CHAPTER 430: CHAPTER 430: ACTUALLY, HE DOESN’T LIKE ME THAT MUCH 10

Chloe Grant lowered her eyes.

Ralph Koch simply crouched down, then looked up at her, "So, all along, you’ve actually misunderstood him... or rather, you never truly got to know him."

"Maybe this is a good opportunity."

Ralph Koch stood up, his tone softening, "To let you see what you’re like without Matthew Morgan.

I also hope you can be brave for your feelings, and at the same time, really get to know him.

He really..."

"Is wonderful."

The last two words, Ralph Koch said so softly that Chloe Grant almost couldn’t hear them.

She looked up, just in time to meet Ralph Koch’s gaze...

His eyes were on her, but unfocused, as if he wasn’t looking at her at all.

As if he was lost in some world of his own.

Ralph Koch lowered his eyes, "Back then, when you liked Lucas, you liked him silently, secretly had a crush on him, and in the end, you watched helplessly as Lily Grant got him before you could.

Without even mentioning the tangled lines of feelings between you, just this point alone... Chloe Grant, you’re just too timid in love."

A secret crush is the most unwise and also the most painful way of feeling.

Some people say that a secret crush is the only kind of love you can retreat from unscathed.

But...

Where in love is there a thing like "retreating unscathed"?

Even with a secret crush, in the end, you’re left with a body full of wounds and exhaustion.

The saddest part of a secret crush is that from beginning to end, only you know of your pain and endurance.

It’s truly a one-man show; you start silently, the plot twists and turns, a single smile can portray a life-and-death departure. Yet... he never knew.

From start to finish, he might not even count as a spectator.

So, how painful a secret crush is...

"Chloe Grant, be a bit braver! Right now, you still have the last shred of happiness in your hands, it’s just a matter of whether you want to grab it."

Ralph Koch took Chloe Grant’s hand, his gaze serious.

"You have to remember, there are people in this world who envy your place in his heart. Even more envy the fact that you can still strive to be with him. I hope you don’t waste it.

I also hope you can bravely face yourself and courageously fight for your feelings."

As Ralph Koch spoke, he tightened his grip on Chloe Grant’s hand a bit more.

She did not respond, just leaned weakly against the wall.

Every word Ralph Koch said hit her right in the heart.

Back then, it was her own weakness, never daring to express her feelings in front of Lucas.

She understood all of Lucas’s goodness.

Knew all of Lucas’s sorrows, but she never spoke of them.

It wasn’t that there wasn’t an opportunity, it was that she didn’t dare to speak...

In love, Chloe Grant was just a timid and passive person.

She secretly admired, like every girl, carrying hope in her heart, hoping the one she had a crush on would speak to her first, would take her hand first.

But...

Those who are passive often end up seeing the one they love take someone else’s hand.

In this world, being passive means enduring the pain of loss.

"Think it over carefully. What I can tell you is, before today, I was unsure whether Cloudy was Matthew Morgan’s biological child. Today, I can be completely sure!

Because... if a child were his biological child, just taken out by me for a moment, he wouldn’t be so urgently frantic to get them back."

The only possibility that would make him so anxious is: if the child is out of his sight, it’s dangerous.