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57. BREAKFAST AT DAHL'S MANSION
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Breakfast at Dahl's mansion.
It had been a week since Vivian had started living in the mansion, and she noticed that all the members of the Dahl family always came to breakfast in the morning, and the situation was different from how some of the family members would skip dinner at night.
She didn't know if that was some unwritten rule in the mansion, but she could only silently let herself flow along with the current as she didn't want to cause trouble for herself.
Perhaps the only person who didn't always join in on breakfast was the young master of the mansion, but that was because that man was on a business trip for five days until two days ago. Steen had been eating breakfast with his family the last two days, and it was the same this morning.
It had been a week since Vivian had started living in the mansion, but she still found everything around her foreign. Her father-in-law sometimes treated her as if she was invisible, and her brother-in-law alway
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