Su Xiaofei knew that she needed to be careful with her actions, that she shouldn't let others suspect that she knew things that they didn't. They might think that she had lost her mind and she would be forced to be separated from her mother again. It was something that she didn't want repeating in this life.
When she came downstairs to join her mother for lunch, she found Yun Qingrong speaking frantically in a low voice over her phone, her back facing Su Xiaofei. She was pacing back and forth, her whole body was tense as she pondered how she should explain his absence yet again to their daughter.
"Didn't you promise?" She hissed to whoever she was talking to, but Su Xiaofei surmised that it was her useless adoptive father.
