Adela didn't know why she said that maybe because she suddenly felt that life was unpredictable. No one knew if she would suddenly stop breathing tomorrow. She wants to say these things.

Jonathan was too surprised by her words: "Adela, I..."

"You're so talented, and you probably wouldn't like a pathetic girl like me. All you do is just compensation, right?" Adela suddenly mocked herself, then took another deep breath and continued: "Jonathan, my mom told me. She said she wants you to marry me, but you... disagree!"

This sentence made Adela lose all her strength.

Jonathan's expression could have been more transparent and more apparent. He wants to tell Adela he likes her. But as Adela said, he's a guy who likes to keep his feelings to himself.

He wants Adela to know about something other than the one-person and one-dead war between him and Augustus Alexander the following year.

"That right!"

Jonathan's throat moved slightly, and he only uttered such a sentence in the end.

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