"What are you talking about? How could this be your shop? It clearly belonged to Mu You's parents! Weren't you from the countryside?" Lin Xue felt her hands trembling uncontrollably. A possibility that terrified her made her tone toward Xiao Ya grow increasingly harsh.
Xiao Ya's arm hurt terribly from being gripped, but she had no time to pay attention to it. Now she was genuinely worried, because she saw Lin Xue's eyes suddenly turn red, two trails of tears spilling down unconsciously. At such close range, she could clearly feel Lin Xue's extreme tension and unease.
"Yes, I'm from the countryside. I came to the city to work after dropping out of school when I was seventeen, and I met the elderly couple here... They had no children and treated me like their own daughter..."
"...Later, they became seriously ill. Before they passed away, they entrusted the Pet Shop to me..." Xiao Ya explained cautiously.
As Xiao Ya spoke, a corresponding memory actually appeared in Lin Xue's mind: before their deaths, the elderly couple had left the Pet Shop to Xiao Ya as her inheritance, intending for her to sell it and live on the money.
But Xiao Ya had not wanted to let the two elders down. She had resolutely chosen to keep the shop, stumbling along alone for years, struggling to keep a business that should long since have closed afloat to this day.
Even someone as innocent as Xiao Ya had learned how to run a business along the way. Taking advantage of the great changes in the world a year ago, she had promptly converted it into the Magic Pet Shop, finally making business flourish again.
This was a new memory that completely contradicted everything Lin Xue knew.
And now, this entirely new memory was