"Back then, Gu Lian's family background was far better than Shen Yonghui's, so my parents hoped that I could be with Gu Lian. To make me give up, they fabricated that lie. You might not know what it's like to lose something and then regain it. I felt like a moth that knew the flame was right there, yet still flew towards it without hesitation."
Zhu Huan's expression was indescribably complex.
She first bowed her head and laughed self-deprecatingly for a while, then sighed long and said, "In the many years that followed, I would often ask myself if I would regret it, and the answer was... yes."
"I regretted it, yet at the time I stubbornly wanted to go with Shen Yonghui. My foster parents threatened me with their lives, refusing to allow me to divorce Gu Lian, and advised me that there was still Xici, that I couldn't abandon him and go off with someone else. I was torn, hesitated, and even didn't dare to look into Xici's eyes. As his mother, I..."
