Chapter 7

Xanthea asked, “So, are you gonna listen to me or not?”

“Of course! Your word is law to me, Xanthea!”

The door suddenly swung open, and Ethan entered with a stern face, looking at the joyful siblings, “Xan, you woke up today and only hugged Samuel. Now here you are whispering secrets with him. Don’t you care about me anymore?”

Xanthea burst into laughter at the obvious jealousy on Ethan’s face and quickly ran over to pull him close, “Ethan, we were just planning a surprise for you!”

“What surprise?”

“We’re all going to the gem betting event the day after tomorrow!”

“Isn’t that supposed to be a surprise just for you?”

Late at night, laughter echoed from the second floor of the mansion. Miranda looked towards the brightly lit study, her grip tightening on her cellphone.

she was told that Samuel’s study was off-limits to everyone. Listening to the sounds from inside now, it seemed it was

an adopted daughter, an outsider. Without any real support,

you

phone snapped her back to reality, “Matt, I’m here; sorry, what were

saying?”

you notice anything

“Off?”

that day she tried to help Xanthea, only to be publicly rebuffed, her face

irritable. After all, she’s the precious daughter of the family. I wasn’t there for her

But now his mind was filled with images of Xanthea ignoring him when she woke up and the indifferent way she left, which seemed not too abnormal but lacked the usual adoring attention and instead carried a mysterious

“By the

way,

anything after I

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Chapter 7

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