It was not because what had been said had not been clear, but because the other person had said it too clearly.
The problem was that her mom was gone, and she was her mom's only daughter. It was inappropriate to speak ill of her mom in front of her, so the other party had simply chosen to avoid the topic altogether.
Perhaps it was because she was unwilling to give up, or because she wanted to be utterly convinced to give up. Zhou Xing asked a few more families in the quad, but they all told the same story, and they even gave similar descriptions about what had happened at that time. This was a huge blow to Zhou Xing.