"What 'important business' could a girl in mourning possibly have? We have so many elders waiting out here. How unfilial must she be to hide inside and refuse to see us?" Seeing the crowd grow, the corpulent Mrs. Xu Zhong spoke with even greater satisfaction.
They lived in a neighboring town and had only found out a few days ago that the entire Zhou Family had been wiped out, leaving only the daughter of Xu Wenhua's former wife.
With such a vast fortune in the hands of a single girl, how could they—her biological father and stepmother—not come over to assert their interests?
Fearing Xu Nuo would refuse them entry, they had even made a point of persuading a few elders from the Xu Family to come along. After all, she was still a child of the Xu Family; they didn't believe she would be so ill-mannered.
