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Remembering their elegant yet sharp–tongued professor, her smile faded slightly: “I saw in the news that the professor came back for the celebration.
How is the old man?”
“He’s well, just extremely annoyed by his disgraceful students like us showing up before him every now and then.”
Freya laughed, nostalgic for the days when their mentor would press them to write papers.
Johnny: “Come back, Freya.” Freya gripped her teacup tighter, took a deep breath, and nodded: “Alright.”
She had been studying artificial intelligence since childhood. She truly loved this field.
She had already abandoned her dreams for six or seven years because of her love for Matteo.
After being away for so long, catching up might take considerable time. But she believed that with effort, it wasn’t
too late.
Johnny asked: “When can you return?”
“I need to wait for someone to take over my current work, it might take some time.”
“That’s fine, there’s no
”
she was coming back, what was a little more wait?
After chatting a while longer, Johnny checked the time and said: “My team introduced me to a genius in algorithms. They just returned to the country recently. We’re meeting shortly – since you’re here, why not join us?”
Freya shook her head:
“Alright then.”
familiar with your team members. Maybe next time.”
Just as Johnny left, Freya saw Matteo’s sister, Maria, approaching.
She had seen her in the news too. But she hadn’t expected to run into her here by chance.
She greeted her: “Hi Maria.”
Maria didn’t respond, frowning at her: “Why are you here?”
“It’s T University’s celebration today, I came back to look around.”
If Freya hadn’t mentioned it, Maria would have forgotten she was also a T University graduate.
But besides current faculty and students, those returning today were mostly invited honorary alumni.
“What was a nobody like her doing here making a scene?” Well, never mind.
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As long as she didn’t talk nonsense outside and embarrass Matteo’s family, she couldn’t be bothered with her.
With this thought, Maria got straight to the point: “David says he wants to eat your cooking. I’ll have someone send him to you and Matteo’s place later.”
David is Maria’s son, a year or two older than Isabella. Maria and her husband had a strained relationship, and she had barely supervised her child in recent years due to work.
Now their child had grown increasingly rebellious, and when she tried to manage him, she found she could hardly control him.
Learning that her son liked Freya’s cooking, Maria had been sending him to her and Matteo’s whenever possible these past two years.
Except for the old madam, no one in Matteo’s family took her seriously.
Children at that age were expert copycats.
Though Maria’s son liked her cooking, he looked down on her as an aunt, treating her almost like a servant when he visited.
Previously, for Matteo’s sake, Freya had devoted herself to caring for Maria’s child, not taking the child’s disrespect to heart.
But now that she and Matteo were preparing for divorce, she no longer wanted to compromise herself for his sake.
So Freya directly refused: “Sorry, Maria, I’m busy tomorrow.”
Since she was returning to her professional field, she would focus her time on what truly mattered.
After the divorce, she would have no connection to either Matteo or Maria.
She wouldn’t waste her time on them
anymore.
Maria hadn’t expected Freya to refuse. After all, Freya had often lowered herself to please Matteo’s family for Matteo’s sake.
However, Maria didn’t think much of it.
Freya had never refused her before, so when she said she was busy, Maria assumed she must truly be occupied–how else could she pass up an opportunity to curry favor?
Still, she wasn’t pleased: “With neither Matteo nor Bella by your side, what important matters could you possibly have?”
Freya couldn’t help but laugh bitterly inside. All these years, she had abandoned herself, centering her life around Matteo and their daughter, constantly revolving around them.
Such an assessment from Maria was indeed fair. But she wouldn’t be like this anymore.
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Just as she was about to respond, several people approached them. “Maria!”
They were clearly looking for Maria, Seeing Freya, they looked her over and asked: “Maria, who is this?”
Maria didn’t introduce her as her sister–in–law, just said coldly: “A friend,”
“Oh, a friend…”
They, like Maria, were all distinguished guests at T University’s celebration.
When they first saw Maria talking to someone, they thought it must be someone important.
Now, seeing Maria’s attitude toward Freya, aside from some who couldn’t help but glance twice at her beautiful figure and long, fair legs, the others didn’t spare her another look.
They flocked around María and quickly walked away. Maria’s refusal to acknowledge her as a sister–in–law might have hurt Freya in the past.
But now she no longer cared. After María left, she picked up her bag and departed as well.
Past ten that night, Matteo and Isabella’s flight arrived at the airport on schedule.
