Bella Woods was shocked by her own guess.
To her, Third Young Master Marshall was Oliver Hughes' uncle, so he would naturally side with Oliver.
But what he just said, as Bella understood it, was that he was giving her a chance to report Oliver, and he would stand up for her.
"You are quite a straightforward child." Ashton Marshall shook his head slightly, sipping his tea.
"Third Young Master also said, I'm just a child. In front of someone like you, I'm not qualified to guess, nor is there a need to play tricks. It's better to ask directly when I don't understand."
Although Bella was already eighteen, in terms of both age and physicality, she was no longer a child.
But in front of someone like Ashton Marshall, a successful man, she indeed felt like a naive little girl.
Since she was a child, there was no need to guess the thoughts of adults. Be direct, and a wrong statement would be dismissed as 'childish words without harm.'
