Chapter 16

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Was she really supposed to go work at some supermarket inferior to Leya's, becoming a sales clerk again, never to turn her life around?

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Lin Mochen drove along the same road he had taken that night, heading to Mu Hanxia's place.

It was dusk, and the dim yellow sunlight poured into the car. A cell phone lay on the passenger seat.

After he had dropped off Mu Hanxia and returned home that day, Lin Mochen realized that the phone was on the back seat and it was out of power. It was a cheap brand, incompatible with his charger, so he just left it in the car without bothering.

Three days had passed, and that woman hadn't come looking for it.

At the traffic light intersection, Lin Mochen stopped and waited. People bustled past, and some vendors set up their stalls along the street. He noticed a stall selling cherries, small, smooth, and shiny, red with a tinge of yellow—not of a very high quality, likely sour to the taste.