Sweet Twins

"Don't bother with it. If you really liked it, we can come back tomorrow." Charles knew nothing about packing unfinished food because he never did it before. But it didn't mean that he liked wasting food.

If he treated the woman he loved to a meal, he'd feel uncomfortable if he still had to pack unfinished food.

"But that's worth 30,000," Nancy said feeling sorry for the unfinished food.

"Well, it's just 30,000. Let's go," Charles said gently with a smile as he held her hand.

"You really are a child from a rich family so you've never developed the proper concept of valuing money. If you have experienced being poor, you'd understand what I mean and you wouldn't say that," Nancy explained with a hint of self-pity.

Her eyes suddenly looked sad as if she remembered a painful time in her life. If he only knew that she was in so much despair before. When she badly needed money to get treatment, but no help was in sight. If only he experienced the same thing as she did, would he still be willing to spend thirty thousand for a meal?

"So, you've experienced being poor before? Tell me about it, then," Charles said gently. He truly wanted to know more about her, but he also didn't want to make her feel pressured to reveal her past to him.

And when he saw a bitter smile on her lips, he felt like it was what he expected to see.

"Well, let bygones be bygones."

But her words immediately quashed his curiosity, and he felt uncomfortable about it.

He decided to let it pass and thought for a while. He then turned to Nancy with a meaningful look in his eyes. "Nancy, I know your mother is in the sanatorium. Since we have nothing to do this afternoon, we can go and visit her together this afternoon instead. What do you think?"

Since she got back, she'd become so busy with work and her children patients that she rarely had the time to visit her mother. "I'd like that. Thank you," she replied gently to Charles as she nodded.

"It's nothing," Charles replied back with a smile.

They drove out and eventually arrived at the sanatorium.

It was an old and poorly-maintained sanatorium. The paint was chipping off the walls and dried up vines were scattered here and there.

"This place... ...doesn't look too good," Charles commented as he looked around the sanatorium grounds and the building.

"You're right. I'm planning to move mom to a better sanatorium. I haven't set anything up yet but Doris and I are already looking for one."

in this sanatorium for ten years. And since Nancy now

investing in hospitals, he had been engaged

Charles, but..." Nancy started to say while she blushed, but Charles

really not a big deal," Charles said with

and made a welcoming gesture. He smiled and

was anything difficult or dangerous that would

rely on him?' Nancy wondered, looking

around and stretched out his hand to Nancy as

see Nancy

to the adoring and envious stares of women. He never gave these stares much importance in the

well enough?" Charles

was flustered, but readily held

in his. A grip that felt reassuring

to him and he had a mysteriously

at flirting

arrived at the door of room number eight on the second floor. She suddenly had second thoughts of letting Charles into the room. She

hesitated but didn't

her hand and made her

express clearly, anyway,'

door with her hand in his and walked

with a smile. She was visibly surprised to see that Charles was there with Nancy.

something wrong?" Charles

Nothing coherent came out

often lately, and you must be tired taking care of my mother," Nancy said as she put some

to do this," the

it," Charles said

you very much!" The nurse took the money

hand in hand with a man, she immediately guessed that they must be in a relationship. When Jade remembered what happened to herself in the past, she began to worry that her

wanted to tell her

took her hand in hers. "Mother, I know what you want to ask. He is my friend. He's