Tracey and Adam came to see her from time to time. Both of them marveled at the change in her body.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say you were somebody trespassing in my precious daughter's apartment." Adam joked.
"I could just be, there's always that risk, isn't there?" Thirza said slyly.
The only thing that remained unchanged was that her smile was still as brilliant as before, making both Tracey and Adam quite delighted and relieved.
"Thirza, I heard that your studio is doing well. So is this gonna be a long-term thing for you here in Milan?"
"Of course not. I want to go back to Country S." Thirza never forgot why she came here in the first place.
"That's just as well. Either way, your mom and I have always respected your choice."
"Daddy, no matter what I do, will you always support me?" Thirza asked tentatively.
"Of course, haven't I been like this all these years?
Especially your mom, she's always indulgent of you." Adam put his head in Thirza's head and gave it a rubbing.
But he found that his daughter was already as tall as her mother. She was no longer the little tiger who liked to mess around.
"So can I take it as you will be okay with my choice of boyfriend? No matter who it is?"
Tracey was the first to speak. "Not necessarily. For the sake of your happiness, of course, we want to find a person that you can entrust your life with.
"He doesn't have to be from a wealthy or powerful family but he has to be the nicest person to you in the world. You can think of your boyfriend as your version of Avery."
"So all you care about is whether this guy is good to me?" Thirza seemed to have seen a glimmer of victory.
Her parents were different from ordinary rich families. Perhaps it was so because of the injuries they had suffered before.
Compared with the parents of those rich and powerful families who took their children as pawns and used their marriage as a step up the ladder, Adam and Tracey wanted their children to have real love.
Since childhood, they had been respectful of the choice of both Thirza and Serena. With the status of the Xiao family and the Xia family, either their daughters chose a boy of a royal family or a family living in the ghetto didn't really matter.
"Well, that's one thing he'd have to qualify. Why, you got your eyes on somebody?"
"No, I'm just asking. I will have my eyes on somebody sooner or later though, right?"
Adam and Tracey looked at each other. They had this hunch that Thirza was implying something, Why would she be asking such a question if she didn't have a boyfriend now?
"By the way, Mommy, how's Steve recently?" Thirza heard all the news about Steve from someone else's mouth.
Tracey gave her a flick on the head. "I've been waiting years for you to ask. You were the one who would rather die than leave him."
"And now that you are here, you haven't even paid him one single visit. You ungrateful little monster."
Thirza didn't know and couldn't tell her mom what was really going on in her head. She was the one who cared about Steve the most but she couldn't express her real feelings.
"Well, I am asking about him now, aren't I? I heard that you set him up with another woman, how'd it go?"
"How come you, the president of a multinational enterprise, suddenly take an interest in hooking people up?"
"Still as sharp as ever, aren't you? I knew you wouldn't really have changed, not that tongue of yours."
"If I don't worry about these things and force his hands, he's likely to die alone."
"He surely will not, not Steve," Thirza said and compressed her lips.
"How many times have I told you that you need to call him uncle? Why are you still so rude?" Tracey felt a little helpless.
"Now, back to the date we were talking about. How'd it go?"
"What do you expect? He said that he's got someone in his heart and he's gonna be waiting forthat someone."
"Which is quite strange because I know all the women he knows but not one of them would he be into."
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