"Ascendants" could never escape the issue of complications, and Xie Qingyan was no exception.
That said, compared to other A-class "Ascendants," her complication was not particularly severe.
It was nothing more than occasionally blurting out obscenities she could not control, with little impact on her daily behavior.
But the problem was her status—being the chairwoman of a major corporation, having words that even Sin City residents would be ashamed to say slip from her mouth now and then could be quite fatal.
Just imagine it happening in public, at something like a press conference... In fact, her first episode had happened at a similar occasion. If she had not reacted quickly enough, it nearly would have caused a huge disaster.
So from then on, she paid close attention to her words and actions and refused to let her image be ruined because of it.
She had paid quite a price for that—everyone knew that the higher an "Ascendant's" level, the harder their complications were to suppress.
At first, she had remained vigilant at all times. Later, she took medication... She had even sought out a psychiatrist and used hypnotherapy to suppress it, forcibly changing those words into somewhat milder versions.
By now, she could control it quite well.
Yet even so, she had failed to hold it in when it came to Xu Shi. It was undeniably a loss of composure, born from her rather complicated feelings toward him.
They had grown up together, and their relationship had certainly not been bad before. In fact, when she had heard in her youth that she would become his bride one day, Xie Qingyan had looked forward to it for a time.
But she truly could not stand the things Xu Shi had done later on, and she gradually chose to distance