Under He Wenjie's insistence, Lina finally spoke about the dilemma she was currently facing: "My father is staying at my place and refuses to leave. I had to stay in a hotel during your days in London. When you came back, I thought I could stay at your place for a while."
"Choosing me first when you have nowhere to go is the best news I've heard today. Is your relationship with your father not very good?" He Wenjie had actually already hired a private investigator to look into Lina's past, including what her childhood neighbors had said, and all of it was sitting completely in He Wenjie's inbox. But He Wenjie certainly wouldn't tell Lina any of this. So right now, he needed to play along and let Lina tell him about it in her own words.
Lina nestled into He Wenjie's arms, recounting her past bit by bit: "In my memory, ever since I was little, my dad wasn't good to the two of us. Although there was no domestic violence, whenever he came home drunk, he would throw tantrums and smash the furniture around. Later on, he stopped coming home altogether. My mom and I couldn't bear the gossip of the neighbors, so we moved. After my mom passed away, I came to Beijing all by myself, and slowly worked my way up to where I am now." Although Lina had already made her childhood experiences clear, she intentionally omitted one detail: Lina was a premature baby, so the surrounding neighbors used to gossip that Lina wasn't her father's daughter, which was the root cause of how her father torm…
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