So, with a turn of her cold face, she said to Lu Shenglin: "Lu Zhanbei has always cared about you, so you don't need to doubt his intentions too much. He won't harm you."
These words carried a hint of rebuke.
Clearly, her daughter was very displeased with her. Truth be told, this was the first time Lu Shenglin noticed that her daughter was increasingly estranged. She wanted to close the gap between them, but one lie led to countless more to cover up the truth.
She owed Gu Qianqian an apology, but she couldn't speak the truth.
So, even if her daughter was distancing herself at this moment, she felt it was her own retribution.
In her life, her story had been a tragedy. In order to prevent her own daughter from experiencing the same, she chose to sacrifice another's daughter.
Unknowledgeable of Gu Qianqian's possible lineage, she had not anticipated that the girl could have come from such a well-off family.
