Zi Han remembered now.
In the original novel, the main storyline had not begun until the characters were already adults. Their high school years appeared only in scattered memories, brief scenes meant to explain how certain relationships, especially the most destructive one, had begun. And the most important of those flashbacks had always been about Ming Ye and the female lead, Yu Wuxian.
Yu Wuxian was mixed. Her father was from Country G and her mother from Country C. According to the story, her parents' marriage had ended badly. Her father, an oil magnate with an enormous fortune, had been domestically abusive. When Yu Wuxian's mother finally gathered the courage to divorce him, she had begged her daughter to leave with her. She feared that if Yu Wuxian remained behind, the same violence might eventually turn toward her.
Yu Wuxian chose her mother.
