Love is like a dream

It was a stormy night in Amber City. The wind blew fiercely and rain fell in torrents. A young woman was soaked to the skin while she struggled with the security guards outside the rich neighborhood of Silk Bay. Even though the rain was pouring and the wind was blowing hard, her distressed cries could be heard from a distance.

"Please let me in. It's a life-and-death matter. We can't wait any longer! Please!"

"I'm sorry, Miss, but we've never seen you before. We can't allow strangers to come in!"

"I'm an old friend of Mr. Raymond. He lives here. Please tell him I'm Susie Su. He will know who I am and why I'm here!"

"Alright, Miss Su. Please wait here for a moment. I'll go check with him right now."

Susie Su was shivering with cold in the pouring rain. Every house in this magnificent residential area was built as a detached villa. Every family who stayed there was either rich or noble. Susie Su's appearance didn't match the high status of this neighborhood at all. No wonder nobody believed her words.

Not long after the security guard went in, he came out with a message that brought despair to Susie Su's heart. "Miss Su, Mr. Raymond said he doesn't know a woman named Susie Su."

Those words struck her like a thunderbolt.

Raymond Leng had told the guard that he didn't even know a woman named Susie Su...

This sentence was like a sharp knife cutting through her heart!

But Susie Su couldn't give up so easily. Her daughter was lying in the hospital, desperately in need of treatment. She had to talk to Raymond Leng. He was her only hope!

She clenched her fists and was about to rush inside, but those well-trained security guards stopped her before she could take another step forward.

"Please let me in! I'm begging you! I must talk to Raymond!"

"Miss Su, I suggest that you don't waste your time anymore. Every month we have to drive out several women like you who want to marry a rich man! But you're not like most of them. They aren't usually as poor as you are!"

That was true. That neighborhood was so magnificent that Susie Su's clothes were completely out of place.

But who would believe the truth? As a matter of fact, five years ago, she herself was living in this magnificent neighborhood! At that time, Raymond Leng was the one who didn't belong there and wanted to get in!

Susie Su couldn't help but remember the conversation she had with her little daughter in the hospital. "Mom, am I dying?"

"Silly girl, you're only four years old. How could you possibly be dying? You will live long, like the grannies in the yard, until you are eighty or ninety years old!"

"But I heard from the nurse that my illness is incurable! They said I would be dead in two months."

Holding her skinny, weak, but still cute little daughter in her arms, Susie Su's heart was breaking. "Believe me, darling, I will definitely make sure you survive!"

"Yes, I trust you, Mom! Mom will protect me! After my illness is gone, I will go back to the kindergarten to play games with Miss Mia. There are many friends waiting for me to go back and play with them! Mom, I must live on! I want to be with Mom forever!"

Her daughter's pitiful words made tears well up on Susie Su's face.

But there was another burden on her mind, and it was even worse.