Li Jingtai turned around and carefully studied Su Qiao's profile. "You and that Officer He—are you related somehow?"
"I don't know either. My mother was an orphan, while my father was Chinese. He used to be a sailor and spent years drifting at sea. Later, he met my mother and settled here."
"Later, my mother died in childbirth when she had me, and my father also passed away in a shipwreck."
Su Qiao had looked into it. She and He Meishu shouldn't have been related at all. Their resemblance was purely coincidental.
"It's not unheard of for two strangers to look alike. Some married couples even start to resemble each other."
"Besides, I have this mole by my eye, don't I? Could you really mistake me for her?"
Li Jingtai's gaze fell on the beauty mark beneath the corner of Su Qiao's eye, and he seemed somewhat dazed. "This mole..."
Su Qiao touched the corner of her left eye. "What about it?"
She thought the mole looked rather nice. At the very least, it made her more recognizable.
The original owner had gotten it because her facial features were too sharp and rugged. She had deliberately had a mole added to give herself a touch more femininity.
Li Jingtai snapped out of his daze and hurriedly shook his head. "Nothing. I was just going to say that this mole makes you easy to recognize."
"That way, even if you got lost one day, I could find you at the ends of the earth."
"..." Could she get lost?
She was a fully grown adult. Where could she possibly get lost?
"This kind of thing disappears if you have it removed. What's so convenient about it?"
Su Qiao looked completely unimpressed.
"If this mole were gone, couldn't you find me? Wouldn't