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"I'll be quite busy this coming week. Is there anything you particularly desire? If so, I'll do my best to satisfy you and buy it back for you as soon as possible."

“No need to prepare anything extra…”

Even in this situation, Yu Xinxin still shook her head and replied, "Many of the gifts my brother Qiao Yuan sent me before are still piled up there, unopened and unused."

Looking in the direction his sister pointed, he saw a pile of items in a corner of the room. These were relief supplies and greeting cards sent by family and friends in recent times. Most of them were specially selected by Qiao Yuan and given to Yu Xinxin as encouragement and support.

Although Yu Wan was eager to throw these things away, after listening to Dr. Zhang Ke's professional advice, she reluctantly agreed to keep them for the time being.

She turned her head and made an angry face towards Yu Xinxin, pouting in dissatisfaction and said, "You want Qiao Yuan's useless things, but not my things? Am I no longer the apple of your eye, your sweetheart?"

After hearing this, Yu Xinxin smiled gently, and the tension on her face was slightly relieved because of the arrival of Dr. Zhang Ke.

She walked forward, gently extending her arms to embrace her beloved daughter, her tone filled with both doting and helplessness, "Of course, Mom will always love you the most! Everything about you, every little change, makes Mom feel genuine love and pride. But we're still living in the Qiao family compound, so sometimes we have to learn to compromise and give in temporarily to ensure you can successfully enter school. Otherwise, I'm afraid you might not even get the basic opportunity to learn."

Hearing her mother's words, Yu Wan gently raised her hand and patted her arm in response, but did not immediately express her thoughts.

Looking at her sensible daughter, Yu Xinxin continued to explain patiently, "Mom has also observed that in that cold and heartless mansion, only the man named Qiao Yuan still has a trace of kindness towards us. If we can find a way to establish a more harmonious relationship with him, it may be of great help to your future growth and development. What do you think?"

When mentioning Qiao Yuan's good intentions, Yu Wan couldn't help but sneer in her heart.

Her thoughts drifted back to the heartbreaking memory when she was five years old: whenever one of the elders in the family, the woman named Qiao Susu, was in a bad mood, the innocent and weak girl was always the first target of criticism.

On one occasion, her condition was so severe that she nearly lost consciousness, forcing her to flee in terror to atop a tree to avoid harm. However, no one could have imagined that, in order to force her back into danger and face an unknown fate, the self-proclaimed "kind" man—the so-called "good brother" Qiao Yuan—would run madly up to the roof and throw a terrifying, lifelike, writhing cobra toward her hiding place...

The horrifying venomous snake bit her carotid artery almost fatally, forcing her to fall to the ground in extreme fear, where she was seriously injured and unconscious for several months before she finally woke up and was reborn.

Later, she accidentally learned that Qiao Susu had beaten her madly because someone at the banquet questioned her chastity and asked her if she was still a pure girl.

This made Qiao Susu feel extremely humiliated, and the mixture of anger and shame made her almost lose control.

Qiao Susu angrily asked the other party why he asked such a rude question. The guests next to him looked at each other, hesitant and unable to give a clear answer.

However, at this moment, Qiao Yuan turned his accusation against her - he said that it was she who had secretly read Qiao Susu's book on abortion surgery when she didn't know many words; it was she who repeated other people's comments about Qiao Susu's infidelity in front of everyone; and it was she who spread rumors behind her back, slandering Qiao Susu as a morally corrupt woman.

This accusation made everyone present turn their attention to her, and she became the target of public criticism for a while.

From then on, no matter what negative news about Qiao Susu came out from the outside world, it was tacitly assumed that she was behind it.

She tried to defend herself many times and even asked her father Qiao Zhennan to come forward to clarify the truth.

But in Qiao Susu's eyes, facts are meaningless.

The other members of the Qiao family also believed that the hurt Miss Qiao urgently needed someone to vent her dissatisfaction. At the same time, they felt that the youngest son, who had always been spoiled but had no guard against others, also needed to find someone to shield him from the pressure brought by accusations and criticisms.

Therefore, no matter from which perspective, she seems to be able to only play such a role at the mercy of others and cannot escape the shackles of this tragic fate.

First her mother suffered this treatment, and now it was her turn at the age of five.

They are destined to make sacrifices for certain interests of the family.

Yu Wan gently hugged her daughter Yu Xinxin and said dejectedly, "I really hate those people. Don't accept their gifts in the future."

Feeling her mother's unusual mood, Yu Xinxin looked up at her with a hint of confusion on her face.

She pursed her lips and stared at her mother silently for a while before speaking.

"You were fine yesterday, why did you suddenly become like this? Did you suffer some injustice?"

She pinched Yu Wan's face anxiously and asked.

Yu Wan's expression became more and more serious, which made Yu Xinxin even more worried.

She tightened her grip and continued to comfort him, "My dear, if you don't like those people, then Mommy will never go to the Qiao family again. Actually, I just thought the teaching resources there are better, and I wanted you to learn and grow in a better environment. Did the Qiao family bully you? Did they really do something bad?"

Her rapid-fire questions were filled with anxiety, fearing that her precious daughter had suffered any injustice.

"No."

Yu Xinxin shook her head resolutely and stamped her foot in disbelief, "They must have bullied you! It's all my fault! It's all my fault!"

Her eyes were full of guilt and self-blame.

"If I hadn't come here, if..."

Her voice was choked with sobs as tears flowed out like a flood. "If I had left here sooner, everything would have been different."

Her tears flowed like a flood, and she choked up as she said, "I've always wanted to take you back to Zhejiang, to my hometown, to study. I've worked hard over the past few years and saved tens of thousands of yuan, which is enough for your schooling. I can find a small business and open a stall near the school so I can see you every day and watch you grow."

"If you don't like it, we don't have to stay here. We can choose to go back."