Mother and daughter had never met, so there was truly little emotional bond between them. Ji Xingge was not using her life to threaten her mother; she was merely expressing her firm resolve.
Shen Hou remained silent. Ji Xingge did not know that throughout her upbringing, though her mother had been absent, she had never been forgotten. Every year, her mother would find an opportunity to look at her from afar, until she grew into an adult. Otherwise, how could she have recognized her at a single glance?
To make her kill her own daughter with her own hands was impossible. But to make her abandon the aspiration of a lifetime for this was equally impossible. There were always some things higher than love, and even higher than life.
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