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During a tea break, Tan Xianmei suddenly looked at her and asked, "Mai Xiaomai, did you marry Mr. Qiao out of love?"
Caught off guard by the question while she was drinking her tea, Mai Xiaomai choked and coughed a few times before replying, "No."
"Then why did you two get married?"
Like Mai Xiaomai, Tan Xianmei had previously focused solely on her academic pursuits and never paid attention to entertainment gossip. She also wasn't aware of Qiao Chutian's background, and she didn't have a friend like You Bei who was into gossip.
In the end, she had no friends at all.
Ever since her parents had passed away, she had always been solitary. In the eyes of her classmates, she was a loner, not a social butterfly, a bookworm, and she didn't take the initiative to approach others.
Therefore, no one approached her, and certainly no one gossiped in her presence.
"We married because of a very cliché arrangement by our parents."
