"Shi'er, didn't I ask you to bring Lanshan over here?"
Sheng Shi lowered his head slightly, his brows and eyes contracting briefly before he spoke in an unhurried tone, "Lanshan has some matters, so she can't come over."
After a pause, Sheng Shi added, "Grandfather, whatever you want to say, just say it to me, and I'll listen on her behalf."
"Smack—"
Sheng Shi's grandfather set the teacup down heavily onto the table, his usually gentle and benevolent face now exceptionally stern, "Nonsense! You'll listen on her behalf, but those disgraceful deeds she's done, can you do them for her?"
Sheng Shi's grandfather rarely got angry, but after all, he was once a Great General who had commanded the winds and clouds. Now, with such a display of fury, it frightened everyone in the room to hold their breath. Even Sheng Shi's father, a man who had spent his life in the military, tightened his demeanor.
