"I look exactly like her, right?"
The woman curled her lips into a half-smile as she looked at Nan Xian.
Nan Xian was speechless for a long time, staring at her face, "You...you're not Ruizhu?"
The woman didn't answer. She turned around and sat back on the sofa, leaning lazily into the soft leather backrest, and patted the spot next to her.
"sit."
Nan Xian's gaze swept between her and her hand, she pursed her lips, and with a confused and wary heart, she sat down on the single sofa opposite her.
With a gentle twist of her fingers, the woman held a slender cigarette between her fingertips.
The cigarette ignited without a flame. She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled a puff of white smoke.
Her face became blurred in the smoke, vaguely overlapping with Ruizhu's smiling face behind the teacup.
"Who are you?" Nan Xian asked bluntly. "Ruizhu's twin sister?"
The woman said, "Who I am is not important. What is important is that we—" She tapped Nan Xian with her cigarette, "have the same goal."
Nan Xian's eyes flickered slightly, and she deliberately laughed it off: "Oh—you also want to buy something from her?"
The woman paused for a moment, then chuckled softly as if amused by the answer, and stubbed out her cigarette in her palm.
"You're here to find her, and so am I."
Nan Xian remained silent.
The woman leaned forward, resting her chin on her hand, her eyes fixed on Nan Xian without blinking.
Nan Xian finally noticed the difference between her and Rui Zhu on her face—
Ruizhu's eyes were as clear as a spring, but the woman in front of her had eyes full of burning ambition.
The woman tilted her head and asked a question that seemed completely unrelated to the current topic of conversation—
"Guess what the highlight of tonight's auction is?"
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