After listening to Dylan's explanation, Selina was in shock.
She did not know that Dylan had done all of that.
She had dropped out halfway from university, but Dylan had not.
After graduating from a top university, he would have had the opportunity to work at a good company and earn a high salary.
However, Dylan never went to work.
Selina thought that he'd been a lazy lout who had chosen not to work but to remain unemployed.
However, she now understood what Dylan was doing.
She hadn't expected him to be so ambitious.
He wanted to rely on his own ability and build his own career rather than just becoming an excellent employee.
Selina was shocked.
She and Dylan had been together for so many years, but she did not even know about this.
"Where did you get so much money?" It took Selina a long time to recover.
To build his own career, he needed funds in the early stage, but where did Dylan get so much money?
"Selina, I saved a lot of money over the years after graduating and working on software for others," said Dylan.
In fact, he had doing other dangerous things to earn money as well, but he did not tell Selina about this.
Selina had always been spoiled and she had no idea about money. She didn't think much about it at all when she heard Dylan's explanation.
"Selina, do you understand why I am doing this?" Dylan asked.
Selina's breathing became labored.
"Why?"
"For you," Dylan replied with a firm voice. "Selina, I want to give you true happiness. Not just surface level happiness. It requires material possessions, but I don't have the ability to do so right now. I am not someone born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I need to make everything with my own hands, Selina, and this takes time."
Selina's breathing became even more labored.
Dylan looked at Selina and continued, "I want to give you the best, Selina. I don't want you to be laughed at by others. I don't want people to think that you're a rich young woman who married a poor man, so I wanted to delay the wedding. I don't want to let you down. Do you understand, Selina?"
Dylan concealed the most important thing, that he had been threatened by Reid both to propose, and to cancel the wedding.
However, what he said was true as well.
He hadn't wanted Selina to marry him then because he could not afford to give her a lot of luxuries.
He didn't want to let Selina down.
"Selina, do you understand? Do you understand what I mean?" Dylan sounded in pain.
Selina felt confused.
She tried her best to adjust her breathing to calm herself down.
She really hadn't known about these things.
She thought that he cancelled the wedding just to make fun of her. She thought that he did not care about her.
However, she didn't expect that the reason was that he cherished her and did not want to cause her any humiliation.
Selina's eyes were damp.
She suddenly had an impulse to jump into his
arms.
However, she stopped herself. It stopped the instant that Matthew flashed across her mind.
She looked at Dylan with bitterness in her eyes.
If Dylan had told her about this in the past, she would not hesitate for even a moment. She would immediately make up with him.
However, things were different now.
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