The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 175

Marian really showed up right on the dot, half an hour later.

Don himself went to greet her.

As the two of them made their way over, Sophia was zoning out by the fire, chin in hand.

Marian spotted Sophia by the fire from a mile away. Out of all the people around, she only knew Sophia, so she was super stoked and called out, "Sophia?"

Sophia looked up at the sound of her name and saw Marian standing in the crowd.

She hadn't dressed up or anything, just rocking a simple burgundy tee with navy blue denim shorts and her hair tossed up in a casual bun. She looked youthful and chill.

Sophia gave her a polite smile in return, just to acknowledge her.

Marian turned to whisper something to Don and then headed towards Sophia with a spring in her step, clearly loving life.

You could tell she was having a good run lately.

Sophia had lost touch with Marian after grad school and didn't really know what

was up with her these days, only heard from Don that she had headed back to the Frost family.

"When did you get back home?"

Marian sat down next to Sophia and hit her with the question, "It's been ages since I heard from you, had no clue you were back in town."

got back not too long ago," Sophia replied, then turned the question back, "What about you? When did you make it

grandpa wasn't doing too well and kept pestering me to come back, so I had to jet as soon as

entrance of the academic building, where everyone was fawning over Marian, and of the old man with white hair. Maybe subconsciously craving that kind of family recognition and not getting it made her a bit resistant to the topic, so she just offered a polite smile

to have a familiar ear, spilled her

trips about Grandpa's regrets and all that jazz. I felt bad, you know? I hadn't visited in two years, but they were pretty good to me, sent me loads of stuff, helped me out a bunch. I felt like not going back would be biting the hand that

back home and bored out of my mind every day.

asked Sophia, "So, what about you? What are

design," Sophia said, sidestepping the whole Frost family topic. She'd thought about finding her own family as a kid but didn't know where to start and had no means to do

studying and making

it.

she married Brandon, spent the first half of the

a half, without any memories or leads in the vast sea of faces, she

past couple of years, juggling studies and taking care of the kids, she was way too swamped to look for anyone

Doesn't that

career drive and kinda

her adoptive parents and the Frost family had given her a cushy financial

smiled, "It's

admire your tireless

genuinely envious

smiled but didn't

a kid without anyone's protection,

lively chatter turned into hushed,

at the

nonchalantly went back