Yeqian was indeed quite surprised and suddenly didn't know how to continue the conversation.
Zhao Xueli had previously talked about her background, which was even more tragic and bitter than his—they felt a strange sense of sympathy for one another.
They were both abandoned children.
She had once said that she was the unwanted child her mother brought into a new marriage.
Zhao Xueli had since given up on herself, spending her days with riffraff, living a life clouded in darkness.
When her stepfather had sinister intentions towards her for the second time, her confused mother did not stop him, but instead, blamed her for looking like a vixen.
It was her boyfriend at the time who came to her rescue, and what was terrifying was that he accidentally killed her stepfather in a misstep.