For the past two years, she had appeared to be living a carefree life, but only she knew how much effort it had taken to scrub Pei Huaiyu’s shadow from her existence. She had no desire to wake up every morning with eyes so swollen she looked like a frog, and that was how she comforted herself.
She wandered from place to place. Once she settled down, she busied herself with her own business, pestering neighbors, playing with cats, and walking dogs. She was never idle. That was her intention, at least—to keep so busy that she would have no time to think of Pei Huaiyu.
Yet, facts proved that when it came to being heartless, she truly possessed a natural talent, one that had deceived both Pei Huaiyu and herself.
Chapter 62