HELPING HAND

Xue Jinxu stood still in the middle of her store, Kodomo-toki, one windy, chilly day in November. She ended her jittery plight being frozen on the spot, immersed in her own thought bubble, after pacing back and forth at the farther end of her store, away from prying eyes.

'How can I be so oblivious?' Graduated with horizontal lines, her forehead cringed even deeper from her awakening.

These past days of bliss and happiness, Xue Jinxu had been nothing more than a contented bride, ready to take on a new chapter and role as a mother to the future Chen spawns. Being in such high emotionally, mentally and spiritually, she had even been tolerant with the on-going gossips about her twin brother, and with the latest mess her younger, Xue Guangxi, was in.

But that was external concerns which were akin to foreign news to her.

The source of her agitation now was the discovery of negligence on her part towards the love of her life, Chen Linyun.