So please... Trust me

Yang Jia observed and noticed that Tang Xiu Ying was unusual. Tang Xiu Ying had her hand on her neck as if she was trying to cover it.

Yang Jia looked more closely and saw like two or three red spots planted on her neck.

"Is there something bothering you?" She asked concerned

Tang Xiu Ying stopped her jittery and looked at Yang Jia before she said "No, it's nothing"

Yang Jia looked at her clothes and was only wearing a simple floral dress with nothing else except heels.

"You shouldn't be going out to places like this. It's the middle of winter. You'll definitely catch a cold" Yang Jia said worriedly

"This is the first thing I saw in my closet and put it on because I was in a rush" Tang Xiu Ying told her the half truth.

"I see... You didn't want to make your date wait" Yang Jia teased.

"Wh-what makes you say that?" Tang Xiu Ying laughed nervously.

Yang Jia pointed at her at neck and answered "You have a few *cough* hickeys *cough* on your neck"

Tang Xiu Ying blushed and tried to find something to cover her neck. 'I wish earth could just swallow me whole' she thought. She's never been in this situation because she never had a boyfriend let alone have intimate contact with a man, until just a few hours ago.

Yang Jia giggled at her reaction and took of her white trench coat "Take it"

"I can't" Tang Xiu Ying wanted to reject.

"I said take it... Trust me you need more than I do"

Tang Xiu Ying reluctantly agreed. She grabbed the trench coat and put it on. 'Oh My God! This is so undeniably soft' She thought. She immediately felt warmth spreading all throughout her upper body.

"Wow! This is so soft and warm. Where did you get this coat?" Tang Xiu Ying asked

"I made it" Yang Jia answered

"Wow, I don't know what to say. This is truly amazing" Tang Xiu Ying complimented her

Yang Jia smiled and thanked her.

Yang Jia's face soon turned serious "Tang Xiu Ying what truly happened today?" she asked. Yang Jia could easily tell one's personality by just one glance. There's a few that she couldn't though. Yang Jia knew that Tang Xiu Ying wasn't the type of person to go at a hotel or a resort to just do intimate things with a man and then leave. There was something fishy going on here.

Yang Jia moved her hand and took hold of Tang Xiu Ying's hands that were placed on the table when Tang Xiu Ying didn't answer.

"Tang Xiu Ying, I want you to trust me. I promise I will help you with the best of my ability, but how can I help you if I don't know what's happening" Yang Jia assure her and then added "I know we just met and here I am trying to help a person I don't know anything about, but my gut is telling to help you. So please... Trust me"

Tang Xiu Ying felt touched by Yang Jia's words and decided to tell her the entire truth. "It all happened when my mother supposedly passed away...

I was devastated when I heard the news of her death. At that time, I was around the age of eight. The day after my mom's funeral, I found out I now had a step mother and a half sister...

At that time I couldn't understand anything because I was a little girl. I just had to live with it, but I started to grow and I had more knowledge about everything.

The puzzle slowly started to come together and I found out that my father cheated on my mother while they were married. My heart broke when I found out, I locked myself in my room for an entire month... That cracked bond that my father and I had after my mother's death was soon broken...

As the days went by I suffered miserably. Tang Jue and her mother bullied me. There was no day where they did not stop taunting me and hurting me. My father didn't do anything about it, he just let them be. He allowed them to torture me, but I wasn't surprised. My father is now a stranger to me" Tang Xiu Ying's eyes turned cold when she talked about her father. There was no familial love towards her dad, only pure hatred.

Tang Xiu Ying continued "On the first day of high school, everybody started despising me. There were new rumors spreading about me everyday of each of my high school year. I was at the top of my class, but Tang Jue said I seduced the teachers for those grades. There were so many rumours about me that I couldn't even count or even remember...

I was getting sick of living in the Tang family, so I set a goal for myself. I've always wanted to be a model, so I went and graduated from Performing Arts Academy...

I thought... Yes! Finally I can escape this nightmare that I've been living the past decade and a half. I can finally live my life! But things don't always go how you want them to be...

The day I was going to move out, my father suddenly took me to some abandoned land that was two to three hours away from here. There were no buildings, just one... A hospital...

I didn't know where he was taking me and I just followed him. He told me he wanted to have a talk with me before I left. We soon entered a patient's room and I could feel my legs weakening and eyes watering when I saw the person in the bed..." Tang Xiu Ying made a pained expression

"I saw my mother in a hospital bed as father walked toward her. He pulls out a gun out of nowhere and points it at her. That day I found out that my mother had been alive all this time, but my father was forcing her to stay unconscious this whole entire time. She was practically... living dead" Tang Xiu Ying said. It took her a lot of effort to say those last two words. She didnt noticed she had her hands clenched into a fist. Her nails pierced through her skin, almost making it bleed.