Xie Yuanjiu had never heard Second Madam Xie mention any of this.
She had always thought her father was in love with someone else, but due to family pressure, he had no choice but to marry her mother.
She never would have imagined that the way her mother married into the Xie family was so sordid.
No wonder she had never been close to her father, even as a child.
She always felt that Second Master Xie treated her merely out of politeness and paternal duty, not with the affection of a true father-daughter relationship.
She had never known what it felt like to be held in her father's arms.
And her two cousins, Xie Mingxu and Xie Ming'an, also kept their distance.
She was even treated worse than Shen Ningning, the adopted daughter who had just been accepted into the Xie family.
At some point, Consort Rong appeared before her and gently helped Xie Yuanjiu to her feet.
