Seeing the guilty look on her face, Arvin immediately struck while the iron was hot, and asked, "Do you know why Daniel and others came to our house earlier today?"
Angela shook her head.
"I asked them to come over and help me persuade you. I want to win back your love for me. If you don't believe me, you can send them messages to check if I asked them to persuade you..." The premise, of course, was that she could only ask them one question: did they come to persuade her?
Thinking of the hostility some of them showed towards Fabian during the day, Angela now finally believed in Arvin. 'I'm such an asshole!!' she cursed herself silently.
With that, she took out her cell phone, found Jerry's WeChat, and typed out a line, "Jerry, were you here today, to help Arvin persuade me?"
Then she glanced at Arvin while waiting for Jerry's reply, and then sent Scott the same message.
While they waited, Scott replied to her first, and in the message he said, "Yes, Arvin has always been very kind to you. Angela, you should live your life with him! Now that you're married and pregnant, you should stop messing around."
Angela was stunned, speechless.
Arvin cleared his throat, and choked back a laughter. Arvin was aware that Scott loved Lulu, so he decided to help Scott pursue her in exchange for his help.
However, Scott wasn't even talking to Angela about Fabian. All he talked about was regarding the time when Angela was returning to C Country from J City while she was pregnant...
Unintentionally, he had ended up helping Arvin since Angela had no memories of this matter.
Later, Jerry replied to her by voice, "Yes, Angela, Sally had told me everything about what was going on. She often keeps an eye on you and Arvin. For the sake of Arvin's love for you, please go back to J City with him! He is a very busy man, with a lot of responsibilities. Please don't make him travel back and forth between two places all the time. Be good and listen to me. Quit being a baby, and please try to be more considerate."
To persuade or convince someone, one had to know a lot about the person they were going to persuade. Jerry had asked Sally all the necessary details about Arvin and Angela's married life in order to help them find happiness.
It was only after he had learned so much about them that he was sure that Arvin was the perfect man for Angela, so he persuaded her with those words.
'Is "be good" an intimate way of talking?' There was a gleam of displeasure in Arvin's eyes. Arvin was not pleased about the intimate way Jerry talked to Angela, even though they only treated her as their little sister.
He felt it necessary to let them know that he is Angela's husband and the others should keep a certain distance from her.
Angela was extremely puzzled. She wondered why Arvin, who was usually quite devoid of emotions, was looking at her with so much warmth and tenderness in his eyes. 'Did we really... fall in love before?'
She even had no idea why she had said that Fabian was her boyfriend.
There was only one possibility: everything Arvin said was true.
"Did... we come together naturally? How did that happen?" she asked cautiously.
"You loved me and I loved you, so we were together." The simpler the explanation of such things, the better.
"Hmm... Then I won't ever... contact Fabian again." Angela assured Arvin guiltily.
'When I eloped with Fabian, it must have broken Arvin's heart! Alas!' Angela let out a sigh in her heart.
Arvin stopped, once he heard what he had been wanting to hear. Not wanting Angela to feel too guilty, he gently coaxed, "All right, honey, that's all right as long as we are together from now on! It's getting late. It's time for us to rest. You're carrying our twins. Aren't you happy?" He was quite happy anyway.
'Happy?' Angela was more shocked than happy.
In her mind, she was still a college student, but after she woke up from sleep, she had found out that she was married to Arvin and had two children in her womb. She was freaking out.
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