Xie Changning's words made Xie Changyi's expression darken.
Yu Chunhe also asked tentatively, "Was your family that bad to you?"
"They were fine. Compared to other girls, I was lucky to be able to go to school for so many years. But my parents always said the family's assets were for my brothers, and had nothing to do with me."
As she spoke, Xie Changning put on the same smile the original owner used to wear—a smile of contentment with her situation.
Without that smile, Xie Changning couldn't have smiled at all.
The original owner had been kind-hearted, but the current Xie Changning was not. She knew her adoptive parents had been nothing but calculating, even hoping she would be married off somewhere far away.
So she would be out of their sight.
'Sometimes, Xie Changning really didn't get it. If they despised the original owner so much, why did they agree to take her in for her parents in the first place?'
"What!?"
