Emily Parker pricked up her ears to listen to the sibling duo chatting. Their mutual teasing and bantering interaction, where a slight from one side is met with a comeback from the other, while being observed by Emily, elicited in her a sense of envy.
Emily had been an only child until her teenage years, having grown up in the countryside.
Then after her mother passed away, she was sent to the Capital, and nominally gained a sister, Sophie Parker, who was close to her in age, and as such one would expect them to get along quite well.
In public, Sophie pretended they had a good relationship.
But privately, they were like cats and dogs, absolutely incompatible.
It was even difficult for them to sit at the same dining table.
During the Parker family's mealtimes, Emily would often be eating alone with a bowl in the kitchen, no different from the household servants.
Nothing like Carlos and his sister.
Upon hearing this, Carlos's eyes darkened.
