As soon as these words were uttered, Xian Qianling deflated on the spot.
In fact, compared with Zhao’er and Wu Qiyi, Xian Qianling was the one with the least advantage.
On one hand, her relationship with you was not as profound as theirs, and on the other hand, there were the elders to consider.
Everyone knew that the most important relative to you was your mother, and whether a daughter-in-law could enter the family or not also hinged crucially on passing that hurdle posed by your mother.
Both Zhao’er and Wu Qiyi had no issues in that regard, whereas Xian Qianling hadn’t yet t your mother, let alone won her approval.
After a mont of silence, Xian Qianling finally gathered her courage, looked up and said to you, "When is aunt coming back? When she does, I’ll go with you to pick her up, okay?"
"Big sister, elder sister, please can you stop making trouble? There aren’t many days left until New Year’s, just let have a peaceful and good year," you almost bowed deeply in thanks to Xian Qianling when you heard she wanted to et your mother.
Xian Qianling’s eyes suddenly flickered, and she smiled charmingly, "Fine, I won’t cause trouble, but since I’m already here, you can’t rush to send away, right?"
You covered your head with a look of constipation, "Alright, have it your way."
Xian Qianling raised her eyebrows in a smile, displaying a self-satisfied deanor.
anwhile, Su Xiaong took the bus back to the apartnt she was renting.
"Oh, Xiaong, why didn’t you go to work today?"
Grandma Wang, who lived on the first floor and was cradling her grandson, greeted her with a benevolent smile.
Su Xiaong smiled back, "I felt a bit unwell today, so I took a leave and ca back."
"Oh, then you must take good care of yourself. It’s not easy for a girl to be out and about on her own, you have to be extra cautious with everything, especially your health – you can’t overwork yourself to illness."
"Yes, thank you, Grandma Wang, I understand."
She turned and went upstairs. Passing the second floor, she glanced at the glass mounted on the wall.
Gazing at her reflection in the glass, Su Xiaong sighed softly.
Her younger brother was due to take the college entrance exam the following year, while her younger sister was in her first year of high school; the ager inco her parents earned from farming could hardly cover the tuition and living expenses, much of which depended on the three thousand yuan Su Xiaong sent ho.
Three months prior, her father had injured his back while working on the farm and had to lie in bed for several months to recuperate, essentially depriving the household of its main breadwinner. Additionally, there were the increasing dical expenses each month.
To cover the cost of treating her father’s back, her mother had borrowed tens of thousands from relatives and friends.
Su Xiaong was counting on the nearly twenty thousand yuan end-of-year bonus to pay off so of the debt. But now that the bonus had gone up in smoke and she had to find a new job at the beginning of the next year, the already unstable Su Xiaong beca increasingly agitated.
She opened the door to her room, walked in, and slamd her bag down on the bed. She entered the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and continuously splashed the ice-cold, bone-chilling water onto her face.
"Why has it co to this?"
Su Xiaong, with her face dripping wet, stared powerlessly at her reflection in the mirror.
"What should I do? What should I do now?"
Su Xiaong rested her forehead against the mirror, her face etched with distress.
At that mont, the mirror again produced ripples, and two long, sharp-nailed, skeletal hands slowly reached out, wrapping around Su Xiaong’s head.
Just as the gaunt hands were about to clasp Su Xiaong’s head, she suddenly looked up: "No, I can’t continue to waste away like this, no matter how..."
As Su Xiaong talked to herself, she suddenly noticed the hands extending from the mirror and imdiately "swooshed" back two steps, evading the embrace of the skeletal hands!
"What, what is this thing!?"
The two gaunt hands slowly retracted back into the mirror, and the ripples in the mirror gradually subsided, revealing Su Xiaong’s reflection once again.
"Ah!"
Su Xiaong staggered back in horror, for the reflection in the mirror was actually smiling at her, a smile extrely sinister and malevolent!
Soon after, the "Su Xiaong" in the mirror stretched out her hand towards her, and the once normal hand beca skeletal under her gaze, with sharp, knife-like red nails growing on the fingers!
The "Su Xiaong" in the mirror beckoned at Su Xiaong with a smile.
Without a word, Su Xiaong imdiately dashed out of the bathroom, grabbed her bag from the bed, and fled from the house.
As she descended the stairs, Su Xiaong passed by a wall mirror, and she deliberately glanced at it, only to see her reflection also greeting her with sharp-nailed, skeletal hands!
"How can this be, what is this thing!"
Su Xiaong hurried down the stairs and ran into the sunlight.
Although the winter sunlight was not glaring, it still brought a bit of warmth to Su Xiaong’s chilled heart.
Su Xiaong, clutching her head, mumbled to herself: "This must be a hallucination, right? There are no ghosts in this world."
With this thought, Su Xiaong went up the stairs again, and in the second-floor mirror, she saw nothing unusual, the sa was true when she returned to her rented room.
She let out a long sigh of relief, and at that mont her phone rang.
She picked it up and saw that it was her only good friend in this city, Little Lan: "Xiaong, my cousin has opened a high-end ladies’ clothing store. The year-end is coming, and she’s really busy. One of her employees just left due to so personal matters, and they are short one person. You have such great figure and appearance; you’d be perfect for the job. Plus, I’ve talked to her, you’d be paid by the hour, fifty yuan per hour. If you exceed the sales target, there’s a commission too."
"Really!?"
Su Xiaong, overjoyed, imdiately agreed.
Half an hour later, Su Xiaong t a girl who had dressed herself in pretty pinks at the entrance of the Yuhang Building mall.
The two held hands and went up to the fifth floor, entering a high-end won’s clothing store.
Cousin Lan was very pleased with Su Xiaong’s appearance; after all, during her college years, Su Xiaong was one of the top ten beauties at Zhijiang Academy. Back then, many rich and handso n pursued her, but she had no interest in these silver-spoon brats with hearts full of gold-plated excrent, so she had been single over the years.
The two quickly signed a simple contract, with Su Xiaong working there for a month and a half, earning sixty yuan per hour, and an extra two percent commission on any daily sales over one hundred thousand.
Upon hearing about the two percent commission, Su Xiaong was ecstatic as none of the dresses here was priced under six thousand!
Su Xiaong quickly followed Cousin Lan’s instructions, entered the fitting room, and put on a twenty thousand yuan suit to serve as a live mannequin, in order to more effectively attract the rich ladies and young heiresses.
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