"Do you think I’m joking?" He looked up, his black eyes fixed steadily on her.

She suddenly froze, "But Ivy is very healthy now, even if... even if your genetic illness is hereditary, she didn’t inherit it."

"Is that so?" He chuckled softly, with a hint of self-mockery in his smile, "Well, if one day you find out that Ivy did inherit my illness, will you... hate me?"

Mabel Quinn was momentarily stunned, just feeling that at this moment Kyle Kinston seemed to be filled with an indescribable sadness and loneliness. After pondering for a moment, she said, "No, I would just find a way to try my best to cure her."

Cure... But does she know that to cure it means searching for a person amidst the sea of people, it took him 30 years to find her, and most of the Kinston Family members, spend their entire lives unable to find their destiny’s reliance, resolving things in pain on their own.

"Okay, can you let go of me now?" Mabel Quinn said.

But Kyle Kinston’s hand still encircled her waist, and he spoke quietly, "In this lifetime... can you really not forgive me? Even if I explain the reason why I wanted you to abort the child, can you still not forgive me?"

Mabel Quinn’s body stiffened, and all she could hear was Kyle Kinston’s voice continuing quietly, "I don’t know what means I used back then, maybe very determined, maybe very intense, maybe it broke your heart, which led to your constant rejection of me now, but... I just didn’t want my bloodline, this kind of pain, to show up in the next generation, wanted it to end with my generation, or maybe..."

His body trembled slightly, as if it took great courage to speak these words, "I... have no confidence that I can love a child, maybe because I don’t know how to view a child with my own bloodline... even before I saw Ivy, I never thought I would interact with a child this way. Because when I was little... no one ever interacted with me like this, so I... never thought children were cute or interesting creatures, I just felt... children are just annoying..."

These words, for him to say them, it’s like exposing his unbearable childhood experiences to her once again.

But now, he spoke to her like this, which undoubtedly was exposing his inner self.

Even though he thought of treating her as his destiny’s reliance from now on, just needing her to alleviate his pain, but today, when the startled horse was truly about to crash into her, he still panicked, even without thinking much, he placed part of his body between her and the horse, trying to lessen the impact she might suffer.

At that moment, all his thoughts were just about protecting her! No matter what, he must protect her.

Unwilling to let her suffer even the slightest injury... even willing to use his life to protect her. Can he really just see her as "Antidote"? Or is she someone he cannot lose in his lifetime?

Mabel Quinn listened to Kyle Kinston’s words, thinking about the ordeal he suffered during his childhood. Though she had never seen it with her own eyes, the fragmented knowledge she possessed was enough to piece together a rough picture of his childhood.