After reconciling with Song Qiao five years ago, she treated this older sister like her own, and Song Qiao was genuinely good to her, always giving her the best.

In recent years, she even wondered why she always targeted Song Qiao initially, clearly, they could have lived like real sisters.

Regarding the issues between her mother and father, she understood better than anyone else that it was impossible for Song Qiao’s mother to have come between them.

Song Xi had met Song Qiao’s mother, a truly gentle and kind woman, who spoke very pleasantly and kindly. Back then, even though she knew she was the illegitimate daughter born of her father and her own mother outside the marriage, that woman still treated her kindly. Once, when she fainted from hunger, it was that woman who took her to the hospital and then cooked for her.

Meanwhile, her own mother was dragging her father off shopping for designer clothes and bags.

Initially, her impression of Song Qiao and Song Qiao’s mother was very good. But later on, her own mother kept badmouthing Song Qiao and her mother to her, saying all sorts of unfounded things about them, which eventually formed her negative opinion about them.

She even developed a pathological hatred at that time.

Because her mother told her that it was because of Song Qiao and her mother that she didn’t have her father’s company when she was born.

It was Song Qiao and her family who ruined her family and took her father away.

The assistant noticed the pain on Song Xi’s face, knowing she wasn’t in a good mood, but hesitated before finally speaking up, "Xiao Xi, there’s something I’m not sure if I should tell you..."

Song Qiao didn’t look up at her. She seemed to have lost interest. The news and those comments from earlier filled her chest with anger, but now as it slowly subsided, she couldn’t help thinking about the terror of cyberbullying.

Those following trends with their phones, believing whatever they hear, and then cursing and condemning others without knowing whether the person is innocent.

It is this kind of cyberbullying that many actors can’t bear, leaving them blackened beyond recognition. In the few years she has been in the entertainment circle, she knows of several who have become depressed because of it, including one she once acted with, who even committed suicide.

And that artist committed suicide entirely because of online harassment.

Should she be grateful that since her debut she has been treading steadily, so even though there are haters, they are few? Hence, she has never experienced, or even encountered, online bullying?

The assistant shifted her lips, swallowed unconsciously, and after a moment’s hesitation, said uncertainly, "Xiao Xi, I heard from a friend in the circle that your mother was paid off, and about that topic concerning Song Qiao’s mother, it was your mother who personally said it to others..."

Although no one knows if it’s true or not, after all, the Song Group was quite well-known in An City at the time, and Song Qiao’s mother and the president of Song Group were a well-known couple when they were young. But after Song Qiao’s mother passed away, the president of Song Group married Song Xi’s mother.

Song Xi rarely talked about family matters with her, but she did mention it, albeit not much.

Song Xi didn’t hide her status as an illegitimate daughter either. When she spoke about it, she even joked, "Actually, I envied my sister back then because she always had our father’s company, while I, from birth, was always fretting about a living with my mother. When I was three, I once had a fever when my mom wasn’t home, and I was left in a daze from the pain. If our landlord hadn’t found me, perhaps there wouldn’t be a Song Xi now."

Song Xi went through a lot as a child. She didn’t have what Song Qiao had at all. So, when she was brought back to the Song Family, and her own mother became Madam Song, she got everything she wanted. Initially, she wanted to get along with Song Qiao, but after her mother kept muttering about these things, there was a different voice inside her, one that wanted to take everything from Song Qiao.

Song Xi’s eyes widened, and she asked with a bit of bewilderment, "What did you say?"

The assistant was taken aback by Song Xi’s reaction and repeated the earlier words, "I heard from a friend in the circle that your mother was paid off, and about that topic concerning Song Qiao’s mother, it was your mother who personally said it to others..."

The color slowly drained from Song Xi’s face, stunned, shaking her head, "That...that’s impossible, my mother wouldn’t do such a thing..."

The assistant looked at Song Xi, hesitated, then sighed helplessly, saying, "But Xiao Xi, have you forgotten how your mother threatened you a couple of days ago?"

Song Xi’s face turned even paler, the assistant’s words reminding her of her mother asking for ten million a few days ago.

After the Song Family went bankrupt, her mother left her behind and ran off with a man almost her age, and there was no news ever since. She returned to An City recently, demanding ten million from her directly.

Ten million... it was indeed something she could come up with nowadays, but it was also not a small amount. Besides, when the Song Group went bankrupt, there were some debts left. She used much of her money to repay those debts, leaving her with not much.

She wasn’t able to produce ten million immediately and questioned what her mother would need such money for. After pressing for a long time, it was revealed that after her mother ran away with that man, they had been living off her mother’s money. That man was just a lazy bum, and recently he got into gambling, borrowing high-interest loans and owing ten million altogether. If it wasn’t paid within a week, they would cut off the man’s hands, leaving her mother no choice but to come to her for help.

Song Xi didn’t immediately give her ten million, but asked for five days, and today is the third day. She hadn’t expected such a commotion to unfold now.