Chapter 330

Zoe did not expect that it would still hurt in every way possible.

"We let you in not out of sympathy but to make sure you understand your status now. Don't appear here ever again for your own sake, because our family will never accept you," Alan said, watching her dispassionately just then. "We wouldn't have been this cold if you weren't Ivan's illegitimate child."

Yes.

Her fault was being an illegitimate child—her birth was impermissible in the first place.

"But is this my fault? Did I get to choose my own birth?" Zoe asked with neither rage nor grief—only confusion. "Why am I supposed to suffer everything?"

There was a flash of emotion in Alan's eyes, and he said, "You're not at fault, but it happened to you anyway. And that is why you must endure it."

Zoe's tears trickled out along the corner of her eye—so this world was really that unfair.

She never hurt anyone, but she had to suffer this anyway.

"Is there a reason for our family to accept you? That would be a slap to ou