"Mom... would I really swear on our family's bamboo grove so casually? I honestly didn't hear her call my name! She just yelled 'hey.' How was I supposed to know she was talking to me?" Lin Qiao said, sidling up to her mother and hugging her arm to get on her good side.
"Don't let it happen again, even if you were to swear on my life instead," Lin Qiao's mother said, poking her daughter's forehead.
"I would never! In my heart, you're worth a million times more than that bamboo grove," Lin Qiao said, shaking her head vigorously.
"Sweet talk won't get you out of this. Remember what I said, or I won't go easy on you next time. It won't matter how much honey you coat your words with," her mother said, refusing to let it go.
"Okay, okay, I get it! I won't make casual oaths anymore, all right?" Lin Qiao nodded quickly when she saw her mother was starting to get genuinely angry.
