"Oh, Madam Chen, are you not aware? No matter what, our Lin family is Young Master Chen's life-saving benefactor. If it hadn't been for our family taking him in, he would definitely still be mingling with the little street beggars, living a miserable life with no clothes to cover his body and not enough food to fill his stomach! Oh right, not only were they starving and freezing, but they were also subjected to beatings and chases by street ruffians every day, and even stray dogs looking for food could easily drive them away!"
What Lin Yuan said was not an exaggeration; this indeed had been Xiao Linzi's state when she first saw him. Otherwise, she would not have developed such a lack of affection for Lady Jiang and Chen Leyao upon meeting them.
Lady Jiang was clearly hearing about such matters for the first time; she had originally thought that when Chen Ruochu sneakily left, he had taken silver with him, but she hadn't expected the boy to have suffered so much out in the world.
