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Her friend nodded in agreement. She brought the mother-son pair to a western restaurant that she used to patronize, and booked a private room.

After ordering, Zula hurriedly pulled her into the washroom to probe. Yuna did not want to hide anything from her, so she just laid everything bare to her without going into much detail.

Her friend listened until her heart ached terribly.

“To actually treat you like that, your stepmom is simply too cruel and unscrupulous! Six years ago, when my dad told me about how the Shire family was able to pay off all their bulging debts within a year, I thought it was strange. Never did I expect that you sacrificed so much… What is the point of doing that?”

Yuna laughed self-deprecatingly and unaffectedly. “Just showing my gratitude. Moreover, these are all in the past. Since I did it for the family, it counted as me repaying my dad for bringing me up.”

The hellish period in the welfare center, where she suffered from all kinds of bullying, was a shadow in