"Could you, perhaps, call me 'mom'?" Mrs. Xia Ning carefully asked, her eyes full of a greedy longing as she gazed at her.
Forgive her for she had missed her so desperately, dreaming for her to call her "mom".
"I..." Xia Ningxing hesitated before she said, "It's possible, but the body I occupy now is someone else's after all, and the parents and relatives of this body have been very kind to me, so I can only call you that when no one else is around."
She had, after all, taken over Mrs. Xia's daughter's body, and Mrs. Xia had raised her for so many years; she couldn't simply cast her aside now that she had found her mother from another space-time.
Nor would she ever confront Mrs. Xia with the truth, for there is no pain greater in this world than a mother losing her child.
She would never let Mrs. Xia endure such pain.
She is Mrs. Xia's daughter, her daughter for a lifetime!
Of course, she is Mrs. Xia Ning's as well.
