Few people knew that she was not actually called Madam Wang, nor was she Xiao Dan's mother.
She had a name: Wu Qiurui... a family born in autumn.
Fate had blessed her with extraordinary beauty, but not with the strength to protect it... After her family fell into decline, Wang Jufu seemed to be her only chance to settle the family's enormous debts.
--Xiaorui, do you think you could... Please, consider it your mother begging you. Can you really bear to watch your father...
--Don't kneel...
She married, in a rather disgraceful manner—pregnant before marriage.
The family's debts were cleared, but her father committed suicide in the second month after the child was born... Not long afterward, her mother followed him.
Her mother had truly loved her father deeply, to the point that... she herself seemed to become dispensable.
Perhaps her mother had thought that, as the Wang family's daughter-in-law, her life would surely be good... To her, she too seemed to have become dispensable.
She would not become like her mother.
She would not force her own daughter to do things she disliked.
--Mom, do I have to go to Cuiyun Residence?
--Why?
--I don't want to.
But what else could she do?
Hong Hai needed a playmate. Countless wealthy families in Huoyun City would have envied such an opportunity beyond their reach.
--If you don't like it, then don't go to Cuiyun Residence tomorrow.
--But Grandpa and Dad...
--I'll talk to them!
Wang Baiwan was the principal of Huoyun High, and Wang Jufu was also part of the school. Through Wang Baiwan's hands, far too many elites had gone out into the world.
They were not merely members of the wealthy Wang family; in outsiders' eyes, they were also a scholarly family.
But few people knew that,