Chapter: 1950

Despite the pain her rejection caused him, he couldn't bear to give up on her. “Rosa, I need to know."

"Does it matter that much to you?" Rosa's voice trembled, betraying her own emotions.

“Yes, it's important," Carson asserted firmly. “Rosa, we've been apart for four years. Indeed, four years is a significant span of time. I still don't understand what happened back then. You claim you don't love me, yet how do you explain this portrait? If you truly have no feelings for me, why avoid my gaze and evade my questions?

Are you intentionally being cruel?"

Rosa ceased her struggle, prompting Carson to release his hold. She withdrew her hand and replied, "It's all in the past."