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The onlookers blinked and took a moment to process it. The person the young woman had kept in her heart and secretly loved from afar had become her mother's kept man.

It was as if the pale, distant moon she had always gazed up at but could never reach had suddenly fallen into a filthy, reeking gutter.

No wonder she had reacted so strongly. It was a lot to take in.

The crowd looked at her with sympathy.

"What's she supposed to do? I couldn't accept it either."

"How did it come to this? It's her first love on one side and her mother on the other. She must feel awful."

"Of course she does. The world's so small that she ran into them here. That's brutal."

The young man clearly hadn't expected to see Xiaoying here either. He stood frozen for a long moment before saying, "I'm sorry, Xiaoying. I really do love your mother."

His words struck Xiaoying like lightning, leaving her dazed. The crowd was stunned too.

"You're kidding. He's calling it true love?"

"Seriously? I don't buy it!"

"Don't insult true love like that."

Of course it isn't true love. He just doesn't want to work for a living. He wants money, and she enjoys his youth. They're each getting what they want. How could that be true love?

He's only saying that because he's already with Xiaoying's mother. There's no turning back now, so he has to insist his feelings are genuine.

Can't she see him for who he is yet? He stopped being the boy she loved a long time ago.

Xiaoying could hear Shen Luoluo's thoughts too. She stared blankly at the man in front of her, the man she had loved for seven years. Suddenly, he felt like a stranger. The person