"i... "
"Stop talking, Chuck. I don't want to know." Elise covered her ears.
Unconsciously, tears started welling up in her eyes again.
"What are you hoping for?" Chuck enquired.
"As a daughter, I hope you like her! I plead you to like her, because she has been under a lot of pressure lately as the burden of the family is heavy on her. I've always wanted to find a man for her, to help her, but she has always refused my attempts." Memories of the past began to resurface in Elise's mind.
In fact, she had grown extremely exhausted over the past few years.
For a long time, Elise had been trying to introduce different men to Sophia!
However, Sophia hadn't taken any interest in any of them.
Therefore, after a long period of time, Elise finally gave up.
Chuck smiled faintly.
"But, as a woman, I don't want you to be with her, because I also like you," Elise admitted, tears trickling from her eyes.
Chuck sighed at that. "Why do you like me? Haven't you always looked down on me?"
"Yes, it was like that at the beginning. I hated you very much, but after you saved me in the Amazon forest, I began to like you." Elise confessed the truth.
Once again, Chuck heaved a sigh.
Chuck neither hated nor liked Elise.
Even if there was any feeling, it was also because of Sophia.
Nonetheless, whatever he felt for her was not romantic love.
"I think you have mistaken your feelings of gratitude towards me as romantic feelings."
"No, definitely not. I know it very well. I like you! I really like you!" Elise anxiously corrected him.
Chuck was silent for a while. Finally, he told her, "Please forget about this feeling."
Elise started crying silently and said, "Don't be so cruel to me. Please don't be like this. I've never liked a person, and you're the first one."
"For Sophia's sake, I can also like you," Chuck said.
"No! I don't want that! I hate that kind of love!"
Elise broke down in tears.
She was young and beautiful, and her figure was one to die for.
She had had many admirers since her days in school.
However, she didn't like a single one of them!
She thought that she would marry a handsome man!
However, things did not turn out that way.
Elise didn't expect that she would fall in love with Chuck, whom she had hated the most previously.
Chuck remained silent.
Elise continued crying for a long time until the sun set.
Even when nightfall was nigh, she was still crying!
Her eyes turned red and swollen. However, Chuck did not say a single word to comfort her.
She was twitching.
In the end, she ran out of tears.
Perhaps it was because she was tired of crying, or maybe she had suddenly figured it out.
Her beautiful eyes looked at the moon in the distance as she suddenly fell silent.
"Are you done crying? I'll send you home," Chuck said.
"Well, that's not necessary. I'll go home by myself."
Elise rejected his offer.
She got up and got in her car.
However, Chuck caught up with her. "I'll take you home."
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