Grandpa Xu sighed heavily, his eyes clouded with old pain. "Yaoyao, what happened to your mother... it was a terrible, senseless act of cruelty."
Chenyao leaned in, her face etched with concern. "What happened, Grandpa? Please tell me."
"Your mother was a brilliant doctor, as you know," Grandpa Xu began, his voice tight with emotion. "She was dedicated to her work, to helping people. But then she encountered that man named Alexei Petrovich. I told her, she should have never gone to that seminar in country R."
He paused, collecting himself. Xu Chenyao waited patiently, sensing the difficulty of the story.
"Alexei became obsessed with your mother," Grandpa Xu continued. "He pursued her relentlessly, even though she wasn't interested. When she repeatedly rejected him, he... he couldn't handle it."
"What did he do?" Xu Chenyao asked, dreading the answer.
