Zhi Chen was momentarily silent before he had a moment of realization. "You doubted his sincerity, thinking he had no feelings for you, and that’s why you left?" Dong Huiying paused before admitting, "I have to admit I was a bit hurt because... you brothers, you’re all too noble." She curled her lips in a smile, but it was laced with unspeakable irony. "If I don’t enter hell, who will? Yixuan is noble, and the rest of you are noble too, capable of sacrificing for each other, but honestly, I never needed that sacrifice." "He clearly didn’t like me, he was even afraid of me. If I got a bit too close, he would become a terrified mess. Even though he tried hard to control it, his body couldn’t lie. Stiff as a board, like a cold corpse, what’s he afraid of? That I’ll hit him, or do something else to him?" "Yet even so, clearly not liking me, clearly being afraid of me, clearly having a hurdle in his heart he couldn’t get over, he was still willing to compromise himself for the sake of you all." "Shujun and the others were the same." Dong Huiying shrugged, "I once thought you were all very kind to me, and I was happy to take care of you, to help you recover your health—I quite liked that life..." It was an ordinariness she had never before experienced. "But what were your intentions in treating me kindly? Because of my medical skill? Because I cooked well? For some other reason, or for me myself? Was it because I am who I am that you treated me well, or was it because you valued what I could offer?" Dong Huiying sighed softly, "I don’t like that. I once thought that many things could be turned around, changed if I just tried hard. But I proved too naïve; the injuries of the past are something you could never forget in a lifetime. I can’t even tell, the care you showed me, how much of it was real and how much was fake?" To be honest, she felt quite defeated. Upon hearing this, Zhi Chen once again fell into a deep silence. In their brothers’ minds, her running away from home had a lot to do with Yixuan. Shujun even blamed Yixuan, saying it was Yixuan who drove her away. But what exactly had happened between her and Yixuan, no one knew. Nobody knew what she was thinking either. After pondering, Zhi Chen spoke to her earnestly, "Shujun misses you very much. When he found the letter you left and realized you had run away, he followed your trail up the mountain. He stayed in the mountains for many days until Madam Dong carried him back, emaciated beyond recognition. To this day, he hasn’t regained the weight." "Haoming has issued a reward in the black market; he’s been looking for you too. As for Yue Ning, whereabouts unknown, but ever since you left, he has been asking about you in every town; he must have traveled far by now. Yixuan, on the other hand, is drowning his sorrows in alcohol, often drunk senseless, not resting until dawn." A bitterness crept into Dong Huiying’s heart, "I left a letter before I left..." Zhi Chen heaved a sigh, "I know, the letter said you would return after a year, but they can’t wait, nor dare to wait, afraid that once you left, you would never come back." Dong Huiying curled her lips in a self-mocking smile, "Yeah, after all, Shu Yu’s life depends on me, only I can cure Shu Yu. If I really left for good, Shu Yu would be in danger. That’s why I say, you brothers are noble, truly noble!"