To avoid hurting their adopted daughter's feelings, the parents had never officially added the original host to the family register. They merely brought her home to live, assigning her a bedroom converted from a cluttered storage room.
The original host had been very driven. It took her only five years to go from being completely illiterate to the top student in her class. She achieved this entirely through self-study, without any tutoring from Mr. Deng, all while enduring bullying both at home and at school.
It wasn't until her parents sent her away to the countryside that the original host finally realized she could no longer cling to a family that would never favor her. She chose to repay them for giving her life by leaving, allowing their favored family unit to remain together in the city.
Though, in the end, it was merely jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
