Hou Jinhua, already fuming from her encounter with Qiao Yin, hurried to find Gu Chengqiao to vent her anger, only to have her daughter lash out at her before she could. She didn't leave her any face!
Hastily, she grabbed Gu Ranxuan's documents and water cup and threw them all to the ground, yelling, "How dare you speak to me like that? You should be siding with me, not standing on some high ground to lecture me! I'm your mother; it's not your place to teach me a lesson!"
Gu Ranxuan watched her water cup crash to the floor and shatter, saw her documents, which she had spent nights preparing, get drenched and scatter messily across the ground. Her eyes reddened with emotion.
