"Let me tell you about Huo Jinlan." She'd seen clearly, with Huo Jinlan, the troublemaker, around, their family would never see a day of peace.
"What's wrong with Jinlan?"
"Initially, you saw this girl pitiful and brought her home to raise her as your own. I didn't object! After all, she's just a girl and wouldn't eat us out of house and home. Over the years, our family has treated her like a treasured gem. But I never expected her to harbor certain unseemly intentions."
"What intentions?" Huo Linong asked in surprise.
"Are you pretending not to know or do you really not know?" She couldn't believe her own son could be so dense.
Huo Linong smiled awkwardly, amiably saying, "I'm just not certain, am I? I'm scared of guessing and hurting Jinlan's feelings." Before he had never considered it, but this time after his return, seeing Jinlan clinging to Bei Jiang, her possessiveness was so strong that one couldn't help but speculate.
