"No. Gale, if you had always been the heiress of the Yarn family, I would still have known you. There are only a few upper-class families in Sea City. I couldn't have missed you."

"But our acquaintance would have been superficial. We wouldn't have interacted, and all of that… wouldn't have happened."

Shawn fell silent for a while. Finally, he sighed. "In that case, I wish I never knew you. I don't want you to go through the pain and love you that way."

It was Shawn's greatest regret. He threw her into a mental hospital and tortured her mentally and physically for two years.

If Gale had not met him, none of that would have happened. Shawn hoped that they never met. She would be doing well, protected and loved by others around her.

Gale understood what he was thinking. "Back then, you thought my dad was the one who killed your father, and I was the daughter of your father's murderer. We both believed there was a blood feud between us," she said.

"I shouldn't have harmed you and ven