Chapter 20 Can I Have a Word With You?

• The university was about an hour’s bus ride away from her place. When she reached her stop, Lin Xiaoxue didn’t go home immediately and headed for the supermarket instead.
• She hadn’t told her parents she was coming home, so she thought she’d better buy some groceries first, in case her mother realized she didn’t have enough to cook dinner and would then have to make a trip to the supermarket.
• When she reached her doorstep, she was about to pull her keys out when she could hear some people talking inside her house, followed by her mother’s laughter. Her mother hadn’t laughed so happily in a long time.