"Yes," she replied, tears welling in her eyes. "They took me for a paternity test."

Alex listened to her silently.

"When we got older," Jane continued, as though she couldn't stop after starting to talk about the past, "there were more and more things that they had to spend on. My parents' business was just not making ends meet, so they sold the flat in order to send my siblings to school, but not me. I had to follow them back to their homeland, and they sold me off to a fool for two millions! I was imprisoned for four whole years. Four years without so much as seeing the sun. Do you know why I'm this pale? It's not like I'm this way because I did a lot of skincare, it's because I lived in the basement for four years without coming out at all. I cried, I shouted, but no one wanted to help because they think that we are legally married. Do you know how hopeless I felt? The fool died after that, but then that cripple brought me back to Kidon City. He gambled away all our money. That day