Ling Buyi stood frozen in the middle of the room, watching the confrontation unfold before her eyes. She had seen her mother angry before, but never like this. The sight of Madam Chen, her face flushed with fury, was something entirely new. The room felt like it was closing in on her, each word exchanged between her mother and in-laws sharper than the last.
Madam Chen's voice was shaking with outrage as she stared at Yuan Fei's parents. "Are you two even human?" she spat, her eyes burning with indignation. "You dare to treat my daughter this way, and then have the nerve to claim her house is yours? Where do you get the audacity to say something as stupid as that?"
