Chairman Li didn't mean to overhear his daughter's conversation with Tang Moyu. When he heard from his son that Meili had just been discharged from the hospital, he was plagued with worry about his daughter. He'd known that she wasn't feeling well for the past week and thought that she was just truly saddened by Tang Moyu's car accident.
So when he came home early that day, he decided to check on Li Meili and have a short talk with her. He wanted her to know that she didn't need to worry about her marriage arrangement anymore as long as she would return home to their family.
He knew that Tang Moyu had been a great influence on Li Meili's life and he cannot force his daughter to cut off her ties with the empress. Chairman Li owed a lot of things to Tang Moyu for taking care of Li Meili when she had chosen to leave them.
