Chapter 296

As Christmas approached, all shops, decorated with lanterns and streamers, offered discounts to
attract customers.

"Christina, what are you going to buy for Christmas?"

The weather was fine today, and the sun was shining brightly.The winter sun was not dazzling, and it
only made people feel warm.

The two women were walking side by side on the shopping street.

Crystal was light-footed and in a good mood.But the other woman was absent-minded.

Christina hesitated and asked, "What did you say?"

Crystal found her weird today.

She glanced at Christina suspiciously and asked, "Christina, who are you texting to on the WhatsApp?
Your phone keeps ringing."

A flash of guilt went across Christina's beautiful face.She said hurriedly, "Nothing important.It's just a
normal friend."

She stuffed her phone into her bag, zipped it up, and the WhatsApp prompt faded.

Christina collected herself, looked around the shops, and casually changed the subject.

"The Christmas turkey is actually not delicious.I'm more willing to have roast duck and goose."

Crystal was puzzled and she said, "I didn't talk about the turkey.I just said that you behaved strangely
these days."



For example, this morning, Crystal called Christina to go shopping together, and she heard Christina
muttering on the other end of the phone that she seemed to have quarreled with someone and was
shouting to poison that person.

Christina was embarrassed by her stare.

She quickly changed the subject, "Did you say that you wanted to go to the toy store to buy a gift for
Chandler's son?"

When Chandler's son was mentioned, Crystal became interested.Not happy, she was furious!

"That little rat.I kindly asked him what he wanted for Christmas.He dared to despise my tastes."

Christina had fully the same feeling and echoed angrily, "You're right.How dare these stinky men to ask
for so much? What a pain in the ass!"

"What? She said a pain in the ass?"

Crystal was dumbfounded.

Christina, a beauty, even said such vulgar words.

"Who provoked you?"

Crystal was suddenly interested, but Miss Dickens obviously didn't want to say anything more.

Her beautiful face was flushed with anger.

But she seemed not that angry.

"I remember a big toy store over there"



Crystal had always been considerate and did not continue this topic.

Instead, she took her hand and went in the opposite direction.

This international chain toy store was very big, and there were all kinds of toys for all ages.

The store was decorated like a fairy tale world, colorful and attractive to kids.

On the right was a dazzling display of girls’ toys.

There were lace toys, barbies, and other cute plush toys.

"The boy's toys are on the left.Please follow me."

The shop assistant said with a smile and led them there.

The left part was decorated in light blue.

Christina was very surprised to see all kinds of toys, including electric cars, huge Transformers models,
and the latest Al electronic pet dog.

"Buy this! I want this!" Christina was excited.

She thought that all boys liked high-tech gadgets.

These electronic dogs didn't have fur or pee.

Moreover, they were artificial intelligence.

Crystal glanced at this familiar dog.

She said with mixed feelings, "Geoffrey already has one."



That dog was bought by the Stephenson family elders for their grandson.

Geoffrey was very happy to receive it.

But seven days later, the young master threw it directly into the locker, and said before leaving,
"Retarded dog."

Crystal taught the little guy a lesson for this.She blamed him for talking nonsense and calling it a
retarded dog.

"But it only knows a few instructions.I don't like this kind of pet.It is retarded."

Geoffrey retorted stubbornly.

Crystal didn't know how to refute his righteous words for a moment.

Chandler, his father, watched this scene and walked over to pat his son's head.

He nodded and said, "It is"

"These toys are not suitable for Mr.Stephenson and Geoffrey" Crystal looked discouraged.

As she spoke, she turned away and looked around at the shelves full of toys.

"It's not easy to buy a Christmas present for Geoffrey"

The shop assistant asked her, intended to sell her some products.

"Miss, how old is your son?"

Son? Crystal's blood froze.She didn't give birth to that mischievous Geoffrey.

"I don't get married.He is my friend's son.He's almost six years old."



The shop assistant felt sorry for that.

She heard them chatting and thought she was talking about her own son in such an intimate tone.

"What is his personality? Is he introverted or extroverted? Every child has their own inner world, so
they like different toys.I can introduce them to you."

Crystal didn't know how to answer her.

Was Geoffrey an extrovert or an introvert? Suddenly, Crystal was confused.

Geoffrey didn't like to go out.But if he was introverted, how could he be so insidious? That was
impossible.

"What about Lego? This is fun."

Christina liked this place very much.

Her childhood toys were all the toys for boys.

This place reminded her of that memory.

She walked quickly to building block shelves to her right hand and browsed Lego.

"I heard that your last advertisement chose a model named Renee.Christina was sifted out in the last
round."

Christina was holding a box of Lego blocks in her hand.

Facing the shelf, she pricked up her ears and heard someone mention her name.

The voice sounded very annoying.



"I also heard that she spent a lot of effort on this opportunity.The director blamed her several times for
being too stupid.Poor girl.She worked so hard and won nothing.In the end, she still couldn't get the
advertisement from her own company.Ooops, it seems that she and Patrick are completely over."

The shrill female voice obviously sounded gloating.

Damn it! Christina stood up straight, clutching the box with both hands and holding her anger back in
order not to scold in return.

"Erica? It's none of your business that I failed!" Christina thought.

Christina didn't want to cause any trouble.

She wanted to wait for them to pass by quietly, but then Erica asked, "Barbara, what's wrong with you?
You should be very happy to see Miss Dickens be sifted out.Didn't you deliberately cause trouble for
her during the primary election? What eyes do not see is regarded as clean."

"Well, I thought that Christina would win the advertisement.It was really unexpected."

Barbara was by her side.Her voice seemed to contain other feelings besides ridicule.

"Why are you here!" Erica suddenly raised her voice and shouted.

Her voice became even more shrill and unpleasant to hear.Christina thought that she was exposed.

While she turned around with a vigilant look, she realized that Erica was shouting at Crystal who was
walking down the aisle.


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