People came and went to the airport. They caught people's eyes with their outstanding appearance. But Arthur didn't bother to care right now.
He held fast her wrist and looked into her eyes. "Where do you draw the conclusion that I will not stay at Zoshalor? How do you know my parents won't let me stay here?"
Jean frowned and said, "Well, will you?"
"Even though you want to, your parents won't let you."
"You are absolutely wrong," Arthur sighed, "my mom desperately wants me to find a girlfriend. She won't care where I live."
Jean was surprised.
Most parents wanted their children to stay by their side, especially the mother. She didn't expect that his parents wouldn't care.
"Maybe it's because they are both doctors, they think differently. They care more about the wellbeing of the most, rather than focus on their family."
"Though they have retired, they are even busier than me sometimes. They volunteer to provide free medical services all day long. Sometimes they even go to poor villages. I need to check with their schedule to see if I can meet them sometimes."
"So they don't care where I live. Even though I live in Riverside city, I won't see them every day."
Jean was more surprised. But to some extent, she could relate to them.
If she had children, she wouldn't care much about where they were, or interfere with their future. People live different lives and think differently.
Some hoped that their children could be by their side, thus they could enjoy the happiness of being together. While some hoped that they could still contribute to society when they were old. Arthur was lucky to have noble and eminent parents.
She thought that his parents, like most the parents, would ask him to stay in Riverside city, since he was the only child in the family. But today what Arthur said had changed her mind and impressed her in a good way.
Arthur held her tight and complained, "You don't know my mom. She treats me as if I'm not her own son. She kept nagging me, for I don't have a girlfriend. She makes me think that if I am not popular at all."
"She even told me that it was ok to date a guy."
Jean couldn't help laughing.
She could not imagine that his mother was so hilarious and funny, given that he was so rigid.
While she was laughing, Arthur's eyes were fixed on her.
He stared at her. "You have beautiful smiles," he said.
It was no exaggeration to say that it was the first time for him to see her laugh so happily.
She was pretty depressed and didn't talk much when they studied abroad. In most of the cases, they cut to the chase and avoided having an in-depth conversation, let alone pulling each other's legs.
When they met at Riverside city again, they started to be at odds with each other. He never saw her laugh like this.
The smile on her face made her lively. All poems failed to describe how beautiful her smile was.
When could he really put in her shoes?
It turned out that when you really loved someone, you would want her to be happy and make changes.
Because Jean went to Riverside city to visit Emelia, her assistant and the deputy manager arrived several days before her. When they walked out of the arrival hall, Jean saw her assistant and the manager waiting by a car.
They obviously saw Arthur who was following behind. The deputy manager frowned immediately and walked up to Jean. "Is he the man who went to the company to find you? Why is he here? Is he still bothering you?"
As a middle-aged man in his forties, he was Jean's father's good assistant. After Jean took over the company, his father asked him to help her.
When Arthur went to make peace with her, he directly went to Loriene Jewelry. So the manager got to know him then.
Because Jean turned a blind eye to him, and even let the guard kick him off once, he didn't think too much about it. He thought Arthur was only another man who badgered Jean.
But he didn't expect him to follow here. It seemed that they took the same flight. It really made him curious.
He was serious?
If he was not, why did he follow her all the way here?
He scrutinized Arthur and found that he was quite handsome and attractive.
Last time, he only saw Arthur from distance. Having heard that he was kicked out by the security guard, he didn't bother to look at him.
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