Bribing his mother's assistant? Gathering information about his mother? Collecting dirt on his sister?
Everyone around the courtyard who heard this was stunned.
No one would accept being secretly bribed to spy on and investigate their assistant.
Moreover, it's an adopted daughter with no blood relation who's being so aggressive towards her adoptive mother. What does this mean? Is she wary of her adoptive mother and trying to use her mother to deal with her older sister?
"—Nan Weixia!"
The more Nan's mother thought about it, the colder her heart became. Her expression towards Nan Weixia changed. Upstairs, Nan Weixia shrank back in fright and staggered backward.
Even through the window, everyone could see her pale face, and her lips were trembling incessantly.
"No, Mom, you have to believe me, I didn't—"
She tried to argue in vain, but judging from her behavior alone, one could tell that everything Assistant Yue said was true.
Nan's mother looked increasingly disappointed: "How did you become such a person? Go to the study and wait for me."
"Mother!"
Nan's mother ignored her and turned cold, saying to the housekeeper, "Go and warn everyone in the house that none of this should be told to anyone."
This is to keep the news under wraps—although Nan Weixia's actions have thoroughly disappointed her, Nan Weixia is still the second young lady of the Nan family. If her unpleasant affairs were to get out, it would be a disgrace to the entire Nan family.
Nan's mother had just finished giving her instructions when she looked up and saw Tong Su peering curiously through the doorway.
The girl had been discharged from the hospital less than half a month ago, and her energy had not yet fully recovered. Despite taking various nutritional supplements, her cheeks remained thin, making her eyes appear even darker and clearer, pale and fragile, which was heartbreaking to see.
Nan's mother, who was initially furious, couldn't help but soften her heart.
"Yaoyao, what are you doing here? Did you see Dr. Chu off? How is her injury healing going?"
She went over and babbled on, personally pushing Tongsu back into the house. When she touched Tongsu's hand, it was still ice cold. She became anxious and said, "Why is it so cold? Did you catch a chill? Quickly, have someone make you some brown sugar ginger water!"
"Mom, I'm fine, don't worry about me," Tongsu said, holding her mother's hand with her free right hand. She looked up with a smile and asked with concern, "I'm indoors all day, how could I get cold?"
She patted the blanket on her knees again: "And I'm wearing a blanket too. But you, Mom, did you just get back? It snowed yesterday, and it's freezing outside. Mom, don't wear such thin clothes just to look pretty. You should wear something thicker."
Nan's mother just returned from a banquet.
For banquets, one naturally needs to wear formal attire, which looks beautiful and luxurious, but offers absolutely no protection against the cold.
Even though she was always chauffeured around, it was winter after all, and every time she went in and out, the cold wind would whistle into her skirt and sleeves. Nan's mother thought she had long since gotten used to it, but after Tong Su's words, she felt a chill.
Her heart softened, and the warmth almost dispelled the cold: "Oh dear, Yaoyao is worried about her mother? Her mother is strong and healthy, how could anything happen to her?"
Tongsu frowned and shook her head: "No, no, when you bring over the boiled brown sugar ginger water later, Mom wants to have a bowl too."
"Okay, okay, Yaoyao, let Mom drink it. Of course Mom will drink it."
Before the ginger water arrived, a warm current seemed to flow into Nan's mother's heart, driving away all the chill in her body, and she smiled even more happily.
One daughter secretly bribed her assistant to find out her whereabouts; another daughter, concerned about her health, threw a tantrum and made her drink ginger water to ward off the cold.
It was fine before there was any comparison, but now that we've compared them, how can we not see who truly cares about her?
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