Pei Ge, I… can give you time."
He continued to stare at her nape. This was his bottom line.
What the man and the woman, who had her head lowered, did not realize was that there was gentleness and helplessness in his eyes.
He himself did not know why he was so adamant on them living together.
What he had intended to say just then was: I won't force you to stay with me anymore if you really don't want to. Just treat my earlier words as though I never said them.
However, just when he moved to speak, he realized that he could not utter those words about letting her live separately from him, which should have been easy to say.
Hence, after that realization, what he said, instead, was being able to give her time.
"Okay."
As he fell into a deep thought of why he had changed his words, he heard her speak.
She lifted her head to look at him again, her expression already schooled back to her calmness.
