“I think Seth’s alright. And I can see that he really likes you.”

After a while, Linda’s voice came from the dark weakly. “Cordelia, let’s not talk about him, okay?”

“I don’t understand.” Cordelia turned around and propped herself up to look at Linda. “You both match each other in every aspect! Seth’s seriously courting you too. Why aren’t you giving him a chance?”

“I… I don’t think I’m a good match for him.”

“You’ll only know if you give it a try, right?”

“No need to try it out. There’s no way!”

Linda’s tone was anxious, as if she was troubled.

There was a long pause before Cordelia asked softly, “Linda, is there… something I don’t know about?”

Silence followed her question. She chuckled and lay back down. “It’s okay. You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to. Heh, it’s getting late. We should sleep!”

“Cordelia…”

“Hmm?”

Linda bit her lips and said with much difficulty, “I… had someone memorable in the past.”

Cordelia paused. It felt like something was stuck in her throat as she wanted to say something but could not.

“That person’s like a childhood friend,” Linda said slowly. “We grew up together. He lived just next door. Like all the other boys, he liked bullying me since we were young, and I hated him at first… But the more things were like that, the closer we grew. When we were 18, we…”

“What happened?”

“We separated and never met again.”

Cordelia did not expect an ending like this. She wanted to ask why. Why had they separated, and why had they never met again? However, she heard Linda’s suppressed sobs in the dark.

With the moonlight that spilled in, she saw Linda’s jerking shoulders. Cordelia was shocked. From the first day she knew Linda, she had never seen the latter cry like this.

The reason they separated… Was it life and death?

“Linda…” Cordelia rested a hand on Linda’s shoulder, wanting to console her.

The group sat around the round table. The dishes were aromatic and looked exquisite. Every dish was placed in delicate porcelain, looking incredibly extravagant.

Seth could care less if the food was drugged. He impatiently helped himself with the dishes.

scared of the restaurant pulling your bank password

in his mouth. “It’s not like I have much in my account. Probably can’t even

Stafford’s a

not bad either!” Seth chuckled. “You ate more

hit his head with her

and Marcus grinned at each other lovingly as they watched their friends

served.” The manager led the servers to serve some

only available in the river of Splendor Mountain. Its meat is fresh and sweet, buttery but not overwhelming.

four of them took

into the room. The fish was braised well with

eye to Marcus out

sober and sane, she would make Cordelia and Carter fish. When it was served, she would give the eyes to her and Carter. Her mother said that fish eyes were good for one’s eyes and

part should

she

her husband like precious fish eyes. What

need to be jealous!” Seth teased her. “You have a fish too!

them being

blushed and

having never felt as triumphant

fish eyes in his

“You—”

He looked at her gently.

lowered, but a smile bloomed from the corner of

had thought that she would rest in the room with

spending time alone. Even if they got along well, what if they impulsively entered the same room?

lips twitched. She asked Marcus to go ahead while she stayed back

only then Linda heaved a sigh of relief

teased her. “Dr. Stafford’s a gentleman.

are you talking about?” Linda giggled. “I just didn’t want to come back to my room alone and asked you to keep me company. But to avoid Marcus resenting

into the bed pulling the sheets away. “Let’s have a sleepover

What should I do if your husband

while Linda was only saying so for the sake of it as she snuck into the bed

girls had gone back to their carefree school days. Back then, they shared the same dorm. Not only did they have endless classes, but they also had endless things to

they would just like now—Linda “ambushed” Cordelia when the

before she smacked the hand that groped her, causing Linda to

messed with each other, and it only ended when Cordelia mercilessly

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