"Mother, what is wrong? Ever since we left the Liyuan Club, you have been distracted. Did Gu Cheng say something to you?"
Ling Lu looked at Liu Lan in the mirror, her face etched with concern. Today was Liu Lan’s birthday banquet. Liu Lan wore the dress Ling Lu had personally selected for her—a sky-blue silk cheongsam that hugged her slender frame, the collar and side fastening embroidered with sprays of begonia. A few strands of dark hair fell loosely from her updo. Beneath her arched, willow-leaf brows, her almond-shaped eyes were cast downward, harboring a faint melancholy that vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
"It is nothing, Xiaobao. Do not worry."
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