Chapter 1197
She then asked, “When did you start liking me? Why didn’t I know?”
At that, he only smiled at her in response.
Recalling her past, Ruka had only returned to the country once every two years after she left for abroad
at the age of sixteen. However, she never got to meet him every time she was back, so she
disregarded the times she had been back. Hence, she was unclear just when Ren had started having
feelings for her.
“When you were five years old, you were just a little brat that kept pestering me. You would not only
tear up my homework, but you would even snatch my pen away from me. When you couldn’t get what
you wanted, you’d even start crying out loud. You were like a small little tyrant back in the day.” Ren
reminisced about the past.
Dumbfoundedly staring at Ren, Ruka froze midway through eating the drumstick in her hand. “Don’t tell
me you’re…”
As Ren’s face grew stern, Ruka immediately suppressed herself from finishing the sentence. With her
cheeks blushing, she took a bite out of the drumstick before she resentfully said, “Weren’t you afraid
that I would grow up to have a crooked appearance? Even if I was pretty when I was a kid, I’m sure it’ll
be a different story for you if I grew up to be an ugly girl, right?”
Ren laughed soundlessly at Ruka’s question. “Are you that confident that you’re pretty now?”
Feeling her cheeks growing warmer, Ruka retorted, “If I wasn’t, I’m sure you wouldn’t have liked
me.”
Ren locked his gaze at Ruka upon her words and shook his head. “I fell for you not only because of
your looks.” In brief, the feelings he had for her were out of his control. Back when she was nineteen,
she had returned to visit her relatives. He was in the garden when she had just gotten out of the car.
Even though he was already planning to leave at the time, he couldn’t do so, as he was engrossed in
looking at how innocent she was. It was then he realized the feelings he had for her weren’t the same
kind he had when she was still a child, but it was the same kind one would have for another adult. She
had held a small place in his heart until it was gradually fully filled by her.
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