


    ine immediately became anxious, “Didn’t you ask me to seek a job? I’m not familiar with this city and


    the people here. I don’t know what I can do.”


    “Didn’t you see it when we were in the shop? They’re looking for a cashier.”


    ine was lost for words.


    Ste suppressed herughter, “I will take her to my studio. We’re in short of manpower two.”


    ine made a face at rence and then smiled brightly at Ste, “Thank you, Ste. You’re not only


    beautiful but also kind-hearted. You’re totally different from someone who’s so hypocritical.”


    rence was rendered speechless.


    After lunch, Ste stood up, preparing to take the dishes into the kitchen. ine spotted rence’s


    nce and immediately put down her bowl, “Leave it to me. Ste, it’s hard to make a meal, so just let


    me wash the dishes.”


    Fearing that Ste would insist on washing the dishes, ine hurriedly took the dishes into the kitchen.


    Ste recalled what rence had said to her when seeing that ine was so active and decided to


    leave it to her.


    Unexpectedly, just when Ste sat down on the sofa, she heard a string of sounds of dishes breaking


    from the kitchen.


    Ste was rendered speechless.


    She stiffly turned her head and took a nce at rence who sat next to her.


    Noticing her gaze, rence slightly looked up, “Let herpensate for it.”


    Ste said, “I’m pondering about the other matter.”


    rence kept down his voice, “What’s that?”


    “Is kitchen killer a matter of probability, or is it decided by genes? What do you think of it?”


    rence was lost for words.


    Ste thought of it carefully and concluded that it was not decided by genes because at least Dolores


    never broke any dishes.


    But at a second thought, she doubted her conclusion.


    After all, she didn’t know how Dolores was like when she was young.


    s…


    Ste stood up and walked into the kitchen.


    …


    After cleaning the messy kitchen, Ste changed her clothes, preparing to go out.


    She said, “You don’t need to send me there. I and ine will walk to the studio so that she can get


    familiar with the surroundings.”


    rence moved his thin lips trying to say something, but he didn’t say anything in the end. He simply


    replied, “Okay.”


    ine, who stood at the side, had been lowering her head as if she had realized that she had made


    some mistakes.


    Ste picked up her bag and said, “Let’s go.”


    After getting into the lift, ine broke the silence hesitantly, “Hmm… Ste… I’m sorry. I broke your


    bowls today. I will buy you a new set of dishes when I earn some money.”


    Ste replied, “It doesn’t matter. I’ve been ustomed to it.”


    “What?”


    Ste chuckled, “Nothing. You just need to pay more attention in the future.”


    ine clenched her fists to brace herself, “It’s just an ident. I can do it!”


    It would take almost half an hour for them to walk to the studio. The sunlight was so dazzling at noon


    and it was a bit hot.


    Walking next to Ste, ine looked around curiously, feeling everything interesting and novel.


    Ste asked when she noticed this, “Did you grow up in Riverside.”


    ine immediately nodded her head, “There’s a strange rule in my family – they don’t allow us to leave


    Riverside. I’ve been yearning for going out for fun, but my dad didn’t allow me to do so. What’s more,


    he even scolded me. I can’t understand what they’re thinking. The world outside is so wonderful.”


    “Aren’t you afraid that they will get angry since you left Riverside without informing them?”


    “I’m afraid of it, but I’m more afraid of marrying Darnell.”


    Ste subconsciously blurted out the question, “Why?”


    ine knitted her brows, “Although I didn’t have too many chances to meet him, I’d been calling him


    uncle since childhood. But now they require me to marry him and I feel very weird and ufortable.


    Moreover…”


    ine kept down her voice as if they were talking about a mysterious thing, “He’s very horrifying. I


    heard from others that the red wines in his cer were all made of human’s blood. And he usually eats


    human’s flesh. The key is that he likes raw meat! What if I anger him after marriage and he eats me!”


    Ste was rendered speechless.


    Before going to Riverside, she also heard of simr rumours about Darnell.


    She thought it was a lie for kids, but she didn’t expect that some members of the James family had a


    firmer belief in this lie than her.


    No wonder that ine reacted violently in the ancestral hall back then. She was even pped by his


    father regardless of those people’s presence and was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, yet she


    still refused to marry Darnell.


    ine continued, “Anyway, I’ve been afraid of him since childhood. My legs would tremble whenever I


    see him. Forcing me to marry him is like sending a tied-up sheep to his mouth. Moreover, I don’t like


    him, so I don’t want to marry him for those ridiculous reasons like he’s the patriarch of James family


    just as they said.”


    Ste chuckled, “You’re right.”


    ine continued, “Ste, do you like rence?”


    Ste paused and they replied slowly, “Yep, I like him.”


    “Now that this is the case, I won’tpete with you. I will fall in love with the other man.” ine looked


    around while walking and kept murmuring to herself, “It can be any man other than Darnell.”