“I understand your sorrow and anger.But Miss Winter,once this agreement is filed,there truly is no return.It wasn’t easy for you and Mr.Cole to come this far.Do you remember?Back then,to win your grandfather’s approval,he stood outside the Winter estate for three days and two nights in the pouring rain.Burning with fever,yet he refused to leave.”
The words struck her like a key,suddenly unlocking a floodgate of memories.
How could she not remember?
Memories surged back like a tide.
At that time,Adrian Cole was not yet the commanding Mr.Cole he would later become,but merely an ambitious young man without any foundation.
Her father opposed him fiercely,believing his temperament was unstable and that he could never provide her with a steady life.
Adrian chose the clumsiest,yet the most sincere way to prove himself.
When her father tried to arrange a marriage between she and Jonathan Hale,Adrian stood outside in a torrential downpour,stubbornly demanding a chance.
Clara watched through the window as his drenched figure wavered yet remained upright.Her heart ached unbearably at the sight.
In the end,her father relented,and the two of them started from nothing.