Helena nodded gently and said softly, "I've heard Felix talk about this before. He would get very angry every
the mentioned it..." "Yes..." Charlie smiled indifferently. "He must be very angry. Otherwise, it would not be
possible for him to be so hostile to me." Helena looked at Charlie and asked, "Mr. Wade, how did you convince
yourself to accept the gifts from the Wade family, then?"
Charlie then said in a self-deprecating manner, "I was penniless at that time, and my life-saving benefactor
needed money to treat her illness. My wife was bullied in the family, and even if | had sof my own poor
boy's ambition, reality simply did not allowto refuse." After saying that, Charlie sighed slightly and said
emotionally, "At that time, | thought that even if it was not for myself, | would still have to accept the gifts from
the Wade family even if it's just for my lifesaving benefactor and my wife. So, | took over the company, and |
paid for my life-saving benefactor's medical bills with the ten billion dollars cash from the Wade family. After that,
| got to where | am today, step by step. The reason why I can get here today is all thanks to the Wade family's
initial gift."
Helena said seriously, "Mr. Wade, the Wade family
only gave you a company and ten billion dollars cash, but your current strength is already far beyond this asset.
So, | think that with or without this gift from the Wade family, you would have been able to succeed!"
"It really may not be that case." Charlie shook his head and said seriously, "Helena, destiny is sometimes very
magical and also subtle. Although | cannot see how destiny exists exactly, | think that there are thousands of
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtinextricable links between the fate of every person i n this world. It's like a domino effect that may affect the
situation as a whole."
As he spoke, Charlie said again, "Have you ever thought about how your usual trivial decisions might change
yourself or other people's lives subtly?"
Helena said blankly, "Mr. Wade, | don't know much about fate and destiny..."
Charlie said indifferently, "If you see a person crossing the road and getting hit and killed by a taxi, you can try
to push the life trajectory of the person who was hit and killed as well as the driver of the accident forward by
ten seconds, ten minutes, ten hours, or even ten days.
Helena asked, "Mr. Wade, what does it mean to push the life trajectory forward?"
Charlie said indifferently, "It's what the both of them were doing before the incident."
After a pause, Charlie added, "It's also possible that ten seconds before the accident, you happened to be
passing by the roadside, and the driver was distracted because he was attracted by your beauty, thus causing
the accident."
"It's also possible that you were
calling for a taxi with another person
ten minutes before, and that driver
chose to stop in front of you just because he saw that you were prettier, and after you got in, you made him
drive the car near the ptace of the accident, and that's why he had that car accident.
"There is also the possibility that ten hours ago, you uploaded a video of you on the short video platform, and
the pedestrian's friend saw this video and forwarded it to him. After he watched it, he thought that you were
beautiful and so, he kept thinking about you in his mind, and when he crossed the road, he was still thinking
about this short video of you. That's what caused him to be distracted and get hit by a car."
As Charlie spoke of this, he shrugged and said, "This is the destiny that | am talking about, but the actual
situation might be far more complicated compared to
what I've said. For instance, if | dint
not receive the money from the Wade family, | simply would not have been able to afford to buy a BMW car for
my wife. If did not buy that car for her, my father-in-law would not have hijacked that car. If he had not taken
that car, he would not have askedto be his driver and broughtto see an expensive antique vase..."
Speaking of this, Charlie shook his head and smiled. H e naturally omitted his incidental acquisition of the at
Vintage Deluxe as he continued, "Without this, you and | would not have had any encounters in this life, much
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmless be sitting together in the scar at this moment." In Charlie's opinion, destiny was indeed magical.
Everything was influencing one another in the dark, and no one knew how their own decisions would eventually
affect their own future.
Helena naturally did not understand the relationship behind Charlie's words.
She had a puzzled look on her face as she said, "Mr. Wade, | don't understand why you would want to associate
your destiny with a BMW car or even an antique vase..."
Charlie smiled faintly and said, "You only need to know that without that BMW and without that antique vase, it
would be enough for us to have never met each other in this life."
Helena was confused, but she looked at Charlie ashamedly and then mustered the courage to ask him, "Mr.
Wade, each of the three analogies that you made just now seemed to be because of my looks which triggered
that car accident... Do you really think that | am very beautiful?"
Charlie did not think much about it and said casually," You're very beautiful. No matter whether it's from the
Westerners' aesthetics or Easterners’ aesthetics, you should be considered very beautiful."
Helena turned sideways and stared at Charlie from a close distance. Her pair of big eyes were bright in the night
as she mustered up the courage to ask him softly, "Mr. Wade, if... if you really think that I'm beautiful, would you
be willing to... kiss me?"