"The boy has already told Grandma about what happened back in the day, and now that things have come to this point with you, it's his own damn fault, and Grandma won't make excuses for him. But Elly, believe me, Adam truly likes you a lot. It's precisely because he cared too much about you that he lost his ability to judge rationally when faced with such a situation."
"After that misunderstanding years ago, if he had really been able to let you go, then he wouldn't have agreed to the marriage alliance when you approached him later, would he?"
"Rather than saying he's holding onto the past misunderstanding, it's more accurate to say that he cannot get past it himself. Grandma knows his temperament too well. Torturing you is torturing himself as well."
Elly Campbell listened quietly throughout, without responding to the Old Lady's words.
Today, with both the Old Master and Lady Jones coming to speak with her at length, she understood perfectly what they were implying.
