"Their relationship to the outside world was proclaimed merely as companionship, a female companion for social gatherings and only for fewer occasions. Not many knew about Charles's household harboring such a woman."
"Over the past two years, she had hardly any contact with Charles or his family. They didn't share any substantial relationship, let alone be a legal married couple, but Charles did indeed care deeply for Fenfen, that much was true."
Why, after all?
In these past two years, the medical expenses of her parents were all paid from her own earnings, nearly... completely severing ties with the Ji family.
And with Ji Jingfeng, whom she claimed she sincerely wished to marry, there was not the slightest connection.
So, if it wasn't for fame, and not for gain, what was it for?
Her fake badness, her frivolous disguises, all her pretenses, he had come to understand them all, except he couldn't find out what exactly the old man had told her, or perhaps what he had done to her.
