Lina grabbed the bag, looked to Ling Tianya with hesitation, and asked, “You think so?”
“If it were me, I’d get them all. Each color goes with different clothes,” Ling Tianya said, smiling.
Hearing Ling Tianya’s words, Lina chuckled and said, “I thought the same thing.”
The salesperson was thrilled when she heard they were buying all the bags. Just like she expected, it was a purchase worth more than a million!
“I’ll get one in each color,” Lina said to the salesperson.
The salesperson said “yes” repeatedly. She arranged for someone else to pack all the bags up, then said to Ling Tianya and Lina with extreme politeness, “Are you two sisters?”
“You think we are sisters?” Lina asked, surprised.
“Yes. Aren’t you two sisters? You kind of look like each other,” the salesperson said honestly. In her eyes, Lina was, at most, in her thirties. When she stood next to Ling Tianya, who was younger, they did look like sisters.
Lina pressed her lips together and chuckled. No one in the world did not like to be complimented, being told they looked younger than they actually were. “I am in my forties. I’m turning 50 soon. I could be her mom. How can we be sisters?”
Lina’s true age surprised the salesperson. She then responded, “Then you must be mother and daughter. No wonder you look alike! But madam, you are in great shape!”
“We look alike?” Lina looked to the mirror behind the showcase, taking a good look at Ling Tianya, who was standing next to her, and herself.
“You do!” The salesperson continued, “Your eyes look rather alike! Both so bright, like they could talk. Your lips look alike, too! The shapes of your faces are the same! Both so tiny. Why? You don’t think so?”
Lina never thought about it before. Now when the salesperson mentioned it, looking at Ling Tianya and herself in the mirror, Lina did think they looked somewhat similar.
Ling Tianya chuckled when she heard the salesperson. “If so, I feel a connection with President Li. Maybe we were mother and daughter in our last lives.”
Heard that, the salesperson knew she had jumped to the wrong conclusion. She looked to Ling Tianya and Lina and apologized, “So you are not mother and daughter. I shouldn’t have said that. But you two do look somewhat similar.”
Then, the salesperson went over to check on their bags.
Ling Tianya let go of Lina’s arm and went to have a look at the clothes. She picked out one and looked in the mirror.
Lina stood there, stunned. She felt something was missing around her arm, as well as something missing in her heart.
“You like that one?” Lina looked at the clothes in Ling Tianya’s hand. She frowned and said, “But I don’t think it suits you.”
Ling Tianya shook her head and said, “No, it’s not for me. I just thought it might look good on my mother. Oh, I meant my husband’s mother—my mother-in-law. I want to buy it for her. I think she’ll like it.”
Lina looked at the price tag.
Well, that’s quite something.
“You are really nice to your mother-in-law,” Lina said, smiling.
“That’s because my mother-in-law is nice to me, too,” Ling Tianya said as if that was natural.
“What about your mother then? If you are so nice to your mother-in-law, you must be even better to your real mother.” Somehow, when Lina said that, she felt something inside.
Lina was waiting for Ling Tianya’s response; however, Ling Tianya seemed to lose her good mood, as her smile shone less bright.
