“Cordelia, are you done? Can we buy this painting?”

Xyla walked over with a colorful chiffon scarf, showing it to her daughter with a beam.

“I bought this just now. Look at the embroidery. Nice, right? This embroidery is rarely found in Centrolis. Only South—”

Before she finished her sentence, the air went silent like it was warped into a vacuum.

Janine stared at Xyla, and Xyla stared back at her. Both of them looked at each other for some time, eyes widened, and calling each other’s name almost in unison.

“Xyla?”

“You… Janine?”

Both women shared shock, surprise, and ever-changing emotions in their expressions and gazes.

Cordelia was dumbfounded. Others would have thought they were the gallery’s wax figures looking at their frozen states from afar!

“Mom, Madam, you… know each other?”

Xyla snapped back to reality. With a grimace, she grabbed Cordelia and muttered, “Seen a ghost in broad daylight. Come on, let’s go… Let’s hurry home…”

“Xyla Irwin!” Janine called for her and stepped in front of her. “You didn’t see a ghost! You’re just too ashamed to see me, huh?”

“You…” Xyla’s finger shook. “Stop making things up! Why am I ashamed to see you?”

scoffed and crossed her arms. “I was right about everything back then. What shame do you have when you put yourself into

“Shut up!”

Xyla growled, the whole gallery

so I quite wish to fulfill this wish for her.

Young girls who were graceful and composed like her seemed to be

Nelly. She had picked her as her future daughter-in-law in the past because she found their families to be on equal footing. It might

just that Janine later realized that the Tanner heiress did not have the grace and composure of an heiress, nor did she have the ability and skills to run the family business at all! Instead, she had traveled to Chaiseland countless times in a year to get close to Janine or shop till

was extremely

hated beauties without a brain. Moreover,

pulling

I take a

snapped back to

“Thank you!”

chat with the girl. “Do you know what

blurted, but she

of strange. It

get it.” She smiled. “This

imagination of the artist.” Janine looked at her. “This is a firefly species only available in Sabe

“What?” Cordelia was surprised.

a low voice, “I’ve seen them in a private forest

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