"I'm a guest," Corinne replied.
Anya had a slight look of disgust as she said, "A guest? Who'd invite you as a guest to my house?"
Corinne smiled. "Grandpa Cedric and Grandma Beatrice invited me here. It'd be rude to refuse, so here I am."
'What?!' Anya asked in shock, "My grandparents invited you here? Were you the one who saved my grandpa's life?"
Corinne said flatly, "I wouldn't call myself a savior, but I am the guest that they invited to your home."
Anya could not accept that the guest she had dressed up so grandly for was Corinne—the person she hated most!
'How did Corinne become Grandpa's savior? It couldn't have been such a coincidence!' Anya thought for a moment, looked skeptically at Corinne, and speculated, "Was this your plan all along? Did you set my grandfather up and pretend to save him just so you could get close to him?"
"You're thinking too much, Miss Anya. I have no reason to get close to your grandfather, and I don't have the time to hatch a plot against an old man."
Anya frowned and stared gloomily at Corinne. She then continued walking down the stairs and stood a few steps above Corinne. Anya wanted to use her height to glare condescendingly at Corinne from above and suppress the latter's calmness.
Corinne laughed. "What's wrong? Are you going to roll down the stairs and blame it on me, or will you slap yourself a couple of times and say that I was the culprit? Perhaps you have another new move up your sleeve?"
Corinne removed her arm calmly from Anya's grip and distanced herself from Anya. "No thanks. I have something else to do right now."
She had always disliked physical contact with other people, and her dislike became much stronger when it came to Anya, whom she had a bad impression of.
Anya was aggrieved, and her eyes turned red. "Are you still that reluctant to forgive me? I swear to you! I genuinely wish to change my relationship with you and become your friend instead of being your enemy. I want to give you a tour of my house! You might think it's pointless, but our house is centuries-old and has history, so it's worth seeing every room."
'Every room? Does that include the room where my mother used to live?' Corinne could not help but become a little interested when she heard that, and she did not want to miss that opportunity regardless of what Anya's intentions were.
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