Time passed swiftly, and it was almost the time when Song Tian had her car accident.
Sure enough, not long after Gu Shengyin arrived at school that day, she overheard classmates discussing the incident.
"I heard it was a girl from Class Five..."
"It’s that Song Tian, who is rumored to come from a very wealthy family."
Gu Shengyin opened her book and began to read slowly, acting as if the gossip didn’t exist.
The students in the class also refrained from gossiping around her spontaneously. It was strange; although Shengyin looked slim and small, just her presence alone, without showing any particular expression, naturally emitted an aura that kept strangers at bay.
Some had even joked in private that this was the aura of a top student "God," something they mere mortals couldn’t understand.
Gu Shengyin slightly lifted her head, her thoughts went blank for a second: Song Tian had an accident, so the Song Family would probably be coming to find her soon.
Indeed, the power of money. Less than a month after news of Song Tian’s accident broke, Gu Shengyin saw a middle-aged couple waiting at the door of the apartment she rented when she returned home that day.
To say they were middle-aged, in fact, the couple looked quite young, merely in their early thirties by appearance.
Upon seeing Gu Shengyin, the woman’s eyes reddened immediately, "Are you... are you An Qinyu?"
Gu Shengyin looked at them warily and didn’t open the door, "Who are you?"
The man was more composed, his expression very gentle, "We are friends of your parents... we came to see you."
Gu Shengyin became even more guarded, "That’s a lie. My parents’ friends wouldn’t know about me." As she spoke, she thought about how the An Family had always taken only their eldest daughter to social events and parties, and many of their friends didn’t even know they had two daughters.
Hearing Shengyin’s words, the couple’s expression turned sorrowful: of course, when they investigated the incident from the past year, they had also inquired about the An Family and how they’d treated this younger daughter over the years. They had investigated everything very thoroughly.
The daughter who should have been cherished and doted on in their hands was instead being ignored like an invisible person in another family for sixteen years!
Finally, the woman couldn’t hold back her tears anymore, "Yuyu, I... I’m your mother!" I am your biological mother!
The man felt that the girl was unnaturally calm and feared she would not easily believe them.
As expected, Gu Shengyin just gave them a curious glance, then quickly took out her phone—which she had bought with her own scholarship money since the An Family never bothered with such matters.
"I don’t know who you are, but you showing up at my doorstep and saying these bewildering things, leave immediately, or I’m calling the police!" Gu Shengyin declared.
However, the man noticed that her hand holding the phone was trembling slightly. Clearly, the girl wasn’t as composed as she appeared; she was scared.
After all, she was just a sixteen-year-old child. No matter how precocious, how mature could she really be?
The man felt a softness in his heart but also simultaneous hatred towards the An Family: How could they not fear for the safety of a teenage girl living alone outside? What kind of parents were they?
Perhaps her precocity came from never having anyone who truly considered her needs?