—- Chapter 16 If Like Her The butler simply smiled politely and ignored Janices bark.
He left the study after putting down the cup of coffee, leaving Janice to rage on her own
He followed Jared to the courtyard, but the wind was strong due to the heavy rain outside.
Mr.
Crawford, the wind is too strong outside.
You haven’t fully recovered after being discharged from the hospital a while ago, so you should go back inside.
she said something similar in the past, Jared suddenly uttered.
The butler was startled.
However, Jared kept staring at the falling rain as he took trip down the memory lane.
When we were still studying at university, she would always run to my class when it rains to give me an umbrella.
She never cared if she was caught in the rain she was always so silly.
He suddenly smiled, and his pale face glowed as though he was yearning for something.
She always brought me a towel and a bottle of mineral water whenever I played basketball; she spectated every single tournament I played and cheered the loudest each time I scored…
1 Eventually, Jared stopped.
He never bothered when Gwen was still around because he took everything for granted.
When he finally looked back at those memories, every scene was so sweet yet so bitter.
No sacrifice in the world was taken for granted, of course.
—- Jared was used to demanding everything from Gwen, but he forgot that he had never given anything in return.
1 The butler finally raised a question, Mr.
Crawford, I never understood why you hate Mrs.
Crawford so much.
You’ve known each other for ten years, and its clear to us how well she treats you.
Besides, she has never done anything wrong, so why do you…
Why do you despise and hate her so much? [ have no idea why I hate her so much either.
Every time I saw her following me like a fool and said Jared, Jared, I just felt annoyed.
When she confessed to me in front of everyone in the school, I was embarrassed.
I didnt like anything she did, so I disliked her.
Jared felt like his heart was cut by a knife when he spoke about the past.
I got together with Janice because of the medicine, yet Gwen kept following me shamelessly.
Everyone chastised her for being a mistress, so I hated her even more.
Shes really annoying, and she never stopped saying how much she liked me.
I’ve never seen a woman like her.
The butler looked at him, but was hesitant to respond.
Jared continued, She even told my dad that she liked me, and my dad forced me to marry her as a result.
I hate being controlled by others, and its her fault that it happened, so tell me, how can I like her? Mir.
Crawford, have you ever wondered perhaps you never hated Mrs.
Crawford? The butler sighed.
—- It was because Jared did not know what love was that he regarded the feeling of annoyance, which he felt during his first encounter of love, as a type of disgust.
Jared mistook his lack of courage to get closer to Gwen as a reluctance to be close to her he had misjudged his feelings.
Jared seemed to look paler as he fixed his gaze on the raindrops.
He had been having complicated and strange moods lately because of Gwen, but he somehow found the reason after hearing what the butler said.
He never hated Gwen.
He had always liked Gwen.
Throughout the ten years, Jared enjoyed Gwens pursuit and sacrifices while blaming her for not being reserved like a woman should be; he felt that everything she did was a matter of course while feeling disgusted at her confession, but it was actually because she did not want her to be called a mistress Jared loathed Gwen after their marriage not exactly because she had forced him to marry her, but because she had slept with another man during their wedding night.
Jared could not accept Gwens betrayal, thus he adopted various methods to humiliate her.
Allin all, it was because he loved her too much.
Jared clenched his heart as if he was about to vomit blood again.
He said with deep sorrow, If…
IfI like her, what about everything that happened these years? 1
