Chapter 8 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Lu Mian paused with her lips pursed. The burger in her hand no longer smelled good.

She dropped a small portion of the leftover burger on her plate. She held a napkin between her fingers, stood up and smiled that dandy smile of hers. “Okay!”

Her cell phone vibrated as she was stepping out of the living room. She had received an expected email.

An invitation from the Su family?

Should I go…

While she stopped to consider, Fu Man had already caught up to her from behind. She felt guilty by Lu Mian’s sudden departure. She suppressed her frustration and asked cautiously, “Mianmian, where are you going now?”

“Central Street.”

“Good. I am taking Xinnuan to the mall to buy her gown; we can buy yours if you come too.”

She eyed Lu Mian’s old and somewhat short jeans, and admitted that she had failed as a mother.

Without waiting for Lu Mian to reply, Lu Xinnuan came running out too. “Mom, Sister, I finished eating. Let’s go now!”

At the central shopping street of Wu City.

The three women, two in front and one behind, entered a middle-end shopping mall.

Fu Man and Lu Xinnuan had their mother-daughter unique shopping habits. Lu Mian wasn’t used to it so she did not intend to participate and simply followed them slowly and leisurely. She wasn’t accompanying them; she just suddenly remembered that she wanted to buy something.

In front of the jewelry counter on the first floor, she stopped. A hair accessory had caught her attention.

A simple willow-leaf hair clip, with three blue diamonds in the center, surrounded by fine and exquisite crushed diamonds.

There was a price tag underneath the hair clip, 3 followed by 5 zeros.

300,000.

The lady at the counter smiled professionally. “Miss, please…”

She didn’t know when Lu Xinnuan and Fu Man had backtracked to her. They didn’t let her finish talking. After saying ‘sorry’ several times, all three of them retreated from the counter for more than 10 meters.

Fu Man sounded helpless as she pulled Lu Mian with her.