Although she had guessed earlier that it was unlikely that she could get Yuan Bao back, being directly refused by her own mother-in-law still hit Mrs. Xiao Li hard.
She sat there dazed, not moving for a long time.
Mrs. Zeng just watched silently, offering no comfort.
She was genuinely troubled by this daughter-in-law.
Day by day, she had whims and acted on them.
You'd think she was thoughtless, but sometimes she could be quite shrewd. Previously, she considered Yuan Bao, their daughter, to be a worthless burden, and thus treated her carelessly.
In Mrs. Zeng's view, though their eldest granddaughter was indeed a bit smarter than the average child, no matter how clever, she was still a child. What outrageous things must Mrs. Xiao Li have done to force their granddaughter to choose to run away from home instead of staying near her?
Back then, Mrs. Zeng hadn't dug deeper into the matter, but that didn't mean she had forgotten it all.
"Mother, you're biased!"
