Matthias nodded, then scratched the back of his head, looking a little embarrassed.

“This is my first time picking out a birthday gift for a girl. I wasn’t sure what to get, so I asked my aunt, and she said girls usually like clothes, bags, or jewelry. I noticed your neck looked a little empty, so I made you a necklace.”

Chelsea lowered her gaze and immediately noticed the small wounds on Matthias’s fingers.

Even though he wasn’t wearing band-aids, she could tell his skin had been cut and scraped in multiple places.

As a jade carving artist herself, she knew exactly how those injuries happened.

Matthias, as if sensing...