Tomorrow?
The day wasn’t even over yet, but he was already talking about the next day’s lunch.
Well, it was just a lunchbox. She needed to make one for herself anyway. She could just increase the portion.
“Alright.”
The conversation ended there.
Millie frowned and looked at Aurelia. “Aurelia, you''ve been biting on that fork this whole time. Who is it that’s making you so
annoyed?”
Aurelia sighed, “Beef stew.”
Millie swallowed her mouthful of food before saying, “Is it your husband? You''re actually likening him to beef stew? That’s very...”
That was very unbing, wasn’t it?
But Millie didn’t dare to say it out loud. She pursed her lips and continued to eat her food. Then, she unintentionally saw Aurelia’s
lunchbox.
“Aurelia, didn’t his family give you any meat? Your meal is just full of greens. Eating all that might even make you turn green!”
Aurelia remained silent.
At that moment, Aurelia was thankful.
Fortunately, she had picked up the wrong lunchbox. Otherwise, if Leslie saw the lunchbox full of greens, his face would have
turned green too.
Seeing Aurelia’s silence, Millie thought that she had tacitly agreed and couldn''t help but sympathize with her.
She quickly gave Aurelia a couple of beef slices.
“Aurelia, have some meat.”
“Thanks.” Aurelia smiled.
Their conversation happened to be overheard by Kimberly, who was making coffee in the pantry.
Kimberly raised her coffee cup, and her lips curved up into a sly smile.
So, that was the case.
Aurelia always embarrassed her. She wanted to make Aurelia experience that embarrassment too!
After Aurelia finished eating, she checked up on her mother via video call with Karen. Then, sheid her head down on the table
and took a nap.
Hearing her phone vibrate, she stretchedzily before heading to the restroom.
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While seated on the toilet, her mind was still addled with sleep, and she continued to daydream with her eyes half closed.
At that moment, the door to the restroom opened, and two voices engaged in conversation reached her ears.
‘Really? Isn’t that too pitiful? Good thing I’ve decided not to get married in this life.”
“| really don’t understand what she’s thinking. She left her good-looking ex-boyfriend and married an ugly guy, only to be
mistreated by her inws.”
“| heard that she married the ugly guy but still misses her ex-boyfriend. She couldn’t bear to throw away the high heels that he
had given her and even wore them for three years!”
“No way! She’s usually dressed so conservatively, so | thought that she was an honest and responsible person. Who would''ve
thought that she’d be such aplicated person?
“Haha, okay, let’s stop talking about it.”
The voices of the two individuals gradually became more distant.
Aurelia breathed a sigh of relief. She made sure that the restroom waspletely empty before she dared to get up and flush.
The women’s restroom was like the intelligence bureau of the entire building. Although no names would be mentioned, everyone
would know who was being talked about.
But, who were they talking about this time? Who was so unlucky to be abused by her inws? Someone who wore the same
pair of heels for three years? That seemed inexplicably familiar.
Aurelia didn’t dwell on it too much. She washed her hands, neatly redid her hair, and then straightened her slightly wrinkled
dress.
After making sure that she looked presentable, Aurelia walked out of the restroom, only to find that everyone who walked by her
would give her an extra nce.
She wondered if she had missed something that needed tidying up.
“Aurelia!” Millic rushed over, panting.
“What''s wrong?” Aurelia reached out to support the breathless Millic.
“Look at this! | saw it in themunity chat.”
Themunity chat was a group chat created by acquaintances in the building. There were employees from variouspanies
in it. In short, it was just a gossip group.
Aurelia used to be in that group chat, but there were too many internal conflicts.
Thete-night discussions about trivial matters and the group members‘ tendency to always tag everyone annoyed her.
Eventually, she grew tired of it and left the group.
She never thought that she’d be the subject of discussion in that group one day.
“Who''s the one from Young Advertising that’s being mistreated after getting married?” the ountant from the foreign trade
company upstairs inquired.
“No, | heard that it’s her inws who treat her horribly. Not only does she have to take care of her seriously ill mother, but she
also has to bear the actions of her nasty mother-inw. The worst part is that her husband looks like a bull, ugly but strong, so
she doesn’t dare to resist. “Today, she only ate vegetables for lunch, with a few pieces of shredded meat. After eating. she was
so tired that she fell asleep. Poor thing,” The receptionist from the consultingpany downstairs sent, adding a sad emoji after
the text.
money,
“What''s so pitiful about it? | heard that she broke up with her boyfriend because of and then she married someone else in a fit of
anger. Isn’t she just reaping what she sowed?” the designer from the adjacent renovationpany criticized.N?velDrama.Org holds this content.
“Now she’s stuck with a man who''s worse than her ex-boyfriend for the rest of her life.”
The discussion about how her husband wasn’t as good as the ex-boyfriend continued for more
than 99 messages.
Although Aurelia’s name was never mentioned from the beginning to the end, who else in Young Advertising had recently gotten
married and had a mother who was seriously ill?
Aurelia held the phone and looked at Millie hesitantly.
“How did they find out?”
Millie was visibly startled, and she shook her head vigorously,
“Aurelia, it’s not me! It’s really not me! At first, it was just a few people in thepany upstairs discussing the rtionship
between a mother-inw and a daughter-inw. | didn’t