Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Something was wrong with her brother.
He still came into the storage room after work, bringing Lin Shishi the perfumes she wanted.
He still spoke to her with gentle, tender words.
But there were always messages or calls that interrupted their time alone.
Her brother would guiltily darken his phone screen, explaining with a shifty gaze that it was just something for work.
However, Lin Shishi had seen it. When his phone lit up, the contact name on the screen was “Baby.”
The unease in her heart surged like a monstrous flood, drowning her entire being.
Lin Shishi leaned against her brother’s shoulder, like a drowning person clinging to a piece of driftwood.
She didn’t dare ask; she chose to turn a blind eye.
In her life, love had always been the ultimate luxury.
The moment she spoke up, she might once again become the one who was abandoned.
No, there was no “might” about it.
Her former pride had been worn away to nothing, and insecurity spread through her flesh and blood like gnarled tree roots.
Wretched as she was, how could she ever compete with the person her brother called “Baby”?
Why was God so cruel? Lin Shishi wondered.
She had finally obtained a scrap of love, only to have it shared with another, plundered by someone else.
She looked at her brother, the greed in her heart opening its bloody maw like a starving python.
How could she make someone choose her and only her?
She would have to become his only choice.