"She treated me as a friend and told me everything when I turned 16."
This included how her dad and her current stepmother were caught flirting inappropriately, and how her mother, being a proud woman, couldn't endure her husband's betrayal and eventually chose to divorce.
She knew all these things.
No matter what, the grievances of the previous generation are their business; her mother also told her that regardless of whether her father betrayed the family in marriage, his love for her was genuine.
As a wife, her mother couldn't forgive her husband's betrayal, and as a mother, she couldn't trust leaving her young daughter with her divorced ex-husband, so she fought to keep her custody, even at the expense of disgracing the Huo Family, and eventually took her far overseas, never setting foot in her homeland for half her life.
