In Jiangcheng, taking back something previously given away is considered a complete and permanent severance of ties.
What Ling Lu had done at the auction was undoubtedly a message to them that she intended to cut off all ties with Lin Yueru.
Lin Yueru stood frozen on the spot, her heart feeling as though it were in a noose, the chill of intertwined pain and despair spreading through her entire body.
Chapter 205