At his words, Sydney kept silent for a while. "Perhaps I get into a dead end. I heard too many such words in the past. Though I seldom hear them now, they’ve traumatized me, and I can't help agonizing over them."
"Don't think about them anymore." Julien caressed her hair lightly.
Sydney nodded. "I won't. You've analyzed why those people said those words. If I still take their words to heart, I’ll really die in the dead end."
"Don't say anything related to ‘die’." Julien frowned and covered her lips with displeasure.
Sydney pushed his hand away with a laugh. "Why are you so serious? Didn't I just say ‘die’? Look at your serious face. You seem as if I said something so terrible that the world was going to end."
“‘Die’ is an unlucky word," Julien said in an annoyed voice. "It’s unlucky. I hope both of us are safe and sound."
Julien was truly shocked by that cliff fall because he almost lost her that time.
He didn't want her to experience anything life-threatening.
Otherwise, he didn't know what he would do.
"Okay, okay, okay, I won't say anything related to that." Looking at his furrowed eyebrows, Sydney knew that he minded the topic of death a lot.
So, she changed the topic.
Sure enough, Julien unfolded his furrowed eyebrows when Sydney didn’t talk about death again.
"It’s good to turn a deaf ear to others’ words. Only in this way can we live our own lives without pressure and burden, and we won’t be influenced by them. You must know a life affected by others will not make us happy, but only please others." He hugged her tightly again and lowered his head to kiss her hair while stroking her soft hair.
Leaning against his arms, she listened to him carefully though she made no reply.
After speaking for a while, Julien stopped fondling her hair and looked down at her. "When you ignore others’ opinions of you, you won't feel embarrassed to turn to me, will you?
“Well, I know that you are probably still unwilling to ask me for help. After all, you still want to solve problems independently, but Leaf, do you think that you are able to handle problems on your own now?"
Sydney looked up at his handsome face, and what Chaim and Luke said sprang to her mind. "I know... I’m not able now."
She didn't know much about how to win in the business since she was a green hand anyway.
Furthermore, she had neither power nor a wide network of contacts.
She didn't have anything to help her win in the business. How could she address problems independently?
Although she didn't want to admit it, it was the truth.
She was indeed in such a plight now. Despite being the president of a company, her company and identity didn't permit her to be powerful, let alone do business with top enterprises.
As she admitted knowingly that she was indeed incapable of handling problems, Julien raised his eyebrows with noticeable surprise.
Sydney noticed it and pouted her mouth unhappily. "Huh? Are you very surprised that I admit it?"
Julien raised his chin. "Yes. I'm afraid you probably don't know you are actually a very emulous person. And you have high self-esteem. I thought even if I said that, you wouldn't admit it. I didn't expect you..."
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