Unexpectedly, the shop did have apple juice.
Su Li ordered a glass and casually picked a few desserts that didn’t look too greasy.
You Xue took a few sips from her cup.
The sweet and sour liquid slid down her throat, making her feel quite relaxed.
She thought that apples seemed to be hard to make taste bad no matter how you prepared them.
In that Garden of Eden, the forbidden fruit that Eve and Adam ate must have been an apple, right?
If that’s the case, their actions could actually be forgiven, because few people can resist the temptation of apples.
As she drank, she could hear Su Li speak.
“I’ve already talked a lot about my past. How about Alice also share something about herself?”
“Me?”
At that moment, Alice was wrestling with a muffin, and a flash of surprise flickered in her eyes.
“Is that not okay?”
“It’s not that it’s not okay. It’s not like it’s some secret that can’t be told.”
Alice’s words were a little hesitant.
“You Xue, do you want to know too?”
She asked tentatively.
You Xue thought for a moment and finally nodded.
Although she knew about the stories Alice was involved in during the main plot from the original story, the original had never delved into the past, so You Xue was quite interested in these untold histories.
Alice set down her fork, and it made a faint clinking sound against the edge of the plate.
“Since you’re both interested, there’s no harm in telling you.”
She picked up her cup and took a sip, as if organizing her thoughts, then slowly began to speak.
Alice paused here for a moment.
“I am an illegitimate child.”
You Xue was a little surprised inside.
When reading the original story, she had always thought Alice was a genuine noble lady, just that she didn’t want to reveal her identity, so she never spoke of it.
But looking at Alice’s expression, she didn’t seem particularly sad.
Alice continued.
“My mother was a maid in the West family. Before I was born, she was driven out of the mansion. I grew up in a small house on the outskirts of the city. Every month, someone would send a sum of money, just enough for my mother and me to survive, but never more. Originally, I might never have known my background in this life, but then I awakened my supernatural ability.”
Alice took a gentle breath.
“And my supernatural ability level completely surpassed that of the other children in the family, so I was brought back to the family. From a ragged refugee to the noble heir of the family, it was only the span of one night.”
You Xue nodded.
In the world of supernatural abilities, what kept a family together was never blood relations, but talent and power.
With talent, one could obtain more family resources, grow faster, and make the family’s strength even greater.
“But I didn’t like it there. The relatives who had originally ignored me suddenly became enthusiastic, but I knew what was hidden beneath that enthusiasm, so I hated it there.”
“What happened next?”
Su Li asked.
“At that time, my mother fell ill, the kind that couldn’t be cured. I wanted her to have a better life in her final moments.”
Alice’s voice dropped slightly.
“So at that time, I didn’t leave the family. I used the family’s money to hire the best doctors and buy the best medicine, but in the end, my mother still passed away. At the funeral, there was only me. Those hypocrites, those sycophants, those heartless people—they wanted to come, but I drove them all away.”
Speaking up to this point, she actually smiled, a small, sarcastic smile.
Her tone became much lighter.
“After my mother left, I had no attachment to the family anymore, so I gave up the position of family heir and secretly came to this city alone.”
“They probably also knew that once they didn’t stop me at the beginning, it would be very hard to get me back later, so they haven’t contacted me since.”
Then she blinked, and a mischievous glint flashed in her emerald eyes.
“Before that, I also took a considerable amount of pocket money from the family vault… Hmm, if spent frugally, it would be enough for an ordinary person to live a prosperous life.”
“I’ve never seen that much money in my life.”
Hearing this, Su Li was a bit astonished.
Alice glanced at Su Li and smiled.
“I said it’s only enough for an ordinary person to live a lifetime. As a superpowered individual, if you buy ability crystals or those engraved weapons, this money will be spent quickly. But we’re not just machines that spend money; our supernatural ability itself is our wealth.”
Su Li nodded, thinking about the new ability he had awakened during that critical moment, and couldn’t help feeling a bit excited.
“I will also earn more money…”
He wanted to live a better life, to have a better life.
You Xue looked at Su Li, just thinking that his expression when serious was very handsome.
After some hesitation, she still said what she wanted to say.
“Keep it up, you can definitely do it.”
You Xue’s tone was more natural than she had imagined.
She truly believed that such a future would come true, because she had made enough changes to steer the story onto a better track.
Su Li shifted his gaze to You Xue’s face, and could see the unwavering, unhesitating light in her heterochromatic eyes.
“Mm, I will do it.”
The voice was not loud, but the tone was exceptionally firm.
Alice watched the two who were interacting cautiously, smiled slightly, and said in a low voice.
“Anyway, I feel now that the choices I made were not wrong. It’s precisely because I came to this city that I could meet interesting people like you.”
Saying this, the three chatted for a while longer, but most of the time Alice was the one talking.
Because the other two seemed to have their own reserve.
Even though they both had things they wanted to say, they always kept them hidden in their hearts.
In Alice’s view, the relationship between the two wasn’t bad; rather, they cared too much about each other.
They always considered the other’s feelings, and every word they wanted to say to the other, they thought about whether they might say something wrong.
It was precisely because of this carefulness that there seemed to be such a deep rift.
Although Alice was actually not very willing for Su Li to get close to more girls, the way the two interacted was so clumsily cute that it even made her anxious.
Additionally, she thought You Xue was also quite cute.
Although she seemed a bit cold on the surface, it seemed she was just not good at expressing emotions…
In fact, You Xue had a personality that was quite willing to accommodate others.
Anyway, Alice really couldn’t stand to watch anymore, so she came up with an idea.
Seeing that the desserts on the table were mostly finished, Alice spoke up.
“Next, where should we go?”
You Xue shook her head.
Su Li also had no plans.
After all, his previous impoverished life really left him unable to think of entertainment options in the city.
Seeing that the other two had no ideas, Alice smiled slightly and then said.
“How about we go to a haunted house?”