"Mm." Shen Mosheng nodded, honestly conveying his wife's words.
"Yingying carefully inquired about the situation back then and concluded: Ling Xuexue must have learned something terrible, and to avoid ruining you, she chose such an extreme way to leave you."
"For example?"
"Your blood relationship with her."
"We have no blood relationship, she knew that."
"But she was too young at that time. If someone wanted to separate you two on purpose, creating evidence of a blood relationship wouldn't be difficult."
Ling Wuxie's pupils shrank as he recalled Ling Xuexue repeatedly emphasizing that there was no possibility for them, speaking so coldly and heartlessly, yet with such a painful look in her eyes.
Could it really be, as Han Yingying speculated, that someone had been manipulating things from behind the scenes back then?