She was upstairs sleeping! She hadn't woken up yet. Would you like to see them? I'll go wake them." Chu Tianyi pointed toward the second floor and got up to call them.
By now, her gaze had grown ever wider, while he was like a wisp of cloud at the edge of the sky, gazing at her from afar, as insignificant as an ant.
"That's more like it! Everyone misses you." Chu Tianyi glanced back at Lei Ce.
The two grown men were both completely baffled. How could she even connect those things? But the way she analyzed it, it didn't seem entirely wrong.
Children raised in single-parent households were often troubled inside. Take her, for instance. She probably wouldn't ever be able to let go of her hatred for her mother. She understood her father's concerns. It was precisely because she'd thought of that back then that she'd chosen Lin Xiangyu and endured this year of misery.
She was in pain, and she was exhausted. She wanted it all to end as soon as possible, but even if it ended once, there would be another time. It was as if there wasn't a patch of unbroken flesh left on her body. Just as he'd said, once it was dirty, she might as well throw it away.
It was already dusk when he arrived at the prince's manor. He happened to arrive just as He Zhizhou was returning from the palace. Ming Yue had ordered a hot pot prepared, planning to admire the snow and enjoy the meal with He Zhizhou on this snowy day, when Huang Hongfei, looking like a snowman, suddenly appeared before them.
"Then what?" Xue Qing blinked in surprise. A clap of thunder suddenly split through her muddled thoughts, and she realized with a start that