Mrs. Loxley was wearing an elegant sapphire blue dress, embroidered with patterns in the same color scheme. She wore her hair up with a tiara-like hairpin on her head while the tassels on her earrings sparkled. She held her head high as if only by doing so could she appear superior to me.

But what she didn't know was that there had never been any competition between us. Everything was just her own presumptions. I felt sorry for Matthew for having such a person as his mother.

I had been shuffling between people with the professor and hadn't noticed her presence until now. Seeing her, I just felt annoyed.

Jinovy was so big. How could I bump into her so easily?

What a small world!

The arrogant Mrs. Loxley obviously recognized me too. Standing proudly among a group of middle-aged women, she looked at me with caution, resistance, and a hint of surprise.

But whatever she had in mind, it had nothing to do with me. I simply didn't want to deal with her at all. So, I just looked past her as if I hadn't seen her People said the most powerful retaliation was ignorance.

This time, I would ignore her completely.

front of so many people. Anyway, I wasn't

the professor allowed me to roam by myself and went upstairs to meet with important

about an hour, for someone who rarely wore

as the professor left, I found a corner to sit down and took off my shoes to relieve my feet. But then I found that the back of one of my ankles was soaked in blood from where the stockings had been rubbing against

with my hand to cool down the wounds while muttering curses at the damn shoes under

In a mix of shock and annoyance, I quickly put

and endured

was a rose logo on

head in

face

a hint of teasing was looking at me. A

el.

like you. You're quite interesting. Did you hurt your foot? Here, a gift

until it almost touched the tip of my nose, making me move back

the intention of this unexpected

searched through my memories but couldn't find

a complete stranger to

and giving me a gift suddenly? Was he trying to

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