No matter if it's just secretly asking about their circumstances, knowing that they're alive, that they can still get by—only then can she be at ease and live her days, treating her illness as well.
How could she possibly be so heartless, ignoring them completely?
Even as her parents, they couldn't help but feel some resentment toward her, couldn't understand her behavior no matter how hard they tried—let alone Chiang Xiao, who already had no memories of her at all?
And how could she stay in someone else's home like that? How could she get entangled with a married man?
She even became a laughingstock in the Capital City for ten years.
If Chiang Xiao had to acknowledge her, then what would happen to Chiang Xiao?
She had borne the reputation of an unknown father and a missing mother for so many years, only to finally silence the whispers through her own efforts. Must she now carry the label of having a fox-spirit for a birth mother?
How would that be fair to Chiang Xiao?
