208 Modern-Day Rapunzel

Lu Xinyi had always admired her step-mother but the void that she wasn't her birth-mother never filled. She didn't hate her, she was just deprived of familiarity and involvement with that family. 

She wasn't her mother, she didn't share the same bond with her that she shared with her sons. Lu Sheng and Lu Han weren't her brothers like they were of each other, and her father was too busy to be there to be a father; She felt they were a family and she was an extension, a stain on a complete family...

She was envious of what they had; A family that gave you familiarity.

Lu Xinyi sighed at her melancholy thoughts then smiled genuinely and motioned her to come forward, when Riley came in front of her she gestured her to sit, "How many times do I have to tell you not to call me 'Miss Lu', just call me Xinyi, Okay?"

Riley nodded with a half-smirk, "Okay, Miss Lu."

Lu Xinyi huffed and shook her head with a smile, "Forget about it. Let's just go."