Back at the villa, Lin Ziran found an excuse to send Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxu upstairs to do their homework so she could have a private talk with Ou Lan.
Ou Lan's first question was, "Ziran, what's going on with you and Lin Feng?"
Lin Zitong smiled and shrugged. "Nothing much. Later his career hit a setback and he couldn't stay in Country M any longer, so we broke up."
Ou Lan frowned deeply. "You two didn't get married?"
Lin Ziran shook her head. "No."
"Why?"
"I was the one who didn't want to get married. I developed a fear of marriage, so I kept putting it off. Later, as his career suffered, our feelings faded too, so we broke up peacefully. Both kids stayed with me."
Lin Ziran spun this lie as if it were nothing at all.
These six years of searching for her child had been hard and exhausting for Ou Lan. Although she felt regret, she could no longer stir up too much emotional turmoil; over these six years, her heart had settled into something quite tough.
