So much has happened at home?
Wang Jian genuinely didn't know. He frowned, wanting to ask, but held back and continued to listen to Xu Qian.
"As for why the business went south, I don't know either. When I asked him, he wouldn't say. Later, when I came home for the New Year, I asked Dad, and to my surprise, he didn't know either."
"It's rather funny, actually," Xu Qian said with a self-mocking laugh. "After the New Year, a thug showed up at our house. If I hadn't been cooking with a knife in my hand and managed to chase him off, who knows what might have happened."
"I told your elder brother about it later, and at first, he tried to comfort me."
"But within a couple of days, he started making strange, passive-aggressive remarks, probing to see if I had cheated on him."
"There were rumors going around the village at that time, and they must have reached his ears."
