Corinne smiled harmlessly and asked, "By the way, Miss Anya, could you please tell me how you rescued Mister Jeremy all those years ago? He's old, and his memory isn't very good, so whenever I ask him about it, he says he forgot all the details. Could you tell me what happened?"
Jeremy was speechless. 'Old? I might be older than you, but I'm not old enough to have dementia! How could she call me old in front of other people?'
Anya's expression became a little shifty when Corinne asked that. "Well... It's been too long, and my memory is a little hazy on the details."
Corinne frowned as if annoyed. "How is that possible? Didn't you just say you fell in love with Mister Jeremy at first sight that day? How could you forget the most memorable day of your life? Tell me whatever you remember!"
After what happened earlier, Anya did not want to talk anymore because she learned her lesson not to talk too much.
She pretended as if she had been forced to question and blinked uneasily. "Are you trying to use that to warn me because you're still worried that I'd have inappropriate thoughts about Jeremy? I can promise you that I won't ever—"
Corinne shook her head and interrupted with a smile. "What's there for me to be afraid of? If you had any chance of being with him in the first place, you would've been together with him before I even came into the picture!"
Corinne seemed to be listening carefully to the story, and she had an attentive yet curious look in her eyes. "Oh? How did you find Mister Jeremy at that time? I heard that the entire incident happened in the countryside. Why would you, the daughter of a wealthy family, be staying in the countryside?"
Anya's expression began to waver. "Well... At that time, we were escaping the summer heat in a summer resort that our family built in the countryside! I heard some movement in the grass when I was playing outside alone, and that was where I found Jeremy..."
After hearing that, Corinne tilted her head curiously. "You must've been a child at that time, right? Why were you playing alone away from the villa? I don't think your parents would've allowed you to do something like that."
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