After taking the cookies, Nangong Xue lowered her head and focused on eating. As if to keep Chen Mo from seeing the blush on her cheeks, she kept her head turned away!
Unexpectedly, she ate a little too quickly and suddenly choked on a cookie!
"Ugh!~" Nangong Xue was miserable for a moment. The food was stuck in her throat, making her extremely uncomfortable! This was something she had never experienced in over twenty years!
Today really was her day of misfortune! Even when her mother had been seriously ill and she had cared for her by the bedside, she had never faced such hardship! For the sake of a promise, for the sake of her business, she had no choice but to come to this place that had always frightened her!
What she had not expected was that this trip had nearly cost her her life. Though now, there did not seem to be much difference!
Nangong Xue had no Spiritual Sense or anything like that. It was entirely because Chen Mo was beside her now that she could feel even a little safe. Otherwise, she would have broken down long ago!
Her mother was gravely ill, lying in bed and growing thinner by the day. Nangong Xue had not cried. All she had done was remain vigilantly at her mother's side, caring for her without rest! It was also for her mother's illness that she had agreed to Chen Mo's request.
To avoid a Marriage Alliance arranged by her family, she had used her abilities to enter the jewelry business and built it into one with annual profits in the billions! But how could anyone know how much hardship lay behind a young woman earning billions every year? People only saw her glamorous exterior. They did not know