'Where was the most effective place to apply pressure?'
'He was as stubborn as they come, and his family couldn't do a thing about him. Plus, he used to be away from home so often that they had a fixed image of him, and they were afraid that pushing too hard would just make him stop coming back altogether.'
'As for Gu Muxue? She was his old man's favorite candidate for a daughter-in-law; he couldn't spoil her enough.'
'That only left Lin Ruoxi. Xie Jianfeng was probably trying to find a gentle way to drive her away.'
'But the poor girl wouldn't be able to handle it.'
'So, the plan was to let his old man meet Lin Ruoxi, this sweet girl who was always getting the short end of the stick, and make him feel too guilty to open his mouth.'
"I… I thought you weren't coming, so I ate your breakfast," Lin Ruoxi said in a small voice, not daring to look Xue Rui in the eye, like a child who'd gotten into trouble.
"Then you owe me one breakfast," Xue Rui said, playing along with her.
