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"I am not your daughter-in-law."
Mai Xiaomai could no longer endure it.
"Xiaotian has always treated me as his mother, how are you not my daughter-in-law? Even if you're not, as the mistress of this household, knowing that there are distinguished guests at home, yet you abandon them without a care, did your parents never teach you how to be a hostess?"
"My parents taught me a lot, but I'm curious, didn't your parents ever teach you how to be a guest?"
Mai Xiaomai hated it the most when she brought up her own parents—it was simply unbearable.
