Chapter 14: Change of Person
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"Are you going to speak? Or shall I?" Before Catherine Shang's buttocks even touched the sofa, Edward Shang had already opened his mouth.
Catherine Shang secretly glanced at Edward Shang from the corner of her eye, and immediately noticed that he and her mother exchanged a look.
"Catherine is my daughter. Of course, I should be the one to talk about this kind of thing." Diana Wang took Catherine's hand and gently patted it a few times.
"Catherine! Mommy knows you've always been the most obedient." There was a glint of water in her eyes.
Oh no! The tear - attack again!
Catherine Shang nodded, and couldn't help but tremble a little in her heart. This scene was very similar to when she was asked to agree to the blind date last time!
"Although you are not Uncle Shang's biological daughter, he has raised you without any complaints. Also, although Sophia has a different father from you, you are still born of the same mother after all..." Diana Wang chattered on.
At this, Catherine not only felt her heart tremble, but her scalp was about to tingle. Her intuition told her that this situation might be more serious than when she was asked to go on a blind date.
"Mom, what on earth are you trying to say? I've never thought that Sophia isn't my sister!" Anyway, she thought, she might as well let her ears have some peace earlier since she was doomed either way.
"Really?" Diana Wang excitedly grabbed her hands, and the glint of tears in her eyes disappeared instantly, replaced by a bright light, which was very dazzling. "Since that's the case, Mommy will tell you straight."
"Okay, go ahead! As long as it's something I can do, I won't refuse." Catherine's hands, which were tightly held, were really a bit painful. She forced a stiff smile and then quickly pulled them back.
"With your words, Mommy can rest assured." Diana Wang said and glanced at Edward Shang.
Then, she withdrew her gaze and spoke again: "Regarding the matter of asking you to marry Ryan Long before, your Uncle Shang and I have discussed it again, and the result is - - we think you and he don't seem to be a good match."
"Ah?" Catherine widened her eyes in surprise, and a sudden burst of wild joy flooded into her heart.
Great! She doesn't have to get married!
Diana Wang mistook her surprise for opposition and said again: "We think he and Sophia are a better match."
"Eh? Mom, are you crazy?" Sophia widened her eyes and sprang up from the sofa, with one hand on her hip.
"Edward! Take her away, take her away. You talk to her." In order to prevent Sophia from hindering her from persuading Catherine, Diana Wang waved her hand, asking her husband to take her aside first.
Edward Shang cooperatively dragged Sophia away, and the father - daughter pair pushed open the French windows and walked onto the balcony.
"Mom, isn't Sophia still under seventeen?" Looking at their backs, Catherine asked.
"Being under seventeen isn't such a big deal. Didn't I marry your deadbeat father when I was only sixteen?"
This was very different from what her mother said last time. What a huge reversal!
"But why does Sophia have to get married? I think that Long... Ryan Long, is at least thirty years old, right? There's such a big age gap between them." He was arrogant and self - centered. How could a girl marry such a man?
"Oh! Age won't be a problem." Diana Wang leaned forward again and tightly held Catherine's hands. "Anyway, when the lights are off at night, it doesn't matter who it is."
"Mom!" Catherine was very surprised that her mother would say such a thing.
"Unless you don't want to?" Diana Wang frowned, glared, and immediately turned hostile.
"How could I not want to." "Thank God" was not enough to describe her gratitude at this moment.
However, no matter how happy she was that she didn't have to be with that awful man anymore, she also opposed her mother pushing her sister into the fire pit.
"Since you are willing, it's settled. I will find another time to arrange for Sophia and Ryan Long to meet." Diana Wang had already started planning in her mind where to take her precious daughter for a makeover.
"Mom..." Catherine wanted to remind her that Ryan Long was a man with a false appearance.
She had seen his evil side; she had witnessed his overbearingness; and only she had personally experienced how unscrupulous he could be.
But his kiss, his scent, were still deeply imprinted in her mind even now, making it impossible for her to forget.
"This matter is decided as such." Diana Wang waved her hands, indicating that there was no need to discuss this matter any further. Catherine looked at her, and then turned to look at the father - daughter pair on the balcony, and her heart sank in dismay. Sophia had already shaken off the gloom from just now, with a happy and delighted expression, pushed open the French windows and ran towards her.
"Big sister, you are so nice! Daddy said you would surely give Ryan Long to me."
Looking at her, Catherine didn't know how to say the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
Forget it! Many things cannot be changed just because she wants to.
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