Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

"There are too many people in this spot, so the fish are swimming to you. You're sitting where the current flows. If any fish come, they'll definitely bite your hook first," Esther confidently explained, thinking she had mastered some secret.

She then stubbornly changed her spot and started fishing again.

After three quiet hours, Esther was getting sleepy. Suddenly, she woke up to find three people standing around her, all with faint smiles.

"Weren't we fishing? Why are you all here all of a sudden?"

Esther had just woken up, thinking she had just dozed off. But when she checked the time, three hours had passed.

"I haven't caught a single fish, have I?" she exclaimed.

James shrugged, a faint smile on his lips. "You've been asleep here for so long. Even if there were fish on the hook, they've probably all eaten the bait and left."

"What? I'm going to lose?" Esther drooped her head in disappointment. But then she saw James walking over with his bucket and pouring all his fish into hers.

"It doesn't matter. I'll give you mine. Consider yourself the winner."

didn't feel it was unfair. Instead, she smiled

content, they decided to grill the fish by the lake that

in charge of setting up the barbecue, while Pearl and Richard went to gather firewood. Near the lake,

forest, and Richard held Pearl's hand tightly, afraid she might get lost. After collecting

person clearly, she exclaimed, "It's her!" Richard also

I met in the hospital

lot like you and

mother," Pearl explained.

we go

boy Pearl said looked

"Sure." Pearl nodded.

soon as they approached, the woman noticed them. She panicked and prepared to run away with the kid. Pearl felt even more puzzled when she saw

and grabbed the woman's arm. "Who are you? Why did you run when you

woman lowered her head,

eyes