She subconsciously touched her aching chest, unable to help herself from thinking: someone as cold and aloof as Bian Xunzhou must surely want to be left alone right now.
From a dozen meters away, Wen Xuyu watched the man’s lonely silhouette and was struck by the strange illusion that they were "two people suffering in the same wilderness." To her, Jiang Lihua was a mother, but she was only the mother of Wen Qianxue and Wen Qianyu, not hers.
Perhaps sensing something, Bian Xunzhou turned slowly, his dark eyes flashing with surprise as he saw Wen Xuyu standing behind him, looking utterly disheveled. He did not even notice himself that a hint of something resembling joy had surfaced in his heart.
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