Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 851

When Victoria saw Johanna again, she could hardly believe her eyes.

“Johanna… you look really different!”

Johanna wore an elegant, ladylike dress. Her long hair cascaded smoothly down her back, so different from the image she had always shown the world.

Johanna gently adjusted a strand of hair and said softly, “Thomas told me my silhouette doesn’t match the one he remembers. In his memory, that back belonged to someone far more graceful.”

She paused briefly before continuing.

“I’ve done some digging. Kelly’s style has always been exactly that, so it’s no wonder Thomas mistook her for his savior. And as for Sharon…”

At the mention of Sharon, a glint of icy light flickered in Johanna’s eyes. (1

“She, too, once carried that kind of image.”

Something about it all felt off, but Victoria couldn’t quite place her finger on it.

“So, Johanna, does Thomas fully believe it’s you now?”

But I want to

change yourself so completely, just for him… Is

“Do you really think I’d remake myself for a man? This is nothing more than a tactic-to win him over, to make him fall for me

hands, her brows knitting. “You’re

never fully healed. Calluses still lingered, faint but telling-the unmistakable

expression tightening

in my violin playing feel hollow. I’ve

focused on technique, I easily neglected the emotional part. The only way is to keep practicing, over and over.”

on the tip of her

“Say whatever you want to say. We’re best friends. There’s

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you pour so much effort into any man before,”

deepened, pride and arrogance

ambition aren’t worth my time. As

was no lovestruck softness in her

I thrive

challenge, the heavier the cost of persistence. By the time she realized it, would

phone rang. She glanced at the screen, and the corner of her lips curved into a pleased

“It’s Thomas.”

answered. The call was brief.