"What happened? I heard you moved away back then, didn't know where you went. I asked so many people, and nobody knew where you had gone," Qiao Xia asked with concern.
"Let's not dwell on the past. To speak of it brings nothing but bitter tears. I've even changed my name; I am now called Xu Ai."
Xu Ai, originally named Tang Ai, was Qiao Xia's childhood playmate. She often stayed at her grandmother's house, and Xu Ai's home was next to her grandmother's. Xu Ai was four years older than Qiao Xia and often played with Qiao Xia and Qiao Dong together. She called Qiao Xia Da Qiao and Qiao Dong Xiao Qiao, and she often joked that the sisters were reincarnations of the legendary beauties, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, from ancient times.
