Seeing the sorrowful expression on her mother's face, Lin Banxia felt heartbroken as well. She couldn't hold back her tears and said, "Mom, I'm sorry. I actually never knew I was an adopted child of the Lin Family. If it weren't for the estrangement between my dad and me this time, he wouldn't have told me the truth."
"Were your previous parents good to you?" Cheng Roning asked with concern.
"My mom passed away very early on, and my dad was just passable, I guess. He's now cut off our father-daughter relationship as well." Thinking about how her dad had used her for transactions time and again, Lin Banxia no longer had the slightest shred of affection for him.
The debt of gratitude she owed, she considered repaid. She only hoped there would be no more ties between them in the future.
Seeing her sorrowful expression, Cheng Roning wisely refrained from poking further into her wounded heart.
