Sun Youwei listened with her eyebrows slightly furrowed. When Situ Wan had approached her, she hadn't mentioned even half a word about this. Was it deliberate concealment, or was it simply not true?
"Dongguo, why didn't you tell me about these things earlier?"
"Didn't this kid, Lin, say that knowing these things would just add to your troubles? Anyway, you didn't know your mother was still alive, just pretend as if she wasn't; it's easier to live in ignorance," said Dongguo Sun.
"If she truly cared about me, then in these twenty years, even if she was genuinely restricted at Siguoya, couldn't she have sent someone to pass on a message to me and my father?"
"In a sect like the Daoist Sect, your mother was a True Disciple of Merak Peak. Eloping with a Wild Physician and giving birth to a daughter would naturally be seen as scandalous. How could they allow her to have any contact with you?"
