Bai Yiran was taken aback. She wasn't staying at any classmate's house; that was just an excuse she made up to deceive her family. "Oh, she has something going on tonight, so she probably can't come. Anyway, I'll be going back home!"
After hanging up the phone, Bai Yiran felt a vague sense of unease.
It had been a long time since she had gone home. After informing Leng Yichen, she headed straight to her grandmother's house after work. She even took a taxi back to avoid her grandmother sensing anything unusual.
Upon entering the house, Bai Yiran was startled because she saw her cousin Cheng Shishi crouching pitifully on the ground, surrounded menacingly by her grandmother, uncle, and aunt, as if conducting an interrogation.
"What are you doing? What happened to Shishi?" Bai Yiran thought that Cheng Shishi must have done something wrong again and was being judged by the family tribunal.
