"Father-in-law, do you see her brazen behavior? How can you let her go like this when she behaves so rudely with elders!" Xia Sirong was desperate, her eyes pleading as she looked at Old Master Xia.
Xia Lihua turned her face to look at Old Master Xia, her expression calm. "Grandpa, I am merely treating Auntie Sirong with the same respect she has always shown me. She does not deserve to sit at the same table as us. She should be with the maids where she belongs."
Xia Sirong's face turned beet red, her hands trembling with anger and humiliation. "You ungrateful brat! After everything I've done for this family!"
"Everything you've done? You mean the years of torment and abuse? The countless times you tried to undermine me?"
"You little piece of sh-"
"Enough!" Old Master Xia yelled, silencing Xia Sirong instantly.
Her face took on an aggrieved expression as if she was facing immense injustice. "Father-in-law..."
