A Film Queen

Chapter 393

Charlie asked, “So, are you and your brother close?”

Milly’s hands paused as he recalled Leon’s face.

Honestly, she had landed in this story from another world, so logically, she shouldn’t feel much attachment to Leon as her foster brother. But whenever she thought of his gentle, refined face, she couldn’t help but feel a warm connection.

“Yeah, my brother is really good to me. Life wasn’t as lavish when I lived with the Smiths before, but whenever I wanted something, Dad, Mom, and my brother made sure I got it.”

If the original owner were still around, she’d probably answer the same way.

Charlie’s eyes darkened slightly, but in the end, he said nothing. He simply crouched down, suppressing his cleanliness obsession, and began picking at the grass roots. “I’ll help you!

He dug hard, but after a while, the roots he found were either too small or broken, totally useless as medicine.

Milly frowned, feeling sorry as she looked at the nearly destroyed bupleurum. Unable to hold back, she asked, “You and Matthew… Is there some issue between you two? Do you not want him to live?”

Charlie said, “Huh? I didn’t.”

“Forget it. Just stay aside. If you keep going, Matthew won’t have any of this lifesaving herb left.”

After shooing Charlie to the side, Milly dug faster. Before long, she had enough bupleurum. “Okay, that’s enough. Let’s head back now. We’ve got to brew the medicine when we get back.”

“Okay.”

As they passed by the spot where the fishing net had been laid earlier, Charlie suddenly stopped in his tracks. “Wait a moment. I’ll go check. Looks like there are fish inside.”

up at

Could that worn- out fishing net really catch fish? There wasn’t even any bait inside, and

really this easy to

The fish seemed decent in size, splashing

hard to see its

his lips and softly spoke to Milly behind him, “Step back a bit. I’ll

blinked and took a few steps back.

she was in a safe position, Charlie grabbed the rope tied to the stone on the

would be difficult to haul it up. But

resisting and obediently allowed

palm. With a loud “thud,” the fish was pulled out

“Aoaoao…”

squeezed through. It seemed

That familiar call…

familiar way

the same dumb little white shark she had seen yesterday, Milly twitched her mouth corner. Is this little guy doing this on purpose? Does it think this fishing net is made of gold? It clearly got caught in it last time,

little white shark clearly spotted her too, wagging its tail in excitement. “Aoaoao!” Its cries were louder this time, with a

too much, causing Charlie to almost lose grip of the rope for

seemed the fishing net couldn’t be cast anymore. Instead

grabbed her arm firmly. His expression was serious, and his voice was solemn. “Don’t go over there. It’s too

about how slow she was and how

helplessly at Charlie and explained, “I know. It’s okay. I know

He clearly didn’t grasp the meaning of

might run out of oxygen if left too long on the surface. She hurriedly explained to him, “Yesterday, when I came out to find food, I saw it and decided to rescue it. So,

and quickly pulled up the fishing net, rescuing the small white shark trapped inside in just a