Cora freezes up, looking to Yifei in a panic because why can’t she speak English? But the terror in her face is apparently unsurprising to Paisley, who drops her hand and turns back to the man. “Does she really not have any American friends?” she says. “No one in this whole building is American,” Ryan mumbles. Yifei ignores them, opening the fridge. “She thinks I can’t speak English,” she says, still in Mandarin, and it takes Cora a moment to process it, so unused to hearing anything but Auntie Zeng’s slow speech. “My old coworker who sublets me this place set us up as roommates. She assumed I
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