Twelve years ago?
Zhang Wei and He Xin beside him were momentarily confused; wasn't the other person only eight years old twelve years ago?
"Twelve years ago, my mother and I depended on each other for survival. Back then, I was still called Hu Xinran, because my father abandoned us, and I hadn't even been given a name, so I took my mother's surname, Hu."
The sob story's beginning, Zhang Wei presumed he already grasped it.
But who knew the next words would be the real bombshell.
"When I was eight years old, there was a man who came into my mother's life. Their status and identities were worlds apart, but they became partners in the name of love, and I was a witness to all that."
Hearing this, Zhang Wei got goosebumps all over.
Shi Xinyu always had a slightly sick, perverse aura about her. Though hard to explain, it was clear she was a very experienced manipulator.
"That man was my later boyfriend, Deng Kaiwen!"
"What?"
He Xin's eyes nearly popped out.
