Seeing Xia Lu's expression, Xia Zhiqiu knew she hadn't come up with any countermeasures either.
"Then let's just cancel it, come up with any excuse to get out of it. If you don't want to go, they can't force you," Xia Zhiqiu suggested. "If you don't want to bring it up, I'll do it. I'll say I don't want to go and will stubbornly keep you behind to keep me company."
Seeing her daughter distressed, Xia Zhiqiu felt even more uncomfortable and thought that this might be a good idea.
"No need, I can go," Xia Lu didn't want to ruin everyone's plans because of her. If she had really considered her feelings, she would have refused when Ye Shaotang first proposed the idea. Why didn't she refuse? Was it really that hard to say no? She asked herself.
