"I'll pass. I have something important to attend to tonight."
Upon sight of Tuoba Gucheng exiting from the room, she hurriedly ended the call and greeted him, "Goodbye, Your Highness."
Tuoba Gucheng rolled his eyes and walked past her.
Once he reached the door, he turned around to take a glance at her back view and muttered under his breath, "The back view of a woman is always deceptive…"
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Xu Youran sprung up abruptly as cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She opened her palms to find that they were sweaty too.
She had an endless nightmare during her one-hour nap.
It had been a long time since she last dreamed of her biological mother.
In fact, it had been so long that she could not even remember when the last time was.
In the nightmare, her mother died exactly the way she had witnessed when she was younger — she poisoned herself and blood was gushing out of every crevice of her body.
