"What a cursed entanglement..."
The teacher clenched his fists and heaved an enormous sigh.
A Yan looked at her mother in disbelief. "Mother, how is that possible? Didn't my father die of illness...?"
Li Wei explained what had happened back then in a few brief sentences.
A Yan staggered a few steps and fainted.
Li Wei cradled A Yan in her arms, pressing beneath her nose and soothing her breathing. Only after considerable effort did A Yan open her eyes.
"Mother, I don't want to live anymore..."
Li Wei felt as though life had royally screwed her over.
Had she slaughtered Shi Hong's entire family in her previous life? In this life, she and her daughter had fallen into the hands of Shi Hong and his son respectively.
Everyone present fell silent.
Faced with such a tragic scene, the gossip-munching badgers finally lost their appetite for juicy melons.
Only Jian Ruonan remained riveted, her eyes sparkling with gossip.
Jian Chuyun: They're already this miserable, and you're still munching melons? Aren't you afraid of losing merit?
Min took Nan Nan's hand. Sweet girl, let's go home.
They would pass on this bitter melon. Eating it would only upset them.
Just as everyone was about to disperse, Jian Ruonan's inner voice rang out again-
[Shi Jiang and A Yan aren't biological siblings!]
The gossip badgers: *!!*
Oh my, this melon's so huge we can't swallow it in one bite!
Her inner voice had barely faded when a middle-aged man pushed open the door and entered. "Huh? Why are there so many people here?"
The newcomer was none other than Shi Hong's colleague and close friend-Shi Wu'ai.
Having received an invitation from the First-Rank Great General, Shi Wu'ai had hurried to the private school. Seeing so many people in the room left him