She nodded, like a little bird startled.
"Did Xuan Yu ever mention where your mother might be?" He could see that Little Kitten had truly been wronged over the past days, so his tone was a bit softer.
Xuan Yu—
The woman who had stolen her away from under his nose and forced her to marry a disabled man.
She'd just have to take her chances.
The man's chilly frost, that had hastily passed, hid within a flicker of his dense eyelashes, returning to a calm demeanor.
Jiayi nodded, "She said my mom was in a car accident, became a vegetative person, and has been in the hospital sustained by a ventilator. I also saw my mom lying in the hospital room in a video. That day at the hotel, she said my mommy's recent condition was very poor and that she could pass away at any time. I was worried for a moment, which is why I came back, but once I returned, she kept delaying my meeting with my mother. Using my mom as leverage, she made me marry Ya Chen in place of Chu Xinyu."
