"My parents are actually cousins?"
Feng Xiu shook his head at once, and a chuckle escaped him. "Well, not biologically. There was no blood relation between them at all." He met Lin Fang's gaze directly. "Legally, however, they could be considered cousins."
Lin Fang let out a slow breath, his thoughts racing.
"However, neither of them knew the truth about their relation either," Feng Xiu continued. "Your father grew up in the Lin family Household while your mother, Rachel, grew up abroad as her mother was too busy with the company matters. They grew up apart, under different identities. Years later, they both enrolled in the same academy. They met. And then they fell in love."
A faint softness crept into Feng Xiu's otherwise neutral tone. "When they eventually discovered each other's family backgrounds, they broke up for a while."
Lin Fang's fingers pressed into the couch.
