The address of 'mother' made her stepmother feel as if she were inebriated.
Bai Zi had emerged from her belly and was raised in her care, but whether in private or public, she could only refer to herself as 'Stepmother'. Bai Zi's mother was the legitimate wife of Bai Yanxi.
In private, her stepmother had often wished that her clever daughter could call her 'mother', but she knew it violated decorum and so she never mentioned it.
Now, as they faced life and death, she felt her daughter's deepest emotions were finally being exposed.
Her stepmother's eyes reddened as she bit her lip, "I did know him before, but that was so many years ago. He's already married and has a child. How could he remember me!"
"Mother, we must at least try!" Bai Zi clung to her hand, "Mana, my survival now depends on you—if not for me, you must at least make an attempt!"
Bai Zi was sure that her mother's relationship with the Supervisor of the Celestial Observatory was far from an ordinary acquaintance.
