The woman's earlier words had sounded so convincing, as if she really knew what she was talking about.
The Yuan family had actually believed some of what she said.
Of course, only some of it.
"It's impossible... How could this be..."
The woman murmured, her face full of disbelief. "All the bad things that happened to me were obviously because of Qiqi..."
"Qiqi!"
The woman's voice suddenly rose. "You really don't know?"
"If you didn't do it... what about your friends?"
"Have you made any new friends?"
"Maybe your friend was standing up for you, but you didn't know..."
"Yuan Yuan."
The old woman called out to her daughter anxiously, reaching out to press a hand against her shoulder.
She could feel her daughter trembling beneath her hand.
Her eyes suddenly stung.
What terrible sin had they committed?
How had her daughter come down with some strange illness that the hospital couldn't diagnose?
"Eldest Sister!"
The young man murmured, his brow furrowed.
It wasn't that he couldn't understand how she felt.
But relentlessly hounding a child... it was just too ugly.
Still, as he watched his sister on the verge of breaking down, he opened his mouth, then found he couldn't bring himself to reproach her.
"It's impossible. It's impossible..."
The woman didn't believe it.
Before she'd had the nightmare, she could have told herself she was overthinking things.
But that nightmare... How could it have nothing to do with Qiqi?
"Have you made any new friends?"
Since nearly a year had passed before her health began to fail, she thought it must have been a friend the child had recently made.
The girl must have told her about how she was treated at home.
And her friend had stood up for her, taking action against