The Shangguan family took this Grotto Heaven opening very seriously. If not for the fear of alarming the enemy, they might have mobilized the entire family.
Gu Haitang was unaware of family matters, but she had long suspected that if Chu Xuan's identity were revealed in the future, her family would not want her to get involved.
They might even confine her within the family and not allow her to leave.
Yet Gu Haitang had not returned for almost a decade and a half, and her two attempts to visit her mother were met with letters forbidding her return.
Initially, Haitang thought her mother feared she would face punishment for "failing to report" an incident from years ago.
But over the past year, she began to wonder: Could it be that her mother suspected something? Was that why she didn't let her come back?
While feeling moved by her mother's care, Gu Haitang was also worried:
