“OK, President Howard, I’m wrong. Please don’t do that. Let’s go back.” Claire shakes her hand held by Leo helplessly and says weakly, “we’ve been in City B for so many days. We should go back. Tomorrow I’ll book two tickets back to City A and then we’ll go back to work, OK?”
“Don’t worry,” Leo turns back and smiles at her. “We seldom travel. We’ll play for another two days and then go back.”
“President, you are too headstrong.” Claire can’t help sneering.
“What does it matter?” Leo stops and looks down at Claire. There is a flash in his eyes. Claire looks up into his eyes and seems to see the stars all over the sky.
Leo says vaguely, “as long as you are with me, I can be headstrong.”
“...”
Claire looks at Leo quietly. For a moment her heart pounds with Leo’s words. Half of his face is in shadow under the light. Claire is fascinated by the subtle beauty.
No!
Leo just thinks of her as a toy. They just do it for the time being. No! Claire never thinks they have that relationship.
All this is Leo’s wishful thinking.
Claire turns around and doesn’t look at Leo. She says unnaturally, “president, please don’t joke. I’m just your secretary. If Tracy knows about it, she will definitely cut me with a knife.”
“Ah.” Leo looks up at the sky and suddenly sighs. Then he looks at Claire and says lightly, “don’t say something unpleasant on such a good night. Let’s go back to the hotel by ship.”
With that, he holds Claire’s hand and they cross their fingers.
This way of holding hands is too ambiguous. Claire can’t get rid of him.
Leo is a bully and unreasonable bastard. He says that. He has a fiancee waiting for him at home, but he’s playing outside with other women. If she were Tracy, she would have broken up with such a man.
Claire knows Leo’s flaws so she doesn’t care about their intimacy. Whatever he does, Claire is on guard. He is just playing with her. Don’t take it seriously!
At the same time, Claire is also worried. Why didn’t she learn Taekwondo before? So she has the strength to beat Leo and not be as passive as she is now.
She has to endure his teasing her. Claire is secretly troubled. When she finds her son, she must leave Leo early!
It’s a nice day today. Claire looks at Leo’s side face on the ship and asks in a low voice, “president, don’t you really remember a boy came to the company a few days ago and said something strange?”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Genius Son Sells his Mom to Dad
The storyline could have been better -- organization and cohesion of episodes could stand improvement, ending could have been more definitive resolving the many conflicts between the protagonists. Of course, the despicable treatment of Leo towards Claire initially, e.g., selling her off in an auction and giving her to the madam of the club as princess is inhuman and a violation to the wife's rights and honor. I was wondering why she did not leave after these maltreatments. Oh, well, the conclusion [if the narrative ends in Chapter 488] is quite disappointing and anti-climactic. Thank you just the same....
The end of the story is wanting, considering how the episodes build up to conflict after conflict and concluding in yet another conflict. But then c'est la vie! Thank you....