As a hubbub broke inside the room, she smugly hooked her lips upward in schadenfreude.

Ji Lin, Qin Zhou, and Xiao Xue stiffened in shock, for they did not see this coming. Sitting behind them was a row of Huanyu’s senior management, who was all looking equally stunned and baffled. They did not know how the reporter had found out that their artist was a mother of two when they themselves were unaware of it.

Color drained from Yun Shishi’s visage, meanwhile. She clearly was not expecting such questions based on her trembling voice when she asked through the microphone, “P-Pardon?”

“You haven’t held a wedding, and from the information I got, you only registered your marriage last year, but your sons are already seven years old. This means that you’re only eighteen when you gave birth to the twins; you must be still schooling at that age, right? What’s the reason behind you becoming an unwed mother while you’re still a student? Can you explain it?”

Her body swayed and her mind drew a blank as she took an involuntarily step backward.

A myriad of stinging memories flooded her mind all at once before they got swept away by a large force. Darkness descended upon her and it felt as if the world was spinning around her.

Don’t ask me that…

Don’t ask me that…

Her memories of returning to school after her childbirth was evoked. She could see herself entering the room and her classmates looking at her strangely as they exchanged gossip in hushed voices.

Familiar voices rang in her mind once more. ‘She sure has got some guts to return to school…’

‘Last summer vacation, I saw her getting into a Bentley with a bulging tummy. Like a young madam, she even had someone helping her into the car…’

‘Was it an unplanned pregnancy?’

‘Hmph! Aren’t there rumors about her being a kept woman? She must’ve accidentally gotten herself pregnant, and then being the money-grubber she is, she probably signed some sort of agreement to give birth to the child. That’s why she took a leave of absence from school…’

‘Her family is heavily in debt, after all. She’s actually quite the pitiful soul!’

‘How on Earth is she pitiful? A young lady selling her body and becoming a kept woman makes her no different from a wh*re!’

‘I thought that those are just groundless rumors. I didn’t know they’re true… Gosh, appearances can indeed be deceiving. To think she looks so pure and innocent…’

‘Only under special circumstances does the school allow students to take a leave of absence. She’s apparently not sick. If it’s really an unplanned pregnancy, the school would expel her if they were to learn of it…’

‘There are rumors saying that it’s through connections that she managed to take a leave of absence from school…’

‘What a sl*t!’

…

No, I’m not a sl*t…

I was truly at the end of my wits back then.

It’s not my wish to become a surrogate for the Mus… I was only forced by circumstances…

At that time, the creditors pestered us every day using all sorts of ways to get my father to pay off his debts. It’s only out of desperation and soft-heartedness that I did that!

I’m not a sl*t…

“I’m not…”

Her lips quivered as she looked up with red-rimmed eyes and a pallid expression.

Upon noticing that something was off with her best friend, Xiao Xue immediately walked up to her concernedly and supported her arm. The latter, however, realized with a start that the former’s skin was icy-cold.