"How did she become like this? It's like she really doesn't recognize us at all?" Mrs. Gu's face was filled with worry. "The last time I saw her in the city, she wasn't like this. Although she pretended not to know me and my sister-in-law, she was hostile towards outsiders and to her sister-in-law. But just now, she actually smiled at me and you—a timid smile, such a distant smile. The way she looked at me and you, truly, it was like we were strangers."
The hostility that was there the last time they met was now gone from her. If Mrs. Gu had suspected He Zhilan was pretending last time, this time, Mrs. Gu truly began to worry.
