The two elderly were puzzled about why their son suddenly changed his mind and abandoned his perfect girlfriend for an ugly duckling, who had no looks, no figure, and no substance, and might never transform into a swan!
Gong Lanfang's brother and sister-in-law were deeply troubled by this, but Gong Lanfang felt her nephew was acting strangely, with a strikingly abrupt change in personality. Having been through her daughter's ordeal, Gong Lanfang suspected some supernatural force might be at play.
However, Gong Lanfang's brother and sister-in-law were intellectuals who believed only in science, viewing supernatural matters as superstitious nonsense and feudal relics, dismissing them entirely. Even Gong Lanfang herself had thought this way, until her daughter Jiajia's incident made her reconsider.
