'What exactly are you hiding from me? You think that you can blanket it from my eyes with your two left feet acting skills; but nah! So naive of you…' Tang Jiu thought, scrutinizing Nina silently. She smelled the anomaly in the latter at the first glance. Her two eyes were especially designed to scan her daughters' emotions and thoughts.
Moreover, she raised Nina for years and was familiar with every pore of her body. She knew Nina would never cry over a loss of an endorsement, no matter how big it was. Instead, she would get motivated for better and work harder than before.
It was just, Tang Jiu feared, if she bulldozed Nina into confessing, it might snowball her daughter's affliction further. Otherwise, even the wicked witch of the west would fail to untangle herself from her clutch, let alone this delicate lass.
