If Albert knew about the choice Fred had made, he would surely have felt very gratified.
Love was supposed to be mutual. One-sided devotion would only leave someone covered in wounds.
That was why simps were doomed to meet a bad end.
However, perhaps stirred by this incident, Fred poured more of his energy into his work and chose to let his relationship with Angelina take its natural course.
As Albert put it, if the two of them truly wanted to be together, they would eventually end up together.
Fred thought that made perfect sense too.
Fred's change was not especially obvious, but the girls in love still noticed it.
Everyone was surprised that there seemed to be a problem in Fred and Angelina's relationship, but it was their private affair, so no one asked further.
Angelina naturally noticed the change in Fred as well.
Ever since their long talk that night, Fred had never been as enthusiastic as before. Most of the time, he was busy with his own affairs and no longer deliberately made time to be with her every day. It felt as though their relationship had returned to the friendship it had once been.
Fred's indifference chilled Angelina to the bone, but she could not really complain, because Fred had said that he intended to earn more Galleons over the next few years to prepare for the future.
But was it truly their future? More accurately, Fred was preparing for himself and his future wife.
As for whether Fred's wife would be Angelina?
That was probably still uncertain.
At the very least, after Fred's attitude toward her changed, Angelina no longer had any confidence in it.
Though neither of them said it outright, there really was a problem with their fragile relationship. At least, that was