Growing up Qilin Hao respected her elders more especially her grandmother because as long as this woman spoke her father would hold back a little.
She was like a leash strong enough to restrain a vicious dog. She rarely tugged on this leash to hold back her son but when she did it was like magic. The clan leader would listen.
Now one would think with such a superpower like this she would do good with it but no she didn't. When her son forced Qilin Hao's mother into coupling she didn't say anything.
When Qilin Hao was born and torn away from her mother she didn't even glance her way. When Qilin Hao was humiliated countless times and treated less than a servant her grandmother was nowhere to be seen.
Her silence was not because she didn't know what was happening. She knew because she was the oldest patriarch and nothing that happened in the clan blew by her. She knew it all but chose to do nothing.