The original host believed she was a burden to the family. With her father gone, it hadn't been easy for her mother to struggle and raise her. She felt she couldn't be so selfish as to put her mother in a difficult position within the new blended family.
From the time she was just three or four years old and barely understood the world, she had been helping her mother with household chores. Now, at nine, the girl's hands were covered in thick calluses, and her face was tan and rough, not looking like a child's at all.
So, after arriving at the Xiao family's home, she made a habit of yielding. She bit her tongue and swallowed every grievance, never arguing or fighting for anything.
After all, her mother had brainwashed her into believing that the two of them were intruders who had destroyed the Xiao family's original happiness, so they had to live meekly and walk on eggshells.
