Chapter 163

S―he had replied with a text, asking him if he was surprised or disappointed.

But in this second, she could no longer ask the question twice.

She didn't mention it, but he did. "Remember the text I sent you?"

"Yes."

"I was thinking that Alice is actually so good-looking." Patrick said with a smile. He took the plate in front of her, picked up his fork and spoon, and started to crumble the fried egg. "When I was young, I was blind, and always felt that everyone around me cared about Mary. I thought..."

"You think I'm ugly?" Alice asked.

"Yeah. I remember that before I entered the surgery room, I had set precausion in my mind. No matter how ugly Alice is, I can't show it on my face and I will marry her." Patrick said as he continued stirring the egg.

Hearing this, Alice couldn't help but laugh out loud, "At that time, you were only twenty. You have been saying this ever since I entered the Clyne family at the age of thirteen."

He was always saying over and over that he wanted to marry her.

"But I'm not joking."

Patrick said with a solemn tone as he looked at her with his narrow eyes.

Alice's face stiffened, unable to meet his eyes.

"Alice, let's get married." Patrick suddenly said.

Hearing this, Alice looked at him in disbelief, "What did you say?"

"We've missed each other for six years since I lost my memory." Patrick stared at her and said seriously, "I don't want to waste time anymore."

"Patrick!"

Patrick pushed the crushed Egg-Packed Rice in front of her, "You always liked to eat this way, I don't know if it's the same as yours or not."

Alice lowered her head, only to see that the egg had already been completely shattered by him, mixed together with rice and ketchup.

It looked very much like Egg Fried Rice.

"Don't you want to eat the dish?" Patrick stared at her.

'Oh, okay.' Alice used her spoon to scatter the rice on the plate, when she suddenly heard a clear sound.

A transparent piece of paper wrapped around a diamond ring that was surrounded by rice.

The diamonds were cut into beautiful snowflake shapes, sparkling and translucent.

Alice was dumbstruck and looked at the man in front of her in shock.

"I'll always remember when you saved me in the snow."

"I remember everything, and I don't think there's anything more difficult than that. Alice, I will use the shortest amount of time to make it up to you." Patrick said sincerely.

He was proposing to her.

A sudden proposal.

Alice was silent.

She sat there, her head lowered, not moving for a long time. Alice slowly raised her head and looked at him, her voice was still hoarse.

She didn't want to hurt him, but she had to.

She did not want to lie to Patrick.

Patrick stared at her, his face showing no surprise, as if he already knew that she would give such an answer.

"Patrick, I don't want to lie to you." Alice paused, pursed her lips and said softly after a long while, "I seem to have fallen in love with William."

I seem to have fallen in love with William.

She confessed to him, as she always did, in a way that made him hate her.

Patrick stared at her, his gaze gloomy, "When did it start?"

Alice lowered her eyes and stared at the Egg-Packed Rice on the plate, "I don't know. It seems that this feeling has become stronger and stronger recently, so strong that I can't ignore it anymore."

"Are you sure that's what you like? Isn't it because of the habit of getting along with each other day and night?" Patrick asked.

"I don't know."

Alice was also unable to confirm it herself. It was true that she had developed a lot of habits because of him, such as waking up early in the morning to cook for him.

Today, when she woke up, she almost wanted to ask what he would like to eat. Only then did she realize that the room wasn't the same room from before, and there wasn't William on the bed either.

Only now did she realize that she had already broken off all ties with William.

"What about me? What do you think?" Patrick continued to ask, "In these six years, before you met William, you kept trying to make me recover my memories, didn't you?"

The rice on the plate was slowly cooling down.

Alice looked at Patrick in shock. He was not an overbearing person, but he had been asking her questions this entire time.

Seeing that she was silent, Patrick asked, "Is it hard to answer?"

"Back then, I really wanted to let you regain your memories." Alice said, she was very honest, "Maybe it's because of the joke you made before you entered the operation room, that if you lose your memories, I have to help you recover it." She had always remembered that sentence deeply.

"Maybe it's because the gap between us was too big, you were always accompanying me. Suddenly, there came a day when I no longer needed to accompany you, and you were together with Mary every day. I felt troubled in my heart."

"Can't this be interpreted as jealousy?" Patrick asked.

"Maybe." Alice did not deny it, "But after all these years, I seem to be getting more and more tired, and I am also not willing to give up."

"There's something I've never told you." Alice looked up at him.

Patrick held his silver spoon and suddenly said, "I suddenly don't want to know anymore, let's eat."

Alice pursed her lips, did not speak further, and picked up the spoon.

Since he didn't want to hear it, she didn't want to talk about it.

"Go ahead." Patrick's contradictory voice suddenly came over, "I still want to know."

Alice lowered her head, suppressed her voice, and said, "Actually, although I was sad the moment I told you that I had given up on you, but also I felt relieved that I no longer felt any jealousy towards you two."

He knew what she meant.

She gave up on him.

"Too many things have happened in the past six years. Maybe I really did like you before, but these things are too much a burden for me, and I don't have the strength to persevere anymore." Alice said in a low voice.

In the past six years, she had been ridiculed by all people around her, including him. She had been betrayed by all of her relatives, and she had now broken off all relations with her foster parents.

Everything.

With all of these on her shoulders, she no longer had the strength to love this man in front of her.

"Even if I recover my memories now, but you don't lose your memories. You can't forget about the stress you went through, and you can't be as good to me as before, right?"

He could not have analyzed more correctly.

'Tm sorry."

Alice lowered her head.

"Why did you apologize to me?" Patrick asked.

Alice lowered her head and only after a long time did she slowly raise her head to look at him, "It's because you're back, but I can't go back."

He recovered his memories, ignoring everything else to become the previous Patrick, but she could not.

You're back, but I can't go back.

There was guilt and unspeakable sadness in the low voice.

At least, at this moment, the tear in her eyes was all for him.

Patrick stared at her, then suddenly turned his head to look at her. His eyes were shining with tear, he tried his best to cover it up, but couldn't.

He recovered the memory of the girl he desperately wanted while she told him, "You're back, but I can't go back."

"Six years. It's only six years, and I've already missed everything." Patrick said bitterly, "Alright, let's not bring it up, let's eat."

Alice no longer had any appetite, so she scooped up a spoonful and put it in her mouth.

Outside the restaurant, a tall figure was sitting in the back seat of a low-profile commercial vehicle. He wore a grey shirt with two buttons on the collar, and his handsome face was filled with malice. His black eyes looked at the two people in the restaurant with jealousy.

Alice and Patrick sat at a seat close to the window, and talked the entire time.

"How long will they talk?"

William sat on the car and smashed the cartoon in his hand onto the car seat.

The cartoon he stepped on last night was picked up by him again.

Daniel sat on the gunshot, looking at the two people in the restaurant, he asked, "Young Master, should we send someone over now?"

Last night, young master did not sleep.

He got up and personally formulated a series of methods to deal with Patrick and Alice.

Following that, not only did the Young Master personally set it up, he even supervised it personally. Simply put, it was to personally follow Alice.

"Why rush? We have to destroy it at the best time!"

William said coldly.

"But we don't know what they're talking about from this distance." Daniel asked in confuse, how to find "the best time"?

"Are you stupid? You don't even understand this! When that man proposed marriage to Alice, as long as Alice did not agree, he would keep persuading her!" "The man will give the Egg-Packed Rice to her to eat, she said that this is the Egg-Fried Rice, Alice said that she likes to eat the g-Fried Rice cooked by William!" William said coldly, his gloomy face looked slightly relaxed, "Seems like she's still sensible. She's wearing my ring, not his!"

If she wore that ring today, he'd burn the whole restaurant!

"Ah, it's like that." Daniel was enlightened, he felt that he had finally understood a silent film, and asked: "Young Master, why don't I remember that you have learnt lip-speaking before, is it by yourself?"

"I didn't!"

He had never learned about it, then, where did his confidence to read lips come from?

Daniel secretly wiped off his sweat.

"Actually, I don't understand."

William suddenly said with a lowered voice. Without the confidence from earlier, he withdrew his gaze and his pair of black eyes dimmed.

He didn't understand a word.

He didn't know what Alice and Patrick had said. Maybe they were sharing the feelings they had last night, on the bed, or maybe they were speaking ill of him.

He didn't know, he didn't know anything.

This woman had left him so decisively.

William raised his head and looked in the direction of the dining hall, only to see Alice starting to eat, eating the Egg-Packed Rice that Patrick had stirred up for her.

How could she eat food that was served by another men!

How could she!

William's eyes revealed a dense amount of jealousy, his expression gradually darkened, as he gritted his teeth and enunciated each word, "Do it."