"… Still, I didn't dare to dwell on it. It's only today, when you brought it up, that I faced it – faced the fact that your father's company had likely swindled away by your second uncle."
Hearing her mother say this made her feel desolate and enraged.
She felt aggrieved for her father; she felt enraged because of the injustice her dad had suffered.
"Mom, how couldn't you have suspected them before?" She sniffled and choked out.
Her confrontational attitude made Zhang Manhua purse her lips helplessly. Thereafter, she sighed softly.
"Before, I thought that, since your father and I treated your second uncle's family well, they would never repay kindness with ingratitude, so I repressed that bit of suspicion in my heart."
As time passed, she slowly forgot that bit of suspicion. After all, no matter how foolish or bad a person could be, how could they be that terrible…