Ding Muhan had once said that the reason he used to hate her was because he hated people who had possessed everything from the moment they were born.
Su Qiao felt that she was far more wronged than just a little.
She was so wronged that snow would soon be falling in June.
"You want to be an orphan too?"
Gu Xue laughed again.
"Heh, what's so frightening about being an orphan? As long as you're good-looking enough, hardworking enough, and capable enough, none of it will be a problem."
Su Qiao thought for a moment, then nodded. "I agree with you."
Gu Xue looked at her beautiful face and enviable figure. "Do you know? The first time I saw you, I was extremely jealous of you."
"Your beautiful looks, your tall figure, and your respectable career. You've never had to worry about money, and you've never been dragged down by your family."
"But what I envied most wasn't your looks, your figure, your career, or your abilities. It was that you lived more freely than I did, without fear of anything."
"I knew what I wanted from a very young age, and I had always worked toward it. But I never expected that the first thing to defeat me would be my ugly face, and the second would be the web my family had constantly wrapped tightly around me."
"I struggled and worked hard. I desperately wanted to break free of all this, but in the end, I failed. I was trapped in that web by so-called family ties, unable to break free no matter what I did."
Su Qiao looked at this strong-willed, resilient, and intelligent woman, and suddenly felt that it was a pity.
"Actually, you weren't trapped by family ties. You were trapped by your own