Tong Juan said to Tong Lu, "Older sister, you've always been prone to misbehavior, but this time you've crossed the line, causing such a ruckus. I genuinely feel ashamed of you. How could you do such a thing and throw the country into disarray?"
Xia Manwen seized the opportunity to speak out as well. "Even though you're not my biological daughter, you're still Guohua's child. It's all my fault. I rarely monitored your behavior and let you cause such a big problem. Mr. President, I'm not Tong Lu's biological mother. It was already difficult for me to parent her to begin with. Now I can't even do anything with her anymore. She's made a mistake. You're free to punish her as you wish. If she doesn't know what's right or wrong, she might cause even more trouble in the future… her father and I are really..."
