PAID

"Wuwuwu..."

Lü Meihe pulled the blanket over her daughter and sighed. "They were already husband and wife. Today was just a romantic ceremony. Why are you… so fixated on Qin Xian? Technically, we’re still relatives. How can you—"

Yu Lu suddenly threw off the blanket, crying as she shouted, "Whatever I wanted in the past, you and Dad always gave me! Wasn’t I your most beloved daughter? And besides, in foreign high society, most marriages aren’t even first marriages! I’m no worse than Ji Fei! Why can’t I steal him?! You saw it today! It was so grand, so romantic! Qin Xian is so outstanding—no one compares to him!"

Lü Meihe hesitated. "If it were before he got married, I might have shamelessly helped you get introduced… but now—"

"You won’t help me, and Dad won’t help me either! But if he just hypnotized Qin Xian, he would definitely fall in love with me!" Yu Lu screamed.

"Your father is a professional psychiatrist. How could he just hypnotize people at will?" Lü Meihe said helplessly. "Besides, hypnosis isn’t some magical cure-all."

Yu Lu was about to argue when she suddenly remembered something.

Her father had hypnotized her mother before—to alter her memories. He had told her it was because her mother had experienced something traumatic in the past and needed help to forget certain things. But he had also warned her never to mention it.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Even as reckless as Yu Lu was, she didn’t dare spill that secret, so she forcefully swallowed her words.

But she couldn’t help feeling even more wronged.

"So… what he said was true… I really have no chance at all? This is so unfair! Why won’t he even look at me?!"

Yu Lu couldn't stop herself from confessing to her mother about the humiliating memory that had haunted her.

"Mom, do you know what happened? Two nights ago, I dressed up beautifully and went to see him for help, and he actually—"