Once the call ended, Xia Luna sat on her bed and placed the phone back on the bedside table.
From the phone call they had just had, she knew that Li Lanni was starting to trust her. Or maybe she almost fully trusted her.
But instead of happiness, her face was filled with sadness... a lonely kind of sadness.
Actually, she hadn't known Li Lanni for very long. She had grown up only knowing that she had a father and a stepmother. No one ever mentioned her mother, and like the good girl she was, she never asked.
It only happened about two years ago. Her father, Xia Hanchen, had suddenly been screened with a heart tumor. His health had deteriorated so rapidly that in a few months, he was almost just a walking shell. The doctors didn't think he would make it past a year. He would talk to no one and just keep staring into space in a daze.
