After going over the details over what happened during the time they were separated, both girls sat closely together and had smiles on their faces. Even though what they talked about was so dark and disturbing to other people's ears, they couldn't help but feel fortunate to stay alive until the end.

With crossed legs, Yan Xiaorran sat comfortably on the couch as she took a bite of the cookie in her fingers.

"Are you sure that's enough for you?" Alina worriedly asked her. She knew that Yan Xiaoran's appetite was huge and she could easily finish two plates of rice when she's hungry.

Yan Xiaoran nodded her head. After what happened earlier and even though she was hungry, she didn't have the appetite to eat. The cookies on top of the coffee table became her target to replenish her sugar level and energy.

As she was about to lean forward to take some more after finishing one, her collar was slightly pulled downward and revealed a fair skin underneath where a red mark made a quite contrast to her pearly white skin.

And in time, Alina turned to look at her friend and her eyes zoomed in to that mark. At first, she didn't show a reaction nor thought much about it since she guessed it could be from a mosquito bite. However, when she looked some more, the more she became disturbed.

Yan Xiaoran cried out in surprise when Alina suddenly pulled her to turn around and unzipped her dress. "Alina! Can't you see I'm eating?" She complained as her cookie was crushed in her hand when her friend pulled her.

"Bullshit! Who cares about your cookie!" Alina exclaimed. A loud smack sound came after her voice.

"And here I was so worried about you that I even stalked you and erased your traces but who knew you were busy with your love life?"

"I can't believe you still call me your best friend!"

Alina continued to complain with tears in her eyes. Ever since she heard of Yan Xiaoran's released from her informant, she decided to slowly erase her best friend's traces and data so her life outside wouldn't be too harsh when she's in front of other people.

Countless sleepless nights were sacrificed in order for her to delete everything as she waited for Yan Xiaoran to come to her but who knew that old vegetable Robert Qu took her Yan Xiaoran from her.

Because she was away from the country at that time due to her hiding, she had no way to visit her best friend and could only stalk her with the surveillance cameras around her.

And when Yan Xiaoran decided to leave the support of Robert Qu, it was Alina who made sure that no one could follow her by erasing the footages. She planned to meet her best friend after returning to the mainland but not only did Yan Xiaoran disappeared from her surveillance, no trace could pinpoint where she was!

"Bad girl!" She hit her friend's back once again. But because Yan Xiaoran was numb to pain, she didn't get a reaction from her.

Yan Xiaoran was still oblivious as to why Alina was angry at her. The marks that Alina saw in her back, she naturally didn't see it when she was in front of the mirror and only saw the marks in her collarbone and downward.

"Stop hitting me already!" Yan Xiaoran stood up to get away from her fuming friend, "Even though I don't feel pain but it doesn't mean I won't cough up blood with all your hittings!"

She put her hand on her hips and looked down at her friend who continued to look sorrowful as if her candy was stolen from her.

"No! Not my Xiaoran!" Taking a gold of her friend's hands, Alina continued to wail before her eyes turned into slits as she murderously said, "Tell me who did this to you! I swear I'll kill that man!"

Up until now, Yan Xiaoran still had no idea what Alina was talking about until she mentioned the word 'man' and there, she realized what was wrong.

With her back still out in the open, she walked to the floor to ceiling mirror in the wall beside the cabinet and looked at her back. She saw her pale skin in display through the mirror and on top of that, several faint scars were randomly around it.

However, that wasn't what caught her attention.

Along with her scars that looked fainter than how it originally looked in the past, red ambiguous marks were also randomly spread across her back looking like petals of a red rose.

Upon remembering last night's activity with Alexander, her ears started to turn red as her eyes widen in shock.

That rogue!

Not only did he saw her scars after changing her shirt! Alexander actually made sure he left his marks on every part of her body!

She wanted to curse him and beat him up for shamelessly doing this to her but deep inside, her heart was screaming in embarrassment and gleefully smiling at the fact that not only did Alexander kissed her all over her body, he actually didn't think of her body filled with scars unsightly or unappealing.

Besides, she was also at fault for lighting up the fire inside that man and enjoyed every second of their time together.

With a smile slowly ghosting her face, Yan Xiaoran didn't know that her best friend had her eyes on her all this time and saw that smile on her face.

At first, Alina assumed that her best friend was forced by the person who kept her hidden during the time when she was looking for Yan Xiaoran, but upon seeing that red tint on her cheeks and ears, Alina felt relieved.

A knowing smile graced her face as she went to her best friend who was deep in her thoughts.

"Hmm… Seems like someone enjoyed their night yesterday. Hurry, spill the beans to this great godmother."