He gave a soft smile, "There’s a line in the script that I think is quite good, but it seems my acting isn’t as great as everyone says, since at least you didn’t believe it, did you?"

"That’s because you tried it on the wrong person. You should look for those young girls who want a romance. As for me now, all I think about is how to raise Ivy well. There’s no room in my mind for romance," Mabel Quinn said, standing up and walking over to the computer desk to continue working on the script.

Over the years, she had been working under the name Anastasia in G City, continuing her old profession as a screenwriter, creating scripts.

Luck was on her side as well, as one of her scripts was shown to Atlas Shaw’s parents and then recommended to a famous director who turned it into a movie, which helped her gain fame.

However, because she was afraid of being exposed in front of the media, she never appeared in public and declined all interviews. In this circle, only a few people knew Magnolia was Alexander Quinn.

Fortunately, in the screenwriting industry, although it overlaps a bit with showbiz, writers seldom appear in front of the camera. To have more time to take care of her daughter, she didn’t take a regular office job as a screenwriter but became a freelance screenwriter, submitting her scripts to various film and TV companies.

Thanks to the success of Magnolia’s first script being made into a well-received film, her career development went smoothly with no setbacks. Gradually, after a few years, she no longer needed to submit scripts proactively; some directors and companies would reach out to invite her to write scripts. With the income from scripts over the years, in the high-priced housing market of G City, she was able to buy a 90-square-meter apartment in a mid-range apartment complex, giving her and her daughter a real home. Mabel Quinn was quite satisfied with this.

At this moment, Mabel Quinn focused her energy on work, and as for the uninvited Atlas Shaw in her home, she was indifferent to his presence in the room. After all these years, they were both used to each other’s presence.

Atlas Shaw lazily leaned on the table, resting his chin on one hand, half-lidded eyes watching the person absorbed in her work not far away.

At this moment, all her attention was on the computer screen, and he felt as if he was ignored like air.

It seemed that usually, he didn’t need to do anything special, and others would naturally focus their gaze on him. Those women were enamored with him as if he was something extraordinary. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

But she just saw him as an ordinary person. Even if she admired him, it was merely admiration for his acting skills, and when he tried to attract her attention, he found it wasn’t that easy.

Maybe it was because her heart was still with that person.

In the past, he wasn’t curious about the person she held in her heart.

But now, he was curious and wanted to know what kind of man that person was. Was he Ivy’s father? At that time, despite the difficulties, she insisted on having the child, but all these years, she never went back to that man.

Was that man really as she told Ivy, that he’d gone to heaven? Was he dead?

Or... is he still alive, and she just doesn’t want to see him?

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The next afternoon, Mabel Quinn went over to the City Prosecutor’s Office to review some case files.