A Love Trap

No matter what the senior staff had to say, Johnny refused to enter that office again.

'They are talking complete nonsense! And I don't want to take the risk of bothering Mr. Lu.

I just walked out of that scary office and I don't have courage to enter it again so soon!' thought Johnny.

…

Ashley held up the jade pendant and examined it. She had taken care of this pendant for more than ten years. But she hadn't expected to be told that this wasn't what she thought it was.

The fake one looked so similar to the original that she wouldn't have realized it if Peggy hadn't told her the truth.

And now Peggy had used the original one to threaten Ashley and wrangle what she wanted out of her.

Ashley somehow knew that the jade pendant was a crucial clue towards finding her real family. And to see that Peggy had the one thing that was bound to shed light on her family irritated her to no end.

She wanted to find her real family and this jade pendant might be crucial.

…

"What happened to you? Why are you so absent-minded? And what's this? Why have you taken off your pendant? I told you to keep it on!" Ellie rattled off a series of curious, well-intentioned questions when she saw Ashley sitting on the sofa and gazing at the jade pendant absent-mindedly.

"Nothing has happened," Ashley said, putting the pendant back on and smiling at Ellie. "I was just checking if it would help me remember anything about the past." Ashley put away the jade pendant and smiled at Ellie.

She didn't want to tell Ellie what Peggy said to her that morning because she knew Ellie. And Ellie was the kind of girl who would lose sleep over anything that was troubling Ashley.

you recollected anything from

isn't easy. Moreover, I was just a little child at that

disappointed. What if your memory returns one day? Maybe your family is also making every effort to look for you. So

her heart. Ellie's words were like a balm to her

way," Ellie said, diverting the topic, "I found some shops on the Internet this morning. How about we go visit

we should stop spending our time doing something like this. It all looks to be in vain. We should rather go out and look for other

grown up watching Lena and knew her well. Lena always got everything she wanted, by hook or

them, there was no way they would

hugging a bolster and launching herself across the

sorry for troubling you." Lena had always targeted Ashley, looking to cause her trouble at every turn. And by getting involved in the matter, Ellie had placed herself in the line of

Ashley and patted her head. "Don't talk like that. We're supposed to be best friends. And the next time you

said, "Okay. I won't apologize." As she pulled away, Ashley paused, looking at Ellie. "You really are my best friend,

"Of course!"

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her. She glared at her mother as she sat up on the sofa. "Mother, you know I love this pendant

pendant, almost loved it at first sight. She then asked Peggy and Spencer for help and grabbed the jade pendant

interest in it and it got lost in

stuff when she was cleaning up her bedroom. Seeing that Lena wasn't at home, Terri had handed it to Peggy. Now, years later, she was unwilling to return it to Ashley even though she knew she

just a little jade pendant. When you marry Raymond, the heir of the Luo Group, you can buy as many jade pendants as you want. Why do you want this one so

had, she would have taken care of it and not left it unused and unloved. Besides, Lena liked to compare herself with Ashley and tell herself that she

ignored these things. She thought them as children's games and

the Mu family. And she had always felt that it was Ashley's honor that Lena liked to compare

curled with disdain at Peggy's words. "I'd rather throw the pendant in