"That's right! I've known your mom since she was twenty-something. She had a bit of baby fat at the time and wasn't as thin as she is right now. She has always been pretty, though," Mike said.
"Dad is handsome, too."
"Haha! Do you like your dad that much?"
"He is nice to me," Ivy said without hesitation.
"Well, your dad isn't so bad. He started to grow on me ever since he stopped fighting with your mom." Mike no longer despised Elliot as he had in the past, and the two had not argued for a long time.
"Your mom is the reason why I'm alive right now. She saved my life," Mike said. "After she cured me, I was determined to stay by her side no matter what. It's a good thing that I made that decision, or God knows where I would have ended up!"
"Uncle Mike, what did you work as in the past?"
"I was a hacker."
Impressed, Ivy said, "So you are really good with computers?"
"Of course! I was your older brother's teacher, you know?" he said smugly. "Of course, he got even better than me."
Ivy was in awe.
"Do you know that the things we see on the internet are just the tip of an iceberg?" Mike asked.
Ivy shook her head. "No. No one has ever told me that."
"It's good to not know, I guess. Some knowledge just doesn't do you any good. You just need to enjoy your life." Mike smiled endearingly. "Forget about everything that upset you in the past. This is your real life now."
"He is a little older than me. I used to work for his family, and he took care of me. I had this really ugly scar on my face in the past and no one would speak to me, so I didn't have any friends... But he never looked down on me because of it..." Ivy said hesitantly.
She had never mentioned any of this to her family as she did not want them to feel sorry for her.
"Do you want to see this friend of yours, then? I can take you to him without telling anyone else," Mike offered.
"I don't know where he is, though. All I know is that he is studying here."
In truth, Ivy was not ready to see Lucas. She did not know what to say when she saw him; he was studying in Edelweiss, and she would return to Aryadelle soon, so they might not see each other again.
"Oh, so you lost touch, huh?" Mike understood the situation. "Do you want to know which university he is studying in? I can find out."
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