"Mistress, Cousin has come again," Mother Lv hurried in with a plate of sour plums and spoke to Liu Tinglan, who was leaning on a soft couch reading a book, "She personally stewed some chicken soup for you to nourish your health. Look…"
Seeing the anger appearing on the Mistress's face, Mother Lv didn't continue, yet inside, she felt a flicker of resentment toward the Cousin: knowing full well the Mistress didn't want to see her, yet she insisted on coming over, causing the Mistress distress. Didn't she know the Mistress was pregnant and needed to avoid stress and anger for the sake of the baby?
A few days earlier, Cousin had suddenly barged into the house and, in front of all the Shen family servants, said those ambiguous words, causing the Mistress to be wrongly accused of something she hadn't done. Mother Lv had been serving at the side of the Mistress for several months; she knew the Mistress to be nothing but kind and generous and incapable of such acts.
