The sound of Toby’s footsteps sounded as if he was stepping on Tina’s contracting heart, filling it with fear and panicking her. At the same time, she subconsciously stepped back, her lips trembling in silence.

Seeing her reaction, Toby couldn’t help but feel disgusted with it. “What’s wrong? The cat got your tongue? Let me answer the question for you. That’s because you never lived in Marina City; you never kept a pet dog, and neither did you ever have a stepmother and sister. So, tell me now. Do you still insist that you are Maple?”

At that moment, a loud thump was heard when Tina collapsed onto the ground with a blank gaze on her face. In the meantime, Toby only fixed his eyes on her, immediately knowing what her gesture meant because she could no longer cover up her wrongdoings.

“Tina!” Julia quickly came closer to her daughter and hugged her, placing her hands on her shoulders. “Are you alright, Tina?”

 

Nevertheless, Tina only puckered her lips, wanting to say something, only to swallow her own words eventually. Feeling helpless and panicked, Julia turned to Toby and asked, “What was it that you were telling Tina, Toby? What’s all that about posing as Sonia and Maple? I don’t understand a single thing about that matter at all.”

on Tina and replied to Julia, saying, “Your beloved daughter posed as the person whom I had always thought

love Tina now?” Julia

truly my pen pal, and the only reason Tina got to be with me was that she posed as her. Why else do

knew the two of them had never seen each other due to the inequality between their statuses, she quickly realized it was actually Toby who wasn’t aware at all

he fell in love with Tina at first sight. Furthermore, their young age served to convince Julia even more that both of

 

as Sonia, but I just couldn’t help it because—I love you!” Knowing she

as Sonia and took what was hers away from her because you loved me. Well, if everyone just takes anything they

heart when he saw her tears, but it wasn’t because he felt sympathetic toward her, but because the same thing that happened at the restaurant the last time was now happening again. Therefore, Toby made up his mind to bear with the pain he was going through on the inside because he was never going to tolerate Tina ever again. After that, he shook off her chin and took a handkerchief from his breast pocket to wipe his fingers with a disgusted look on his face. Upon wiping them,

cancel our engagement as soon as possible, Tina, but be warned that I will not go easy on you for the lie you fed us in the past six years, so you’d better pray hard from now on.” Toby finished

sweat, she couldn’t stop thinking about Toby’s intimidating gaze because he seemed as if he

Julia sympathetically let out

asked, “What should I do now, Mom?

“I didn’t know about this at all. After all, you did pose as Sonia, and you can’t really blame Toby for

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