Chapter 30 What Are You Looking At?

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Donald and Hecate arrived home one after the other. They were aware that Angela was going to cook medicinal food, but since she didn’t want to elaborate, they didn’t inquire further and quickly changed the subject.

Noticing that Emilia didn’t bring up the matter again, Angela felt relieved and somewhat surprised.

In her memory, Emilia was a person who was petty and mean.

When she was ten years old, she came to Donald’s house to play with her cousin Queenie. Queenie gave her half of an apple to share, but when she turned around, she saw Emilia, whom she had just met, frowning and staring at her.

Later, she heard from the neighbors‘ gossip about Grandma’s opinion of her-

“An unwanted child with no manners, just coming to her daughter’s house to freeload. She’s nothing but a glutton who gets greedy at the sight of an apple.”

The adults openly mocked her, traumatizing Angela because she was just a child.

Emilia returned to her hometown shortly after, and Angela

yet, so she had to stay at Donald’s house for the time being. She didn’t want any conflicts with Grandma that would create an uncomfortable atmosphere at home. As long as Emilia didn’t cause trouble,

for a while, she went to the market and selected a plump and delicious sea bass. She asked the vendor to clean it

plastic jar where she had stored the dried lilies yesterday, she was taken aback. She didn’t know if it was her imagination, but she felt that there were fewer dried lilies in

she opened the box of dried cinnamon–vine and the box of wolfberries, she realized something was amiss. Each of them had less. She did mention to her family that she could use these ingredients for cooking… but the meals they made last night and this morning

now she was the only one at home. Donald and Hecate had already gone to work, and Emilia had gone to the park to exercise

the kitchen, a steaming bowl of sea bass soup with lilies and cinnamon–vine was ready. Angela didn’t know how much food Jonathan could eat, so she tried her best to

had already asked for Jonathan’s address. It turned out to be in a residential area near the

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arriving. Angela realized belatedly that Jonathan’s place was actually very close to her grandmother’s house, just around the corner. Behind her grandmother’s house was a villa area guarded

a decade

with blue skies and white clouds. The villa area was filled with blooming flowers, and sparrows flew by from

and pointed to

exterior design of the villa; even the small garden outside was bare. Compared to the lush greenery along the way. this

Jonathan’s

the door and greeted her with a smile, “Angela, you’re early. Master Jonathan is still in

following him. Even though she didn’t intend to explore, she couldn’t help but be taken aback by the

Jonathan lived alone, but the house was excessively monotonous. Every empty space was devoid of any decoration, and even the dining

of her footsteps as she walked through the empty villa. It was beyond minimalistic. If someone didn’t know any better, they would assume

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