“Don't tell me you like men,” Payne stared at him, “I really can't figure out why you don't like me. I'm not ugly, and we're well-matched in social and economic status. Besides that, both of our parents are good friends. We're a match. I don't understand why you always reject me.”
Joan sighed helplessly. There was no reason for liking and disliking a person.
If Joan loved a person, he would not care about her identity, even though she was a civilian.
“It could be.”
Payne widened her eyes and made a backward step instantly, “W-what could it be?”
Joan looked at her appalled expression and replied, “I could be liking a man.”
Payne was speechless.
Joan's words were like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky to Payne.
“The spreading rumour is true? That's why you haven't been looking for a woman?” Payne swallowed hard.
Joan did not want her to wait for him and delayed her marriage. He also wanted to have peace and quietness, so he nodded, “Yes.”
Payne widened her eyes and stared at him for a few seconds without saying anything as if she was shocked by his answer.
She was reluctant to accept this answer.
When Joan said he liked man, her first reaction was to believe him because he had a clean life that she had never seen a woman around him. However, Payne liked him.
“It's okay. Even if you're gay, I'll still want to make you straight,” Payne walked over to grab his arm again, “I like you, no matter what your sexual orientation, I like you.”
Joan was speechless.
“Payne...”
“I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen,” she covered her ears with her hands and continuously shook her head. She knew Joan would say something to reject her again, so she was not going to listen, “I like you, and I've liked you for so many years, and I'm not going to like anyone else anymore.”
Joan was speechless.
He pressed his eyebrow with his fingers, and he could do nothing with her.
“Sir, the breakfast is ready,” Sally walked over to them at this time.
“Alright, go get Nina and Ms. Nelson,” after saying that, he sighed and waited for Sally to walk away before looking at Payne, “Be my guest. All I can promise you is that I don't like you, and I won't like you in the future as well.”
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the house.
Payne was stunned and stood on the same spot.
She did not return to her senses for a long time.
She suffered both physical and mental.
Amanda taught Nina to draw wild geese at the riverside.
Nina had drawn a lot of flora yesterday, and she drew animals today.
Nina said she liked animals that would fly.
Amanda then taught her to draw wild geese.
“This bird is not pretty at all,” Nina complained. She had seen the colourful parrots, so she thought the black, white, and grey wild goose was ugly.
Amanda smiled and pinched her nose, “Nina, do you like the beauty coming from within or the beautiful appearance?”
Nina blinked her eyes.
Amanda explained to her, “The wild goose seems ugly, but it's the most loyal bird. Wild geese never live alone. There's rarely an odd number of wild geese in a flock. If a wild goose dies, its partner will commit suicide or be depressed to death.”
Nina looked at her and then looked at the drawing on the paper and said, “Then I like it.”
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