In Huaxia, a nation with a history stretching back thousands of years, even parents and children, or siblings as close as one's own hands and feet, often fail to bare their hearts to one another despite their deep blood ties. Voicing one's innermost thoughts is considered something of a shameful act.
Chen Yuan had grown up with this very mindset.
He always kept things bottled up inside, processing them silently. Sometimes, he'd rather talk to his friends than his adoptive parents.
That night, for once, he told Jiangg Yao so much about himself. He spoke of his family, his childhood, his likes and dislikes—he laid his heart bare for her to see.
He even told her about moving to Kyoto with his biological father to attend an exclusive school, and the deep sense of inferiority his school and classmates instilled in him.
He had gone from living in a small county town that didn't even have a KFC to suddenly being whisked away to one of Huaxia's greatest cities.
