Divorced, yet still spending Spring Festival with them as "one family."
Actually, it's not that miserable, not like the little match girl at all, on the brink of death. She's sitting in a warm car, with genuine leather seats beneath her, snacks in hand. It's also not like those so-called court intrigue novels, where if you've displeased a big shot, you're forced to kneel in the rain or snow, while others slap you.
In fact, it's not even as bad as before their return to the country, when some people took advantage of local protests and riots to come to their home, wrecking havoc. Her mother held her, surrounded by shattered glass, arrogant shouting, and drops of blood dripping from her mother's head.
Xia Siyu glanced at her mother; there's a scar on her forehead, left from that incident. Her mother's decision to return from abroad was influenced by that destructive event.
It's progressed since that time, then what?
