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The banquet hall had been left with an eerie atmosphere because of the recent commotion, but luckily, Han Yongmei was adept at smoothing things over, and soon it was as if nothing had happened.
Mu Lan let out a silent sigh of relief and looked towards Huo Tingxiao.
"Did you know from the start that he was your brother?"
"Yeah."
"But before you..."
When she got halfway through her sentence, Mu Lan felt it was rather pointless, as if she was deliberately holding onto something.
He should have been the one to feel worst about it, facing a half-brother with the same father but different mothers, who had suddenly shown up and hurled such unpleasant words at him.
She had met Xian Yaping early on and took an instant dislike to her. It wasn't merely because of her scheming; more importantly, the woman was full of machinations.
"The Huo Family has always been very complicated, so is that why you wanted to leave?"
