Chen Shanshan thought resentfully, her gaze firmly fixed on the tightly embracing couple, wishing she could poke thousands of holes into their bodies.
The irony wasn't lost on her. If it hadn't been for Chen Shanshan's petulance, her inability to endure days of tiring journeying, insisting on disembarking at Bin City, a thousand miles away from the capital, she would not have been discovered by Xiao Ruiyuan's Hidden Guard. In the end, she and her family were captured in a civilian's house.
The very day they were brought back, they were thrown into the Ministry of Justice's Prison to await their deaths.
Chen Shanshan harbored hatred for her biological father, Chen Ji, for his heinous betrayal and dragging her into his mess. She also felt that Mrs. Du was a harbinger of doom, born to overshadow her, trampling Chen Ji's love for her underfoot, not touching her heart in the slightest, utterly cold and unfeeling.