Wu Chen left dejectedly, and Shen Li sat alone in the cafe, her face etched with confusion, her eyes seemingly stained with the hues of sorrow that just wouldn't wash away.
She had been assertive in front of Wu Chen just now, but inside, her heart was aching. She thought her life had been hard enough, her family destroyed by a mistress's ascension, years of suffering under her stepmother, and just when she had finally gotten her revenge, this chapter of her life was supposed to be over.
She hadn't expected this was just the beginning, that she had been abandoned by her birth mother at birth because she needed a son and, failing to birth one herself, had switched her for another child to secure her position as the legal wife.
It sounded like a trope from old phone conversations, something that nowadays TV dramas rarely employ. After years of proclaiming gender equality, such an event could still unfold, and to happen to her felt utterly absurd.
