423 Past Reunion (2/2)

Xiu could only stare at her falling tears in bitterness as she replied, 'The one you're begging for isn't mine though.' Liu Nuan looked up at her face. 'He already left me for you.'

'What?'

'Don't act so surprised. Before the young lady of the Liu family, how could a stupid lovesick person like me stand a chance?' Xiu took a pause to hold back her tears. She didn't want to cry before this woman. She didn't want to be the weak one before this woman. 'You can go back now. I don't think I have anything else to give you.']

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Coming back to the present, Xiu stared at Liu Nuan's face and wanted to blench at the hypocrisy of this woman. That innocent face actually fooled her once but this time around it wasn't enough. Especially because Xiu wanted to keep her distance from Liu Nuan. After all, now she wasn't Chen Xiu!

”I guess, you really like that old friend.” Her voice was strained and had a sarcastic undertone which Liu Nuan couldn't catch.

Liu Nuan's eyes fell down as she whispered, ”Or maybe I hated her the most.”

”Sister-in-law, what are you doing here? I told you to wait at the food court.” Just as Xiu saw another familiar face entering the store calling out Liu Nuan, she cursed her luck. What was it? Blast from the past or something?!

”Qiuqiu, I saw Auntie Francesca that's why I came here,” answered Liu Nuan to the exuberant girl before her.

”Excuse me,” saying that Xiu turned to join Francesca. She didn't want to hear the conversation between her ex-boyfriend's wife and sister. It wasn't that she didn't hear Liu Nuan's last sentence, she pretended like she didn't. Because it was no secret to her that Liu Nuan hated her the most.

”Mom, let me change, and then let's go to another place,” Xiu suggested to Francesca as soon as she came up to her.

”Why? You don't like this dress?”

”I love it but I'm hungry now,” Xiu half-lied. She just wanted to get out of here now. Since it seemed like a reunion of her past, she didn't want that ex-boyfriend to pop up from somewhere as well. She might really lose it otherwise and murder one of those people.

”Okay,” Francesca didn't question Xiu's decision at all. She just agreed. The only reason she was so excited about shopping today was because she had someone's company and that company was none other than her daughter. Otherwise, Francesca as a working woman had rare chances to find time for herself how will she find time for hobbies like shopping?

Just when both of them were about to leave the store, Xiu turned once again to look in Liu Nuan's direction but her eyes weren't on Liu Nuan. She was looking at her ex's sister, Zhou Liqiu. That vibrant and buoyant girl whom she once considered as her own sister.

She could only sigh at her poor eyesight for not being able to recognize anyone's real face.