Chapter 7

"Even if you hadn't agreed, I would've just given up the marriage alliance," I explained, not wanting Maurice to misunderstand. "Business can always be done again, but I couldn't go against my own heart and be with him." "But you seemed to like him a lot back then," he added. I used to have parents who loved each other deeply. After that tragedy, I kept chasing a kind of imagined perfection, clinging to it blindly. It wasn't until I died that I realized I had only been lying to myself. "Because I was young. If I didn't cling to liking someone back then, life felt empty," I confessed. "Later on, I understood that it was never love." Maurice and I made an agreement that we would give it three years. If, after three years, we felt we weren't right for each other, we would let each other go. As for why he agreed to my proposal, he kept it a secret. Of course, I had plenty of time to find out in this life. Our engagement was settled, and the engagement party was scheduled for next mon