Evan was pleased that Maya was more understanding and empathetic for a kid of her age.

But he looked at her lovingly and said, “It’s okay, Maya. You can get whatever you like.”

“Yeah, Maya, Uncle Davin owns this mall, so feel free to choose anything you like,” Juan added.

Maya was surprised and exclaimed, “Wow, Uncle Davin must be really rich then!”

Kyle scoffed and said, “Well, Uncle Davin is the poorest in the Seet family. Our Daddy’s the richest man in the family!”

Maya listened to him and nodded as if she could comprehend what Kyle was saying. All she knew was that Daddy sounded really wealthy.

She rolled her eyes around and finally said, “Alright then! I’ll buy three pretty clothes today!” Maya turned towards Nina and gestured a “three” with her cute little fingers as smiled at her happily.

“Just three?” Nina asked with an unimpressed face.

They heard the crowd buzzing and mumbling just as they arrived at the women’s section.

The children hastened their little steps to see what was going on. Evan and Nicole quickly followed behind.

As they were approaching the crowd, a sarcastic voice rang in their ears.

“Oh my gosh, look at this girl. She thinks she can be a princess by wearing all these classy clothes. She’s delusional!” someone from the crowd commented.

ugly duckling trying to act like

she dreams of marrying a prince! More like

changing that face of hers instead of buying clothes,”

Nina shifted their gaze to the subject of those unabashed

crowd stood a plump and short woman, and she had

was true that her beauty was

she came to

to avoid eye contact with anyone as she fidgeted away nervously. It was conspicuous that she was trying her best to hold in her tears—as if she

she just leave?” Maya asked, looking

she should run away,” Nina

and

only laugh at

Daddy. She must be really sad because everyone is making fun of her,” Maya

the right to buy

Nina

do anything wrong, to begin with. On the contrary, it’s those people who jeered at her, those people who judged her based on her appearance are the ones at fault. They shouldn’t walk all over her and treat her like she’s less of a human. They are the

words

her teacher taught her

We understood. We won’t laugh at people or judge them anymore,” the

both are good kids,” Evan assured them, giving each of them a pat on

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