Making an enemy out of Yan Chun Hua

College had been a fresh start for her, but the weight of her past still lingered.

Back in the capital, she had been known as the illegitimate child of the Yan family, and most of her peers had kept their distance.

Real friendships had been hard to come by.

When she first saw Jiang Yue at the apartment building, she had genuinely felt a spark of hope.

Here was someone who stood up to Yan Chun Hua, and for the first time, Yan Meixiu had wanted to connect with someone who seemed to be unafraid of her.

At the start of college, she threw herself into being the bubbly, friendly student she hoped people would like.

It worked—she became friends with the Jiang sisters. But as time went on, she realized that, unlike the people she'd grown up with, Jiang Yue and her sister were genuine, more real to her than the people sitting at this dinner table, pretending to care.