"Jia Bao, you promised you wouldn't leave! Please stay. Stay here with me, okay? If you don't go, Grandma and Grandpa definitely won't go either—"
Gu Jiayi clutched Lin Jia Bao's clothes, sobbing hysterically. She knew perfectly well that without Lin Jia Bao, she would lose out on so much. She had to convince him to stay. "Jia Bao, we're the closest of siblings! We've had only each other since we were in the womb. We've never truly been apart. Are you really going to be so heartless and abandon me like this?"
Mrs. Tao clutched the five hundred yuan in her hand, wiping away a steady stream of tears. The Lin Family no longer had anything to hold over her son, and her own daughter was gone. By all rights, their past grievances should be water under the bridge.
