CHAPTER 587: CHAPTER 611: JUST BECAUSE YOU LIKE IT?

"Nothing!" She pulled her hand out of his and then said, "I don’t want to go to Falling City, nor do I want to meet your family.

"Are you bothered by my family?" Dorian Howards asked, "Back then, I didn’t know what happened between you and my mother, but I hope the past is in the past. What I want is our future. Alice, I will tell my family that I will only marry you in this life, and I won’t consider anyone else. If they embarrass you, it’s as if they’re embarrassing me. My family isn’t that inflexible, and besides, the Howards Family now doesn’t need to sacrifice my marriage for any gain."

He said so much, in hopes of untangling the knot in her heart. If she truly cared about his family, thinking they would object, then he was willing to resolve this knot for her. No matter the reason she accepted that five million back then, he could overlook it and not overthink, just hoping she would be willing to be with him.

But Alice Conley merely lowered her head and continued to focus on eating the noodles in her bowl. Only after she finished the noodles and drank the entire bowl of soup did she lift her head to look at the man before her and say, "You hope it’s in the past, but in fact, nothing is in the past. Dorian Howards, do you think your family will accept me? Just because you like me? When did you become more naive than I am? I just want to live a stable life. I don’t want to aim too high, nor do I want my parents to have to bow and scrape when they meet in-laws in the future, so we’re not suitable."

Their love was never going to have any result. Didn’t she already understand that clearly when she came out of the hospital back then?

Since there is no result, forcing it will only add unnecessary trouble.

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The studio’s New Year goods finally consisted of fruits and two boxes of salted egg yolk pastries, along with a 2000 yuan supermarket card for each person. The benefits were considered quite good, at least better than those of an ordinary small studio.

The colleagues in the studio were all cheerfully praising how nice it was to be backed by the Howards Group.

However, Alice Conley lay listlessly on the table.

"You were the one who organized the New Year goods. Why are you looking so unhappy after handing them out?" Mabel Quinn asked.

"Maybe it’s because the New Year is in a few days, so I’m feeling a bit lazy," Alice found an excuse. Since that day when Dorian Howards wanted her to meet his parents and she refused, he hadn’t appeared in front of her. This also made her parents keep nagging, wondering why they hadn’t seen him lately.

Alice could only vaguely fend them off with the excuse of the busy New Year period. Maybe Dorian doesn’t plan to see her again in the future. After all, she had made herself quite clear that day. As for her parents, Alice planned to find a time after the New Year to tell them about her "breakup" with Dorian to stop them from hoping for an impossible son-in-law.

"Did anything happen that day when you and Dorian went shopping for New Year goods?" Mabel Quinn asked.

"What could happen!" Alice responded immediately, but her quick answer only made Mabel suspicious.

"Did you discuss how to spend the New Year?" she probed.

"How else would we spend it? Of course, by each returning to our own home. I’ll spend mine at home, and he’ll spend his in Falling City," Alice said, though she appeared eager for it, there was an undertone of melancholy in her voice that even she hadn’t noticed.