"That home was very shabby, with the stench of chicken and duck droppings everywhere. I didn't like that shabby wooden house at all, nor did I like the aunt who bought me. I would never call her mother, even though she beat and kicked me, causing me so much pain that I thought I might die. However, I never spoke up. I'd rather be mute than call her mother! Because she isn't my mother, she's a bad person."
"Every day I stayed in that home, I felt so sad. Every day was spent either being beaten or scolded. After a while, that bad woman got angry and didn't want me anymore. She had the matchmaker take me back home. I thought nobody would like me and they would send me back to my biological parents if they couldn't deal with me. But instead, the matchmaker sold me to Father He."
Hearing this, Dr. Qin understood that He Zhilan had been trafficked as a child and later entered the He Family to become He Teng's child bride.
