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Nicole could no longer endure the inner torment. The words that she had hidden in her heart for years burst out like a flood. She no longer cared about the world's eyes and the shackles of her identity, and just wanted to pour out her feelings. "Didn't you say that I am adopted by my parents and we are not related by blood? If we are not related by blood, why can't we like each other?" Julian certainly remembered these words, but at this moment they were abroad. He knew very well that once Nicole returned to China, would she still be so firm and reckless? The answer was probably no.

Her love was neither firm nor decisive enough, and this hesitant love was undoubtedly the greatest harm to her.