Me After Meeting You

Calvin’s mother clearly didn’t believe her. “It’s more like you can’t explain it at all, right? Honestly, I’ve seen plenty of girls like you. Regardless of whether or not you have a job, all you can do is try to catch a good man and climb the social ladder that way, not even caring if you can handle it!

It’s just that I didn’t imagine that you wouldn’t let go even after I talked to you so candidly that day. Hah, if I can’t make it clear to you, then I’m going to find your director and give him a piece of my mind!”

After she said this, Calvin’s mother got up and prepared to leave. At this point, Amber almost thought that Calvin’s mother, whom she’d known in the past, was a fake all along! What did she say just now? That time that she called her over to Calvin stepfather’s house, when she had displayed both her weakness and her aptitude for being endlessly bothersome, was that all to dissuade her from marrying Calvin?

Amber was honestly quite impressed by Calvin mother’s train of thought. She could deeply feel how her mental compass had been twisted and distorted by her long years of fighting with her stepchildren over the Wang inheritance. To a person like her, no amount of reason could explain anything.

“Mrs. Kenric, I hope that you won’t make this messy.” When Amber saw that Calvin’s mother was about to head out, Amber quickly spoke out. “Or it will be hard for me to promise that you’ll get what you want.”

“What do you mean?” Calvin’s mother turned around to glare at her. “Are you threatening me?”

“No.” Amber sighed. “I only wanted to advise you to be prudent with this matter. Presbiterian has reporter correspondence connections to the major media outlets. If you make a big fuss, I can’t promise that news of this matter will be suppressed, or how deeply the reporters will investigate.

Regardless, if you really want Calvin to marry a wife that will be of use to him, like Miss Melody Lee, then I think it’s better if you save him some face.

Additionally, I’d also like to tell you that I indeed like Calvin very much. However, it’s not enough for me to eschew everything else. With a mother like you, it will be difficult for him to ever have a happy marriage, and I don’t plan on taking on such a difficult challenge.”

After Amber finished her speech, she walked over and opened the door for Calvin’s mother. “Please choose wisely.”

And then she saw Calvin standing outside the door, his face stark white, looking at her with a mournful expression.

Amber was at an utter loss for words.

It hadn’t been that long since she had last seen Calvin, but he seemed to become much thinner, his face was now wan and sallow, and his overall demeanor exuded exhaustion.

She felt like she was once again looking at that miserable high school youth who was silent and dyed with a melancholy unbefitting of his age.

He looked at her for quite a while before he turned towards his mother and hoarsely said, “Ma, I’ll promise you, I’ll promise you anything. Please, can you drop this matter about transferring Elly away?”

Calvin’s mother glanced at Amber before responding, “You promise?”

Almost as if she were asking Amber.

Calvin looked down. “Yes.”

And then his mother left; of course, before leaving, she also dragged Calvin away, and warned Amber one last time. “I’ll still transfer her away if her illness doesn’t improve.”

Of course, this warning was more of an excuse, a pretense that gave off the impression that her ardent desire to transfer Elly out of Presbiterian was purely because she cared about her illness, and was worried about Amber’s medical expertise being inadequate.

But Amber ignored her two-faced excuse. She was feeling very gloomy-in the end she had had to rely on Calvin to resolve this problem, and it even seemed like he had been forced into a disadvantageous compromise to do so.

Her heart was in shambles, an indescribable feeling. So, when Calvin later invited her out to dinner, she ultimately decided to go.

Calvin had always been considerate, but this time, he had chosen a restaurant that was quite far away from her. Only when Amber arrived did she realize that it was next to a middle school. And by that time, school had already ended; the students were all gone, and the area by the school doors was deserted. As the car drove past it, she clearly saw the school name.

The nearby surroundings had all changed; only that school door remained the same.

When she arrived at the designated restaurant, Calvin was already standing outside, staring into the window. His face was bathed in the soft glow of the twilight sunset, giving him a somewhat bleak appearance.

Amber walked over. He didn’t turn around as he said, “I remember the first time we met, when we were both competing in a math competition here. I didn’t expect that, even after all these years, this school would still be around.”

Amber smiled. “How old were we back then? Fourteen, I think?”

Calvin nodded. “I was fifteen, and we were in the eighth grade. Middle school was really the most relaxing period of my life. At that time, even though our family was so poor, he hadn’t found us yet. My mom was doing her best to support me, and I wanted to give up on school to help her make more money.”

So at that time, the reason why he had purposefully failed his test wasn’t to accompany her. Rather, it was to lower his mother’s expectations of him so that he wouldn’t have to continue going to school and could instead go find a job and start earning money.

And here, Amber had always thought that it was to accompany her.

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Amber remained silent for a while, and then smiled. “No matter how good the past was, people have to look forward. Today, thank you for your help.”