Chapter 523 - I am still picky with my food even when I am hungry.
Pei Ge, I… can give you time.”
He continued to stare at her nape. This was his bottom line.
What the man and the woman, who had her head lowered, did not realize was that there was gentleness and helplessness in his eyes.
He himself did not know why he was so adamant on them living together.
What he had intended to say just then was: I won’t force you to stay with me anymore if you really don’t want to. Just treat my earlier words as though I never said them.
However, just when he moved to speak, he realized that he could not utter those words about letting her live separately from him, which should have been easy to say.
Hence, after that realization, what he said, instead, was being able to give her time.
Something… seems a little amiss with her!
“I believe you said that you don’t want to tell your mother a lie just earlier.” He regarded her with a look of suspicion.
Unflustered, she slowly explained, “I have no choice. Who made you my boss? I still want my paycheck!”
“Then… Why did you resist so much at the start?” He lightly peered at her with a cocked brow.
“That’s because I haven’t thought of that idea at first! Now that I’ve thought of it, I am not that resistant anymore! Don’t tell me…” She grinned and blinked at him. “That you actually don’t want to live with me and are just teasing me?”