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Both grandmothers immediately showed concern. “Are you okay? Did you catch a cold?”

Maggie wiped her nose with a tissue and said, “Maybe.”

She might have caught a cold last night, but it hadn’t been obvious until now.

Maggie’s grandmother and Grandma Wilson had been friends for many years.

However, neither of them mentioned the events that had occurred at her birthday banquet

or the issues involving Franklin and Julia. They just continued chatting happily.

After sitting for a while, Maggie received a call from Jessica, who told her that she had run into Franklin and the Brown family again.

Jessica said, “I can’t believe I keep running into this kind of thing! I don’t want to deal with

it!”

Then she asked where Maggie was.

Maggie replied, “At my grandmother’s place.”

“Did you go back alone?”

“With Isabella and Grandma Wilson.”

Jessica immediately understood: “So, Franklin didn’t come back with you, but went over to have dinner with the Brown family?”

Maggie didn’t say anything.

After hanging up, Maggie sneezed again.

Maggie’s aunt, Harry, was worried that she might be coming down with something, so she made her a bowl of ginger soup. After drinking it, Maggie felt her head get heavier and,

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soon after, fell asleep.

When she woke up, she realized she had a high fever, and her head was spinning.

Isabella approached her, looking somewhat concerned. “Mom, are you sick?”

Maggie: “Mm.”

Grandma Wilson was also very worried and wanted to take her back to the Wilson family so that the family’s regular doctor could check on her, saying that the old doctor would help her recover quickly.

she insisted that Maggie go back to the old Wilson family home for the doctor

examined her, he prescribed some medicine, and after Maggie

later, she felt much better, her

eyes and saw that the small lamp beside her

Franklin sitting there, reading a

paused for a moment.

she was

the place where he

Franklin turned to look at her.

uncomfortable and wasn’t

She didn’t respond.

about to get out of bed, but Franklin walked over and

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took

her forehead, but Maggie, feeling heavy–headed,

then retracted his hand and stood

Stanley is still downstairs. I’ll have him

speak, he left the room.

Grandma Wilson, Franklin,

she was already feeling much better, but she still needed to

she was physically weak and had some emotional stagnation, so it was easy for her to fall ill when

Maggie nodded.

“Maggie, are you hungry?”

much at lunch due to her discomfort and had gone to

to evening, and she was indeed hungry,

so she instructed Franklin to go

turned and left the

he returned

the elderly left the room.

however, did not leave. He sat beside her as she ate, continuing to

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that

furrowed her brow

hour that day and found some of your ideas quite interesting. They gave me new insights, so I took it to read

lips and ignored

much of an appetite to begin with, and now it was

hand and looked at her, saying, “After all these years, you

argue properly?”

her face away.

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