Teresa looked at her son, confused, wondering why Arvin stopped, and who in hell spiked him.
Arvin's words reminded Finn that, yes, what really mattered was the daughter.
"What's your plan?" Finn sat back into the sofa and asked.
"It's my fault! I will compensate Nita for my wrongs."
Even James could not tolerate his heartlessness, let alone Nita! "Shut up! It's about Nita's reputation. How dare you talk like that!"
"What should I do, sir?" Arvin said indifferently, looking into James's eyes. "I will do anything as it pleases you."
"What should you do? Shouldn't you bear the burden for my daughter's sake?" James hinted at their intention.
"But sir," Arvin reminded them, "the whole J City know I have a fiancee from the Yin family, who were your friends. If I marry Nita, what will the Yin family think?"
At this moment, Finn suddenly started to talk about an unrelated person, "Arvin, we all know you were engaged to marry Rosa, so why are you living with Angela? How will you explain this to the Yin family?"
When it came to Angela, Arvin's face darkened. He said, "She lives at my place because we are working together on a research project. It has nothing to do with her."
"Everyone in the hospital knows what you and Angela did at the artificial lake. Will you insist you are innocent?"
"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Arvin asked, and cast his eagle eyes on Nita, whose words stung him.
Nita was afraid of him, and of what he could do. She clenched her fists and stopped talking out of fear of his antipathy.
Finn's heart was broken when she saw her daughter's aggrieved look."Can you make sure nothing happened between you and Angela when you lived together?"
Arvin's face darkened even more. He was indeed very intimate with Angela.
But he did not take her virginity...
When Arvin was thinking about how to reply, James laughed scornfully and said, "Don't try to fool me as you fooled Nita! What could a rookie nurse in Yao Hospital do to help with your project?"
"I believe that you know a maxim, sir-- Don't judge a book by its cover," Arvin said with a faint smile.
This smile made Nita's breath quicken.
Arvin's smile was breathtaking...
"What do you mean?" James was perplexed. He couldn't believe such a simple-minded girl could have any gifts.
"Look, ten years ago, the son of Chuck at Chengyang Private Hospital, Sven, invented a formula to cure eye disease and it caused a stir in medical community. Do you remember?"
Finn and Nita were both medical workers. They knew it well.
So, James had also learnt a little about it.
Even Teresa, though she remained silent since the conversation started, could not help showing her admiration when she called to mind her daughter's words about Angela.
Angela Si, Sven Si... "They are siblings?" Nita suddenly became enlightened.
Arvin tacitly agreed.
"Well," Finn said, "let's say they are siblings. What of it?"
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