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.

won’t do. Aren’t you upset that you’ve written all these,

You? Help me send my

And I’ll make sure that he responds, I promise.” Xenia

after that and let Xenia take the letters

that she was not brave enough to do it, and Xenia’s

there was a smidgen of hope that she might actually

Sasha that there was no reply

faint smile as a response, saying nothing

down the road, Sasha would cut down on the letter-writing as she found interest in writing stories. She started pouring

you so good at everything? Can I see

“Sure.”

She never second-guessed Xenia as she was family

made a copy of everything she wrote and

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

from the Blackwood family have to help the Wand family with their debt? Mum, Dad, are

and uncle! They took care of you

would treat me like their own daughter. But it turns out, whatever Sasha had, I

Her parents were speechless.

of the family crisis, Sasha’s father was jailed, and her mother fell ill. When she went to look for her uncle, she overheard everything Xenia

mistreat her