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Alvin lazily lifted his eyelids and spoke in a hoarse, magnetic voice, “Do you like me?”
Caught off guard, tra stood up immediately. “No, no…”
Alvin smirked. “If you don’t like me, why do you always blush whenever you see me, little sister?”
tra was shocked to realize that he knew every time she sneaked glances at him. Just as she didn’t know how to react, he smiled and grabbed her head, pressing a gentle kiss to her lips.
She was lost in the tenderness of his kiss, unable to pull away.
After a night of passion, Ira’s previously peaceful life was turned upside down.
Alvin, once a carefree playboy, seemed to have finally settled down and focused on pursuing a relationship with her.
she repeatedly rejected her parents‘ and brother’s requests for her to come back home and go through the arranged marriage, insisting on staying in Califomia, staying by his side.
Every time, her brother would angrily ask, “Who’s in California that makes you stay there for six years and never come home?”
tra almost blurted out that she was with her brother’s best friend. But Alvin always stopped her, and she never understood why, until a few days ago.
Alvin had been drunk at a party, and when she went to pick him up, one of his friends, also drunk, pointed at her and lamented:
“My God, how could such a beautiful girl end up being ruined by that damn lad?”
“Little sister, for God’s sake, let me give you some advice, Don’t fall for Alvin. He’s heartless. You, and all his exes, are just substitutes for Maria.”
That was the first time Tra heard the name Maria, and she couldn’t forget it after that.
After asking around, she eventually leamed the truth.
Alvin and Maria had been each other’s first love. The year he loved her the most, Maria suddenly broke up with him and left for abroad.
He was unable to move on from the past, and so he indulged in a playboy lifestyle, constantly changing girlfriends.
Each of those girlfriends, in one way or another, bore a respinblance to Maria.
tra was no exception
After
graduation, he refused to take over the family business and Insisted on becoming a race car driver, because of something Maria had said when they were younger: “I think race car drivers are so handsome. My future husband has to be a race car driver.”
Six years of youth and sincerity, it turned
were all just an illusion
At that moment, Teamade her decision to return home for the arranged marriage.
the no longer wanted Alvin, and she would never love him again.
ALSAM The day, Ira’s biological clock woke her up on time.
As son as she opened her eyes, she saw Alvin, who was in front of the mirror adjusting his shirt.
