Out Of Luck In Love

“Ninian, you’re already thirty. You’re no longer young. Are you going to devote yourself to work for life? If you still won’t get married, come back and go on a blind date. Your aunt will introduce you to a boy. He’s coming back next month, and he seems like a good catch. Why don’t you meet him?”When it was almost time to clock off work, Ninian received a call from her mother.This was not the first time she called to urge her to get married. In the past, Ninian would always hesitate.But this time, she agreed to it. “Alright. Once I resign, I’ll go back.”Yvonne, her mother, was stunned. “You’re coming back?”“Yeah.” Ninian hung up and grabbed her handbag to go back when the intercom rang. “Come in.”When she opened the door, Ninian immediately saw the man standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.He was tall, and even though he was just standing there, his presence was incredibly daunting.Ninian walked over, and Conan Stone turned around. He whispered, “I’ll go to

While Ninian was preparing the documents Conan needed for the meeting, her stomach spasmed in pain.If it were in the past, she would have just endured it.But this time, without any hesitation whatsoever, she turned on an app that would help her make a reservation in a hospital.She wanted to take leave and visit the doctor.When Conan was in the meeting, he found himself unable to focus on it.All he could think about was Ninian. His eyes were fixed on her, but Ninian never looked at him.Once the meeting ended, it was time for lunch. He wanted to ask her to go out for lunch with him, only to realize that she was no longer in the office.“Where’s Ninian?”“Didn’t she tell you? She took leave for the afternoon.”“Where did she go?”She took leave? She had been working with Conan for years, but she had never taken leave before.Even when she was sick and nearly fainted, she still continued working.Why would she suddenly take leave and not tell him?“I don’t know. Let me c

Then, Conan turned around, along with the woman beside him.Ninian saw a woman with a face strikingly similar to hers, and she was smiling while she held Conan’s hand.At that moment, Ninian felt her blood freeze.Who was she? Conan’s crush?Ninian had been with Conan for seven years. Why did she never know that he had a crush?!Her heart spasmed in pain. She wanted to leave, but Conan called out to her. “You’ve arrived, Ninian.”“Ninian Springs? Conan Stone’s secretary?”“She looks so similar to Rose Charlemagne!”“Don’t you know? She’s just a replacement. I heard that during the years Rose wasn’t around, Conan Stone got a replacement. It must have been Ninian Springs!”Everyone stared at her while they talked about her.Those words kept pouring into her ears, and Ninian felt as if someone had seized her throat. She could not breathe.“Hello, Miss Springs.” Rose went over to Ninian and sized her up. “I’m sorry, I heard from Conan that you don’t like such banquets, but I rea

“Rose.”“Hello, Miss Springs.”Rose had gotten into her house and was sitting on her couch.In front of her was Ninian’s perfume.“This is my house. It’s not right for you to barge into my place like this,” Ninian said in a hostile tone as she stared at her.She hated people who dropped by unannounced.“Your house?” Rose smiled and twirled the keys in her hands. “If it’s your house, why do I have the keys?”She got up and went over to Ninian. “Are you seriously telling me that you don’t know that this house was actually meant for me? I didn’t want it, so Conan gave it to you instead.”Ninian’s breathing stuttered. As she stared at Rose, she pursed her lips and clenched her fists.Even the house was for Rose?“This perfume too.” Rose picked up the bottle on the table and spritzed it in the air.“Do you have a habit of touching other people’s stuff?” Ninian reached out to grab the bottle.Out of all his gifts, Conan had put the most effort into this one.Rose easily avoided

“No! She can’t have died! Find her! Even if you have to search through every corner of the world, find her!” Conan’s legs felt like jelly. No matter what, he could not stand on his own two feet.When he remembered Ninian’s despair and hate-filled gaze before he left, his heart clenched in unease.“Didn’t she hire those people? Why is she dead?”Conan rushed over to Crimson. Just as his assistant had said, the police had indeed locked the place down.Right when he approached the crowd, he heard a conversation.“That woman is so unlucky. I heard that she fought against those hooligans valiantly last night, and she died when one of them stabbed her with a broken beer bottle.”“What a loss of a perfectly good human being. I heard that she was covered in wounds and blood, and her clothes were in tatters. How pitiful.”“That’s right. If only someone had saved her. She must have been in such despair.”Their conversation reached his ears, and Conan walked to the room stiffly.The ro