Karin asks indifferently, "Don't you plan to explain who you are?"
The man walking ahead of her pauses and turns around, "Ten years ago, I ran away from home because of some conflicts with my father. Then I went to Zurich. Fearing that my father would find me, I have been using the name of William."
In Karin’s opinion, when it comes to others’ family matters, she neither needs nor has the right to ask for too much information about them. Whatever the man in front of her is William or Caleb Shelton, it has nothing to do with her. So as for whether what he said is true or not, she won’t bother to get to the bottom of it.
"Got it."
Karin's indifferent attitude surprises William. So he says, "Aren't you planning to ask me why I left Zurich?"
"You surely had a reason to do so. And it has nothing to do with me."
"If I said I left Zurich because of you, would you believe me?"
She snorts coldly, "I have long stopped believing you. You have implicated me to such an extent. How dare you ask whether I believe you?"
William smiles dejectedly, says goodbye to her, and leaves gloomily.
The room is quiet as it used to be. Karin goes to the window, gazing at the bright moon outside the window. It is said that despite the many stars, there exists only a unique moon in the world. At this moment, Karin wonders whether someone else is watching the moon as well.
Originally, she was eager to get an answer. However, after meeting William in the end, she suddenly doesn’t want to know the answer, thinking that since the situation has come to this point, it doesn’t make any difference at all as to whether she knows the answer or not. Even if William says the child wasn’t his biological child, never can she and Troy go back to their previous days. The way Karin sees it, after one suffers some psychological traumas in a relationship, one won’t recover right away after the misunderstanding is resolved. As she was in a relationship with Troy, she felt so worn out that she got tired of their relationship and that she didn’t have any courage to make fences with him anymore...
A long, long time ago, people like Karin cry and suffer as they are in a relationship. A long, long time later, because of the ones they love, they learn to brace themselves to go forward. So in the end, they figure it out that they can only tend to find someone they love after many hardships and sufferings. In that case, even if they are no longer together with the ones they love, they won’t regret that they once fought hard and laboriously for the ones they love.
Karin goes back to work and works hard every day as she is neither too close to others nor too distant from others. As her belly bulges day by day, some gossip about her pops up as well.
She has long moved out of the Star River Community and no longer enjoys the dining treatment. Despite this, she can’t stop others from judging her haphazardly.
When it comes to her unmarried pregnancy, others make up a lot of stories about it. Upon hearing the rumors, Karin is sad as well. However, in the company, she never shows her emotions. Because she understands that when it comes to some things, the more she explains, the more complicated the situation will be. She remembers the second story an old monk told her during her trip to India, thinking that as long as she has peace of mind, as for how others think, it won’t affect her.
On a night over the weekend, she lies in bed early and reads a book. Hearing the text-notification sound from her cell phone, she casually takes a look at the sender ID, only to find that it is an unfamiliar number, which reads, "Go your way regardless of how others judge you. You probably will have a harder time in the future. Even so, I believe that you will be the strongest mother in the world."
She is stunned. It isn’t until a long time later that she edits a text, which reads, “Who are you?” But after deliberation, she deletes the text and puts her cell phone back to the table.
Karin thinks to herself, “As for who the text sender is, I know it in my heart. So why do I have to make an unnecessary move?”
Over the past six months, she deliberately avoids meeting William. But he has been secretly keeping an eye on her, which she is clear about all the time. Even so, she isn’t moved at all.
Glancing at the cell phone on the table, Karin sees that there is a call from the strange number just now. So she hesitates and answers it, "Hello?"
"Can you come out for a moment? I'm outside your house."
"I'm already in bed."
She hangs up the phone indifferently and isn’t in the mood for reading anymore. So she turns off her cell phone, turns off the lights, and falls asleep.
During the night, feeling a little thirsty, she gets out of bed to get water for drinking. Holding a glass of plain water, she habitually stands by the window and is surprised to see that William's car is parked not far away and that he is leaning against the car door.
Karin thinks, “Hasn’t he left yet?”
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