Brian Chapman and his son approached from a distance. The two of them were empty-handed, their hair disheveled and their clothes messy and dirty. It was obvious there wasn't a woman at home to take care of things. Brian Chapman, in particular, had lost his former swagger. His back was stooped, and he looked a good ten years older.
Tang Xiaonan knew in her bones that Brian Chapman, showing up now with his son, must be there to beg Phoebe Thorne to take him back.
'Hmph. So *now* he realizes how good my aunt is. What took him so long?'
Tang Xiaonan was worried. She was afraid that thoughts of Gentry Chapman would make Phoebe Thorne actually take the scumbag back. In her past life, she'd seen on the news that many women chose to remarry their scumbag husbands because they couldn't bear to be apart from their children. But a scumbag was always a scumbag; they never changed. She couldn't let her aunt jump back into the fiery pit that was the Chapman family.
