Zephyr was wearing it on his hand, so Cordelia was able to compare them straight away.
They were really identical. Even the design of the bell and weaving method was the same.
The couple exchanged a look and nodded in unison. Zephyr held Cordelia’s hand, and they swiftly left Royal Manor.
They drove to the hot spring hotel close to the beach. The air smelled slightly salty as well. After getting out of the car, they took the winding path and heard a familiar voice not too long later.
“Young lady, your life ahead is great!
“Hmm… but romantic relationship-wise, it’s a bit weaker. Hah, you two will part sooner or later!”
Cordelia’s heart squeezed as she quickened her steps.
The one standing there was still that old woman. She was reading a tourist’s palm with a small smile that looked like she knew everything.
Cordelia froze and heard the old woman say, “But one day, you’ll be happy!”
Was this not what she had told them back then as well?
“These two bracelets are for you.” The old woman produced two red-weaved strings with bells on them. “If you separate one day, this bracelet will let you know where each other is.”
Zephyr was stunned as well.
She said the same thing to whoever it was!
He chuckled self-depreciatingly and was going to leave with Cordelia, but the latter’s stubbornness flared and insisted on making things clear with the old woman.
“How could she do this? Isn’t that tricking us? At this age too!”
“Forget it.” Zephyr chortled. “If it wasn’t to make a livelihood, she wouldn’t be fortune telling here at this age.”
“But…” Cordelia pouted. “I was worried for so long because of what she said!”
A surge of warmth rushed into Zephyr’s heart. He was the same. Sometimes, when he woke up in the middle of the night and recalled those words, thinking that they would part one day, he could hardly get back to sleep.
Now that he knew the truth—that the old woman did not know how to tell one’s fortune and was only tricking them—he did not feel the anger of being cheated but like a rock had been lifted off.
“Young lady, would you like me to take a look for you?” The old woman slowly walked to them with a cane and pretended to scan Cordelia before saying with certainty, “You have a wealthy destiny. I think you’re…”
“I have the destiny of an empress!” Cordelia crossed her arms in front of her.
The old woman looked surprised. Since she was experienced in this, though, she calmed down and smiled. “Yes. It’s good… But young lady, your romance will not go smoothly. You and this one next to you…”
“We’ll part sooner or later!” Cordelia was so angry she actually huffed a laugh.
The old woman blinked. ‘Whoops, I might have met them before and not done a good job. They are not here to settle the score with me, are they?’
The old woman was going to flee when a voice came from nearby. “What nonsense are you spewing here again!?”
When Cordelia and Zephyr looked in the voice’s direction, they found it was actually Clark!
It was like a mouse meeting the cat when the old woman saw Clark. She stopped limping or hunching and was going to toss her cane away and run for it.
Clark managed to stop her before that and grabbed the back of her collar like he was catching a chicken.
“Hey, softer! Softer!”
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