Afternoon.
On the sports field.
"So it was someone from the Song Family who came looking for you just now?"
Xiao Mengyu asked curiously.
"Yeah." Shen Ye sighed and told her everything that had happened earlier.
"So the people who attacked at the Hotel were Second Miss Song's people!" Xiao Mengyu realized.
"I heard she was close to dying, so I found something that could lift the curse and had someone from her side take it back," Shen Ye said.
"Close to dying? Has it actually gotten that serious?" Xiao Mengyu murmured.
"Is there more to this?" Shen Ye asked.
"It was quite a famous incident back then-the two sisters took their clan's talent test together. The older sister was found to possess an extremely powerful talent, but the younger sister apparently got into a dispute with her right there... Their father slapped her unconscious."
Sympathy showed in Xiao Mengyu's eyes as she said softly:
"Her health was never very good after that. Sometimes she acted deranged, and sometimes she talked nonsense to empty air-some said she'd been cursed, and others said she'd gone mad. But gradually, there was no more news of her."
"I never imagined it would come to this."
Shen Ye asked in puzzlement, "Was there really no news of her at all in all those years?"
"I heard she did go to school for a while, but she was bullied there and then dropped out," Xiao Mengyu said.
Shen Ye had remained calm all along, but this moved him.
"The Song Family is such a major aristocratic family, yet someone actually dared to bully their second miss?"
Xiao Mengyu froze for a moment, then murmured:
"Right... Didn't her parents stand up for her...?"
Just then, the bell rang for class.
The two stopped talking and returned