On that unremarkable day, a remark made inadvertently by Lin Lei rippled through Li Xiuqin’s heart like a stone cast into a still lake.
She thought of the radiant Qian Ruixue, a woman who seemed to have stepped straight out of a painting, and felt a surge of confusion and resentment that such a person could be so generous to someone who had once stumbled in life.
"The more I think about it, the more bitter I feel. That Cartier Necklace my sister gave her, worth one hundred thirty-eight thousand, might as well have been thrown into the sea for all the good it did us," Li Xiuqin said, filled with regret.
Chapter 29