“What plan?” Ralph was curious.
“I can’t tell you yet, but I’ll let you know when I succeed,” Hannah said softly, seeing his somewhat shocked expression, "It’s not that I want to hide it from you, but I’m not sure if it’ll work. Anyway, for our future, I have to take the risk!”
At the mention of “our future," Ralph felt touched and held her dainty hand as he said softly, “You saw what happened at the Russell Estate yesterday. I might have nothing left, and people would mock and look down on me. Are you sure you’re willing to be with me now?”
“Yes, I am!” She buried herself into his chest and said gently, “Those people know nothing about you. What do they know? They’re clueless about your ambitions. You’ve tried hard and are unlucky because your mom didn’t help you. It’s not your fault but theirs!”
Growing up in such an environment, Hannah had a twisted worldview and thought everything was unfair. ‘If parents could kill their children for a baseless curse, why should we care about kinship?
‘So what if Ralph isn’t related to Margaret by blood? She raised him for many years, but how could she expose him before all those people? What’s Ralph going to do for the rest of his life now?
‘These people are cruel, and Ralph is simply too pitiful. He’s just like me, deserted by the world. The world is huge, yet it has no place for us.’
Her words moved Ralph. Only her words have resonated with him since yesterday. He never expected that it would be this woman who understood him the most.
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