Magnolia Hearne’s intuition has always been very accurate, whether as a mother or as a wife.
So that night, as they were getting ready for bed, the moment Luca Jennings’ phone on the bedside table lit up, she sensed something was off.
Luca Jennings is a meticulous and responsible person, and even when he’s busy, he would always glance at messages on his phone.
Just like at this moment, Luca picked up the phone, glanced at it for a moment, then turned off the screen and put it down, intending to cuddle back to sleep with his wife, but Magnolia suddenly sat up,
"Turn your head towards me."
Luca didn’t understand why, but as if he had suddenly thought of something, he pushed his gold-rimmed glasses up and sat up, looking at her.
Magnolia reached out, directly took off his glasses, and then intensely stared at his face.
One second, two seconds.
Luca was still confused, then saw the person in front of him suddenly cross her arms, squinting her eyes, looking at him with a very complex expression, then said something quite familiar.
She said,
"You’re done for; you have bad romance luck."
Luca: ...
The reason it sounded familiar was because back then, when he went to pick up Scarlett after her variety recording ended, the recording guest’s first words to him were that he had bad romance luck and a tendency to attract troublesome people.
And sure enough, later on, there was that incident where Odessa invited him out alone.
Even now, thinking about that incident still makes him feel uneasy.
After Magnolia came back, he had everyone who knew about it at the time seal their lips.
He just didn’t want Magnolia to find out that he had anything to do with Odessa and Michael Jennings’ divorce.
Luca always thought he hid it well, but little did he know that Magnolia had already known. However, because she trusted Luca and Odessa had been abroad for the past two years, she pretended not to know.
But now, upon hearing "bad romance luck," Luca’s first reaction was to think of Odessa.
If he remembered correctly, recently his brother returned from a monastery and casually mentioned that Odessa was coming back to the country.
Could it be her again?
Thinking of this, Luca’s gaze turned a bit sharp for a moment.
In that split second, he even thought of at least five ways to force her to stay abroad and never come back.
Though this might cause Ismeria some grievance, not being able to see her mother again.
But his niece has grown up; she should be able to understand the divorce.
As thoughts swirled in Luca’s mind, Magnolia just quietly watched the changes on his face, squinted her eyes again, and asked,
"Luca, who are you thinking about?"
Pausing, she asked with a playful smile,
"Or maybe too many people popped into your head at once, and you’re not sure which one is your ’bad romance’?"
The implication was that he had affairs outside, and many of them!
Upon hearing this, Luca felt a chill down his spine; this moment felt even more pressuring than when Scarlett pointed out his bad romance luck back in the day.
But after so many years of calm and collected experience, Luca almost immediately, with a firm denial,
"No!"
All these years, there has only been her.
Even when she wasn’t around those years, he’d never been with anyone else.
This was serious, and he had to clarify.
"Rather than romance issues, I might be dealing with troublesome people."
Luca insisted that he had no romantic entanglements, just people causing him trouble.
"I’ll ask Scarlett to draw me an Anti-backstabbing Talisman tomorrow."
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