Calculated Connections

"Who is she?" Sylvia looked indifferent and asked coldly.

Stella subconsciously held Hazel's hand and stepped forward to protect her. She answered slowly, "She... she's my childhood friend."

She no longer looked like an arrogant young lady as she did just now.

Hazel immediately looked at Stella with distress.

"A childhood friend?" Sylvia sneered. "The woman from the miserly poor village?"

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