Gu Nuan had fully grasped her father-in-law's thoughts. So, when Xiao Jianming's gaze fell on her with implied meaning, Gu Nuan simply looked calmly at the cup of tea in her hands.
Xiao Jianming said to Yang Zhilin, "You said you want to be my daughter-in-law."
"Yes," Yang Zhilin replied, loud and proud, in front of Gu Nuan.
A mistress could be so brazenly righteous in front of a wife only because she had the world's biggest demon backing her—money.
Gu Nuan suddenly remembered how she had unexpectedly returned home back then, and then met Yebai; wasn't it because a woman, just like Yang Zhilin, had flaunted her money in front of her and yelled at her?
Coincidentally, Gu Nuan's ex-boyfriend, to be precise, had not been seduced away by a mistress, but by money.
Having learned a lesson as deep as blood, naturally, once bitten, twice shy. Could she, Gu Nuan, allow herself to be humiliated again?
