In the woods, Skye hesitantly asked Jiaying, "Y-you're my mother? Is that right?"
Doubt and resistance filled Skye's eyes, but so did a hope that had been building for years. From the day she was born, Skye had never lived anywhere steadily for more than two years. Every time she thought she'd found a home, something bad happened.
Friends she made at the orphanage would soon disappear. After she was adopted, one mishap after another would send her back to the Orphanage.
That life had given her one extraordinary skill: keeping everyone at arm's length. She was even better at it than she was at hacking.
That was why Luo Xia had to save her life again and again before this girl, who had been so alone and helpless, found herself growing attached to him. Perhaps it was a little unhealthy compared with love at first sight, but to Skye, it was the happiest thing in her memories.
The sudden appearance of her parents shattered the fantasies Skye had built about her past. After all, she'd never imagined her father would be a killer who could turn into a bloodthirsty monster at any moment.
Faced with this woman claiming to be her mother, Skye's first instinct was to resist—and to demand answers. She wanted to know exactly what had happened back then. How could her mother have endured being separated from her own child for all those years without doing anything?
"You were born on July 2, on a hot night. Before you were born, I even had your father clean up the house. Later, he ran to a neighbor's to get a car so he could take me to the hospital, but he didn't speak Chinese, so everything turned into a mess," Jiaying said gently to Skye.
"But you