Christina saw her stepmother flirting with another man with her own eyes, but everyone else turned a blind eye to it and even told her not to mention it to her father.
"They said flirting with young male stars was just a way to hype the new drama she was in. And my aunt specifically reminded me not to mention it to my father, or he would be irritated. I really don't understand what they were thinking of. My stepmother was cheating on him and they just didn't care!"
Christina had been in C City for a week. To her surprise, Crystal, who she had thought must have gone back to A City, was also here. Crystal looked radiant. Apparently, everything had been going smoothly for her recently.
Now that Christina was with her best friend, she couldn't help but complain to her about what had happened recently.
Crystal, whose face was glowing with happiness, was also surprised about what Christina had told her.
"Your father really doesn't care about it?"
"Actually, concerning Connie's identity, the actress might not be an appropriate job for her. It's strange that your father agreed her to continue to work in the entertainment industry in the first place"
Christina's face darkened. "Obviously, Connie somehow managed to trick all the members of the Dickens family people to take her side. My father is okay with her developing her own career."
"Develop her career?"
Crystal was still a little confused, asking after a moment of consideration, "Wasn't your mother a pianist? You said that your father made her stop all her performances."
"Yes, it's unfair!"
Christina got furious immediately. "Connie can go anywhere she wants and develops her career while my mother was forbidden to do all kinds of things as soon as they got married. This is the difference between the ways a man treats his lover and his wife. Hmph!"
Seeing how angry she was, Crystal couldn't help but laugh.
"That's not what I meant." She felt that it was difficult to talk with Christina about things concerning relationships between humans.
"Logically speaking, your father was not good enough for your mother when they got married because she was from the Eisenhower family and, according to her photos you once showed me, she looked really noble and beautiful. How could he actually forbid your mother from doing the things she liked?"
Christina's biological mother, Mary Eisenhower, was an internationally renowned pianist. As a woman with outstanding looks and brilliant talents, she was very influential in the country and had countless pursuers, who, however, ended up marrying a poor young man and disappearing from the public ever since. Many people sighed about her life choice.
"My mother married the wrong person." Christina was no longer so resentful when recalling the past. She just complained, "And my grandfather was always partial towards my father. I don't understand why."
Crystal looked at this from a different angle. "Your father must have been under a lot of pressure to marry your mother back then."
"I don't know."
Christina suddenly realized that she actually knew nothing about her previous family. Her parents never quarreled in front of her and her grandfather always took her to live with the Eisenhower family. Therefore, she didn't know much about her parents.
She was a little annoyed. "Whatever, my aunt also told me to stay out of this."
Seeing how depressed she was, Crystal did not ask further.
Donald's condition had stabilized. The hospital said that he would be discharged in two days, so Christina was thinking about when she should go back to A City.
"Crystal, how long are you staying here?"
She wanted to ask Crystal to return to A City with her, but Crystal looked guilty when she heard this question, "Maybe in a few days."
There was a moving milk tea stall on their right. Crystal escaped immediately by rushing there to buy some drinks. Christina wasn't a sharp person, but she could feel that Crystal was hiding something from her.
"Crystal, who are you with these days? What are you doing in C city?"
Crystal handed her a cup of milk tea in original taste and lowered her head to drink the one in her hands. She took a guilty breath and confessed in a low voice, "Actually, I didn't come here alone..."
Christina frowned. "You're with a man?"
Crystal stammered nervously. "It was just an accident at first. I don't know why it turned out like this..." Her secret was discovered!
"Christina?"
A middle-aged woman in the milk tea shop shouted in surprise, interrupting their conversation.
Christina turned around. It was an acquaintance of her.
"Aunt Zamani, why did you move your shop here?"
Christina stopped questioning Crystal for the time being and walked up to greet the owner of the milk tea stall. She asked directly, "Weren't your shop at the school gate? Business there should be better."
Aunt Zamani made up an excuse with an awkward smile. "No, the business didn't go well there. Change of places, that's quite common for us."
"Hello, Aunt Zamani."
Crystal also recognized her. Her milk tea shop had been a success in the past. It didn't seem possible that such a shop could have closed down.
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