Chapter 1369 - 1408: There Will Be a New Beginning

His hand lifted, pulling over the hand she still had stroking his hair, then brought her hand to his cheek, gently rubbing against it. "Good... that’s good..."

Mabel Quinn let out a sigh. The two of them just stood there quietly like that, her palm filled with the warmth of his cheek.

No one knew how long had passed before Mabel spoke again. "Then let’s both take good care of these two bracelets."

He lifted his eyes. "Okay." He answered, then lowered his head to look again at the two bracelets in his hand, and his brows furrowed slightly. "The leather on this bracelet is already cracking. I’ll find someone to ask later, see if it can be maintained and treated properly, otherwise..." He didn’t finish the rest, but Mabel knew he meant that because the leather cord had already become brittle, it could easily break.

Back then, the leather cord she’d chosen to weave the bracelet with wasn’t anything high-end, just something she’d bought by the roadside.

"I can still make new ones. Even if these two bracelets eventually become brittle and crack with time, I can still weave new bracelets," Mabel said. "Even though time takes away a lot of old things, it also gives birth to new things."

His brows gradually relaxed. "Yeah, something new will be born..."

So there would also be new hope...

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Alessia Quinn never imagined she would actually see her own fiancé cheating on her with her own eyes in a nightclub. Before they got engaged, she already knew Tobias Houghton had plenty of women, and she hadn’t taken it to heart. She even felt that she could defeat those women and eventually get engaged to him—that was her own skill, her own capability.

But now, reality was like a vicious slap across her face.

These days, in the upper circles of J City, there had been rumors that Tobias was frequently showing up at nightclubs. A few socialites who had a decent relationship with her even reminded her that they’d seen Tobias keeping a young mistress in one of those places.

Alessia was furious, storming forward and landing a hard slap on Tobias.

And what happened? The man who had said at their engagement that he would treat her well for a lifetime raised his hand and slapped her back.

"Tobias, you hit me? You actually dare to hit me?" Alessia’s face was full of disbelief. She lifted her hand, wanting to slap him again, but this time, her hand was caught by him midair.

Tobias’s expression was dark as he said, "Alessia Quinn, you’d better behave yourself, understand? You think you’re still the eldest young lady of the Quinn Family? What kind of background do you think you have? If it wasn’t originally for the fact that your uncle had no sons, you think I would have gotten engaged to you? When all’s said and done, you’re nothing but an illegitimate daughter. Your mother played mistress to your father for so many years—do you really think your reputation is so spotless?"

Alessia was shaking with rage. Tobias’s words had undoubtedly stabbed at the thing she was most sensitive about. "You... what did you say?! Say that again if you dare!"

"Heh..." Tobias let out a careless laugh. "You think at this point I still need to save you any face? Our family has already decided—we’re calling off the engagement. You’re on your own from now on."

The words "calling off the engagement" made Alessia’s expression change drastically.

"Calling off the engagement? You’re actually calling off the engagement? Tobias, if it weren’t for me, would the Houghton Family have gotten those orders from the Quinn Family? And now you want to burn the bridge after crossing the river? You’ve been using me from the start!" Alessia shouted angrily.