69 Epilogue (2)

With the permission of her father, Xue Liena managed to get one of the dresses her mother left behind from one of her old collections. It was a wedding gown that needed to be re-stitched and mended. 

Xue Liena had woven milk-white threads of lace, with beads in the shape of roses with vines and thorns. She collected all the materials beforehand, envisioning what it may look like worn down the aisle. 

With calloused fingers and beads of sweat treading down her face, Xue Liena managed to finish the piece. She rose the dress up in the air, gazing at it in awe, astonished by the detail. She did not take much out of what her mother had created before; she only added onto it. 

She gently placed it in a vinyl garment bag, zipping it slowly, trying to avoid any of the threads catching onto the zipper. Then quickly, she ran out of her bedroom, from the house Long Huojin gave her father. In the home, only she and Xue Gao lived in it.