Ryan's face immediately turned pale for a moment and a sense of anger even flashed by. Immediately after that, he covered it up and he softened his tone as much as he could as he said, "Ruth, knock it off!"

"I'm being serious!" Ruth said calmly. She looked at everyone present and smiled sadly. After that, she took a deep breath. "Ryan, I know that other than you, all of my friends here today, including Sabrina and Yvonne, whom I've treated as my family, would probably persuade me to go back wit