Mnie did not like what she heard and frowned as she nced at Dory.


    Dory did not notice it, but she did meet with Eugene’s dark stare.


    Mnie pressed her lips and turned to leave. Dory seemed quite close to Eugene when they were


    speaking to each other. Even Vi had never spoken that way to him.


    gugene had dored on Vi in the beginning and got engaged to Evelyn afte


    indulging in Dory’s mannerisms.


    That was how he always was.


    that. Now, he was


    Dory looked at Mnie as she walked away. Mnie’s long light–colored dress entuated her body


    perfectly. Dory could not help whistling. “Her body is so hot. A man should put a ring on her finger right


    new.”


    The moment she said this, she sensed a chilling look being shot at her from the side. Eugene was


    shooting frosty daggers at her with his eyes.


    He growled. “Is this how your family teaches you manners?”


    Dory managed to get Mnie’s number in the end. She greeted Mnie enthusiastically with a


    message but Mnie gave her an indifferent reply.


    Mnie received a message from Yana next. Yana had contacted her to gossip and asked if Mnie? 2024 N?v/el/Dram/a.Org.


    was in Nama


    She replied to Yana with a “yes“, and Yana replied immediately: [That exins a lot. I was wondering


    why Dory wanted to get your contact information from me.


    [It would’ve slipped my mind if she hadn’t reached out to me. I wanted to tell you that Vi is married.]


    Yana told her that Vi got marriedst year to a divorced cripple in his 40s.


    She heard that it took Vi less than half a month to marry him. He was a known alcoholic, and that


    was the reason he got divorced from his first wife. He did not have a job and relied on his mother, who


    owned a tailor shop, to provide for the family.


    A LeapCo employee stayed around the area. When she went to pick up her clothes from the shop, she


    saw Vi being yelled at by her mother–inw. Vi looked quite pitiful then.


    Yana’s words reminded Mnie of what Matthew said before about giving her a reward.


    What sort of reward was this?


    Mnie did not ask Matthew about this. Her anger at Vi had disappeared following Merry’s birth.


    She believed that Vi would receive her karma sooner orter.


    It seemed like everyone had expected Mnie and Xander to be a couple. Yvonne did not even


    hold back when joking about this. She would always ask Mnie when she was nning to make it


    official with Xander.


    Mnie did not reply. She was well aware of her rtionship with Xander. All that wascking between


    them was the right time.


    Yvonne encouraged her, saying, “You need to be in charge of your own happiness. Xander is a


    Capricorn who keeps things bottled inside him. He does that better than anyone I know. If you have any


    feelings for him, you need to be the one who takes action. Besides, everyone can tell that he likes you.”


    Mnie had never confessed to anyone before. Even when she was with Eugene, they got together


    naturally.


    Yvonne added that Xander’s birthday was just around the corner and Mnie should give him a


    surprise.


    Mnie thought about this for a long time. She ended up nning a surprise for Xander because


    Yvonne and Reny had been taking turns brainwashing her into doing something.


    She figured that this could be considered a nice thing to do as a friend even if she was not nning on


    using the opportunity to confess her feelings.


    However, none of them expected Xander to suddenly receive a call from overseas a day before his


    birthday. His mother’s condition had worsened.


    Mnie held the phone in her hand as she stared at the carefully decorated room. Sheforted him,


    sayin, “Don’t worry. Your mother will be fine.”


    She was about to ask him when he woulde back but decided not to after some thought.