"Someone like her belongs in prison, reflecting on her crimes. She murdered Xie Wan, then played at disappearing for no reason. When she finally resurfaces, her first instinct isn't to come home to her father, but to run to the Tang family. Who knows what she's plotting?"
Song Yueyue's words were like a blade, carving deeply into Song Julan's heart. He clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white, the image of Xie Wan’s tragic death flashing before his eyes—that face, pale as paper, and those eyes that had stared, lifeless and accusing, into the void.
"Julan..." Zhao Suihua gently took her son’s hand, her voice choked with emotion. "For all these years, Mother has known the bitterness you’ve carried. A girl as wonderful as Xie Wan, just gone like that..."
Chapter 23