Different Treatments

The two remained silent on the way home. Yun Xi did not say a word as she sat next to Feng Yang. He could sense how disappointed she was feeling.

He could sympathize with her situation. She had grown up in the countryside far from the love of her parents. The difficulties she'd faced growing up alone in a foreign place were still evident from the way her parents treated her today.

Neither her real mother or her aunt who she'd been sent to stay with had been kind to her. Her aunt had schemed to have her own daughter replace Yun Xi's position as the Young Madame of the Yun family, while her own mother had never seen her as a daughter.

She had tried hard to prove herself, yet things had never gone as intended.

She yearned for the warmth of a family, yet it was something she could never have.