She didn't see her stepsister and stepbrother, which made sense, because her stepsister always felt that their father favored her, his own daughter, even if they didn't live together.
However, whenever they met, they would always belittle her a little.
Sometimes her stepsister would collude with her stepmother to withhold Qin Xue's allowance when her father tried to give it to her.
Fortunately, Qin Xue had her grandparents, who were wealthy and took care of her, so she didn't have a hard life.
Later, when Qin Xue started to work, she stopped taking any money from her father and his family.
Instead, she managed to live a cheerful life with her grandparents despite the way they treated her.
This was all thanks to her grandmother's careful guidance while her grandfather would often sit by her side, fiddling with his medicinal herbs.
Her grandparents would often look at her and smile, and her grandmother's favorite thing to do was to hold Qin Xue close and say:
