The Love that Never Really Dies

Sasha had an elaborate dream.

In it, she was back in her teens, her family was prominent, and her parents were still alive. She was treated like a princess every day, living her life happily.

Then, one day, her mother brought her cousin over. “Sasha, your uncle has fallen ill, so your cousin, Xenia, is staying with us. Take good care of her, okay?”

“Okay.”

Sasha took the cousin who was two years older by the hand, delighted to have her there.

After that, Xenia settled in and did everything with Sasha. She heard that the school Sasha went to was great. So Sasha’s father enrolled her when she made her intentions clear on attending the same school.

From then onward, the two were inseparable.

“Sasha, what are you doing? Why aren’t you doing your homework?”

“I’m writing a letter. He’s overseas. I want to send him a letter every day.” Sasha was treating it very seriously, so Xenia went ahead and sat beside her.

She picked up the letter that Sasha wrote and flipped through. “He’s been gone for so long and you’ve sent him so many. Has he ever written a reply?”

Sasha’s expression instantly dulled. “No.”

She knew it was not going to happen because she never actually sent those letters out.

Xenia told her, “This won’t do. Aren’t you upset that you’ve written all these, but he never responded? Right, let me do help you send them

Help me send my

And I’ll make sure that he

that and let Xenia take

to do it, and Xenia’s intervention gave her an excuse to

hope that she might actually get a

Xenia took the letters, things remained the same. Every time Xenia went back, she would tell Sasha that there

would always put up a faint smile as a response,

on the letter-writing as she found interest in writing stories.

are you so good at everything? Can I see what you wrote?”

“Sure.”

the time. She never second-guessed Xenia as she was

it, she immediately made a copy of everything she

got into high school and the Wand family’s company was facing a huge

with their debt? Mum, Dad, are you stupid? What have they ever

what are you saying? They are your aunt and

told you that they would treat me like their own daughter. But it turns out, whatever Sasha had, I could never get. I

Her parents were speechless.

mother fell ill. When she went to look for her uncle,

we mistreat her