Ye's mother immediately pushed her stepdaughter back into the room.
"Shaohua, Qin Si is two months older than you, so she's like your older sister," Ye's mother said a few words, then looked helplessly at Ye Shaohua, struggling to continue, "It's been over a year, and you haven't come back; I always thought you..."
After the disappearance of four high school students during a trip, which even made the newspapers, the police searched for a long time at the place they went missing but couldn't find them. Later, Ye's father became comatose, and it seemed almost impossible to ever find his daughter again.
Fearing for her future with no one to rely on, Ye's mother simply got a divorce and had another son.
So, seeing Ye Shaohua return didn't fill her with joy; her feelings were incredibly complex.
She already had a new family.