"If the girl is married, why would she urge her to go home every day and make it sound as if she was some promiscuous daughter who only went to play and didn't return home?" Someone in the crowd asked.
"What do you know? Why do you think a step-mother would say something so damaging in public?" Another one whispered.
Even though it was called a whisper, these people's voices weren't low at all.
Almost everyone could hear them.
Xia Xinya's mother was gnashing her teeth as she listened.
'What happened to this stupid girl? Didn't she always try to hide her marriage with Mo Shian? No matter what I said before, she just smiled and promised to change. What went wrong?' she wondered secretly.
However, she couldn't let the kind and loving image she had created for so many years crumble here.
She would have to make that girl restore her reputation.
She turned around to continue playing the loving mother only to find the space next to her empty.
