Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 139: "If You Can’t Send Charcoal in the Snow, I Don’t Need Flowers on the Brocade.

Chapter 139: Chapter 139: "If You Can’t Send Charcoal in the Snow, I Don’t Need Flowers on the Brocade.

"Then I’ll learn. I’ll redeem you."

Rory Linden was quick to reply.

No matter what happened in the future, if she had the choice, she would redeem him. That was without a doubt.

Rory Linden was fairly good with numbers.

She quickly memorized the password and how to open the safe.

Sean Harrison listened as she recited it once, then said, "If you find it hard to remember, you can change it to a password related to your birthday, or something else."

"No need. I’ve really got it memorized."

At his request, Rory Linden tried it herself and opened the safe.

The most conspicuous items inside were three watch boxes.

"Why are these three watches in the safe?"

What made Rory Linden curious was that the thirty-million watch she had worn before was kept out in the open, so why were these three stored separately in the safe?

Sean Harrison casually picked up one of the boxes.

And opened it.

Inside lay a silver, diamond-encrusted Patek Philippe watch.

"This one is worth sixty million," Sean Harrison said. "If you’re ever short on cash, you can sell it directly. You might have to sell it for a bit less, but if they offer you under forty million, I suggest you ask around somewhere else."

Rory Linden quickly closed the watch box. "Hurry and put this... this thing worth tens of millions back."

Rory Linden had no concept of luxury goods, nor did she understand them.

All she heard was "sixty million."

She couldn’t understand why someone would spend tens of millions on a watch...

As an ordinary person, she figured she’d never need something like that in her entire life.

Rory Linden changed into her pajamas and took a shower.

Just as she came out of the bathroom, she saw Sean Harrison standing on the bedroom balcony, talking on the phone.

From her angle, she could only see his profile, but she could tell his expression was grim and clearly cold.

Just from that one expression, Rory Linden knew the call was most likely about Nadia Willow.

’Did Nadia Willow find some other problem after she got home?’

Previously, Rory Linden couldn’t quite understand why Nadia Willow was so obsessed with Sean Harrison.

But now, after seeing his sixty-million watch, she was beginning to understand.

She was an ordinary person, and her requirements for a good life were very simple.

Just a house of her own.

A stable job.

Preferably, a soulmate and a cute kid.

If she was unlucky enough not to find one, a pet would do just fine.

But for people of Nadia Willow’s class, they always wanted to keep climbing, to stand at the top of the pyramid.

To possess a fortune that others would always look up to.

From that perspective, marrying Sean Harrison was probably the best choice.

What’s more...

They grew up together, so that possibility should have always been there.

Rory Linden’s guess was correct. The call Sean Harrison took wasn’t from Nadia Willow.

It was from Nadia’s mother, Daniella Sullivan.

She said that when she received a call from Nadia twenty minutes ago, Nadia had been uncharacteristically concerned about her health, asking if she’d had her annual check-up this year.

Daniella Sullivan didn’t think much of it at the time, but when she realized something was off and called Nadia back, no one answered.

She lived far away and was on her way over.

She also hoped Sean Harrison would go downstairs and check on the situation.

Sean Harrison immediately said he would have property management help check.

Daniella Sullivan was genuinely afraid something had happened to Nadia.

She couldn’t possibly give the property management staff the code to Nadia’s electronic lock, so she only hoped Sean Harrison would go down and check in person.

Sean Harrison frowned. "Fine. When you get here, I’ll call the police, and then I’ll enter Miss Willow’s home with property management."

Daniella Sullivan was a little angry. "Then go ahead and call the police! If anything happens to Nadia, I’ll never let you hear the end of it!"

"Miss Willow is an adult. If anything happens to her, it’s not my fault."

After saying that, Sean Harrison hung up the phone.

He still called the police.

Throughout the whole process, Rory Linden sat on the other side of the bed, not disturbing him.

After calling the police, Sean Harrison came in from the balcony and briefly explained to Rory Linden what had just happened.

"Then you should go check on her," Rory Linden said, then paused and asked, "Do you need me to go with you?"

Sean Harrison glanced at the clock on the wall.

It was almost twelve o’clock.

"You get some rest. I’ll go and be right back."

"Okay, I’ll go to sleep then."

Rory Linden didn’t insist.

’It’s probably for the best that I don’t get involved in this.’

Sean Harrison waited on the first floor for Daniella Sullivan and the police before they all went upstairs together.

Before they had even finished a full sweep of the apartment, Daniella Sullivan received a call from Nadia Willow.

Nadia Willow said she had gone to the rooftop garden to rest for a while and had fallen asleep without realizing it.

Daniella Sullivan was about to go up to the roof to find Nadia, but Sean Harrison spoke first. "Since she’s been found, I’m going home."

The police and property management left first.

Daniella Sullivan and Sean Harrison stood together in the elevator lobby.

She couldn’t help but ask, "Sean, why are you so heartless toward Nadia? You grew up together, didn’t you? Shouldn’t you two have the best relationship?"

Sean Harrison had just taken out his phone to check the time, but upon hearing this, he looked at Daniella Sullivan.

"When was I ever friends with Miss Willow?"

"You weren’t? Didn’t Nadia help you a lot when you were in college?"

Daniella Sullivan didn’t know much about what went on between Nadia Willow and Sean Harrison.

She only knew that they had attended the same university.

Although Nadia Willow was two years older than Sean Harrison, they went to the same university, and it seemed like their relationship was quite good.

Sean Harrison put his phone away and said, "If someone can’t help me through the hard times, I don’t need them around for the good times."

"You... Are you saying that because Nadia didn’t speak up for you back when your mother went to the orphanage to adopt a child?"

Daniella Sullivan defended Nadia. "She was young then, too. She didn’t know any better."

The elevator arrived.

The two of them got in together.

There were four elevators in this building.

Only this one went to the rooftop garden.

They stood together in the elevator.

Once the elevator doors closed, Sean Harrison finally spoke. "Auntie Sullivan, that’s not what I was talking about. And I can tell you directly."

"What?"

"Miss Willow has something on me that I don’t want anyone else to see. If she wants, I’m willing to go to jail, to admit I have mental problems and receive treatment, even give up everything I have now. But I could never develop a shred of affection for her, let alone marry her."

The man spoke slowly, word by word.

Each one landed with force.

She had absolutely no idea what kind of secret Nadia held over Sean Harrison.

And she certainly didn’t know their relationship was actually this bad.

She had assumed that since they were childhood sweethearts, their relationship couldn’t possibly be bad.

Plus, the fact that the girlfriend Sean Harrison found looked so much like her daughter could also be seen as proof of his feelings for Nadia.

The elevator reached the 47th floor.

Sean Harrison got out of the elevator.

Daniella Sullivan found Nadia Willow in the rooftop garden.

She relayed what Sean Harrison had just said, word for word, and asked her, "You two grew up together. How could your relationship be so bad?"

Nadia Willow sat on a bench in the rooftop garden, gazing at the winter night through the transparent roof.

She spoke slowly, "I guess it’s because my friends and I were the ones who started bullying him in middle school."