Song Tian was originally supposed to be sent back to the An Family, but the Song Family Parents pitied her still-unhealed leg, so they let her continue staying with the Song Family. They allowed the An Family Parents to visit her, with the arrangement that she would go home after her injury fully healed.
The Song Family Parents had good intentions; they reflected on their fondness and guilt towards An Qinyu, feeling that the An Family Parents must also miss their daughter Song Tian very much.
However, in Song Tian’s eyes, the couple who had raised her from a young girl had finally found their biological daughter, and she, the adopted one, had become redundant.
She didn’t want to go back to that so-called Song Family at all, where the monthly salary of both parents combined couldn’t even afford a pair of shoes for her. She couldn’t accept that she was not a lofty, wealthy lady, but rather a daughter of a commoner’s family.
She didn’t even want to meet the An Family’s parents; she had always been the Song Family’s daughter from childhood to adulthood. Why did everything have to change just because of a car accident?
If only everything could remain as it was, if only... if only An Qinyu didn’t exist.
She fell into madness over this, the thought crystallizing in her mind, driving her to a final decision.
She sought someone out, arranging a car accident.
That boy, who had always liked her—a liking so intense he was even willing to give up his own life.
He drove the car himself, ran a red light, and struck An Qinyu as she was crossing the street, sending her flying.
An Qinyu died, and that boy took all the responsibility upon himself. But after all, he was just a high school student, how could he truly withstand professional interrogation?
The Song Family Parents never imagined that bringing their biological daughter back home would lead to such a tragedy.
Mrs. Song fainted on the spot, and upon waking, she never wanted to see Song Tian again.
Song Tian paid the price for what she had done, but An Qinyu was gone forever.
Gu Shengyin snapped back to reality and checked the time; it was time for school.
She got ready, and the living room was empty. In the An Family’s house, there was never breakfast prepared for her.
It was a bit cold outside, and Gu Shengyin couldn’t help but wrap her coat a little tighter around herself.
The high school she attended was the best key school in the city, with extremely expensive tuition fees.
An Qinyu was able to attend this school because she had entered with the highest grades, with nearly perfect scores in all subjects during the middle school entrance exams. The school waived all her tuition fees and even awarded her a substantial scholarship.
Since it did not cost them anything, Mr. An and Mrs. An didn’t say much about it.
If Gu Shengyin remembered correctly, Song Tian actually attended the same school as her, but the two had never had any interaction.
The Song Family had strict family education, and unlike other families, Mr. Song and Mrs. Song did not send their child to those private noble schools. Even so, the brands Song Tian wore were definitely not ones an ordinary high school student could afford.
She bought a cup of soy milk and two buns, eating as she walked along the road.
"Tiantian, what are you looking at?" Song Tian came back to her senses and saw her friend calling out to her. She smiled and said, "Nothing, I just thought that girl looked somewhat familiar."
Her friend glanced at Gu Shengyin’s retreating figure and laughed, "Her? That’s An Qinyu, our school’s top student, the recipient of the first-class scholarship every year."
Song Tian had just caught a glimpse and thought that girl’s profile looked like her mother’s, but her mother didn’t have any relatives with the surname An, did she?
Seeing Qinyu’s shabby appearance, she couldn’t possibly be a relative of her mother’s. Song Tian didn’t pay it much mind and walked towards the classroom.