Lin Ye's inner thoughts left Bibi Dong feeling uneasy.
They also deeply shocked Qian Renxue.
She truly knew nothing about what had happened back then.
No one in Spirit Hall had ever told her, and her grandfather never mentioned it.
So all she had known growing up was that her mother hated her.
Her mother had never fulfilled any of her responsibilities as a parent.
At first, she had thought she must have done something wrong.
But as she grew older, she realized that she had done nothing wrong.
Her mother had simply hated her from the very beginning.
She was confused and could not understand why.
Even when she asked her grandfather, she received no answer.
A mother's love?
She had truly never experienced it.
That was why she envied Hu Liena, and even resented her a little.
It was also why she had come to the Heaven Dou Empire.
Watching her own mother treat someone else's child so well in Spirit Hall had truly hurt.
Her feelings toward Bibi Dong were complicated.
She wanted her mother's affection and approval.
Yet at the same time, she hated her.
Only now, after learning the truth through Lin Ye's inner thoughts, did she finally understand.
It really was not because she had done anything wrong.
Her very birth had been a mistake.
If her father had not forced himself on her mother, she would never have come into this world.
Her mother refused to see her, and even hated her, because she was afraid of remembering that dark ordeal.
At that moment, she seemed to understand her mother.
But...
Why did she have to hate me?
I couldn't choose how I was born!
As these thoughts crossed her mind, Qian Renxue's emotions began to unravel.
She lowered her head and clenched