The thing the two elders had feared most had been eased by more than half!
At the very least, they no longer needed to protect them with their lives.
"Granddaughters-in-law, come, come! Let me tell you some wonderful news."
Dongshen Yue called Jiang Feiling and the others over and told them the good news.
For a time, everyone was overjoyed, and the atmosphere was warm and harmonious.
However!
Just then, an uninvited guest disrupted the joyful mood here.
It was a woman dressed in a purple gown.
In appearance, she was roughly the equivalent of a forty-five-year-old in the Vermilion Bird Kingdom. Though she had begun to age, she still retained some of her charm.
This woman was exceedingly flamboyant. Although she was no longer young, she dressed in a very girlish manner. Her attire resembled that of Seventh Vein Master Lin Wuyi, and her face was caked in heavy makeup, with plenty of expensive cosmetics concealing her wrinkles.
That made her look rather out of place.
Yet she was quite confident in herself.
Thus, when she walked, she carried herself with the air of I'm the most beautiful woman under heaven. Whenever she met someone's gaze, her eyes brimmed with impatient disdain.
Jiang Feiling and the others all recognized her.
She was the mother of Seventh Vein Master Lin Wuyi. She had once served as a vein master herself before stepping down, and was now also a member of the Lin Clan Ancestral Hall. Her status was comparable to that of Lin Xiaoyun's father, "Lin Yun."
She was somewhat younger than Lin Yun.
Therefore, she was nearly a generation younger than Lin Xiao and Dongshen Yue.
"Lin Ziqing? What are you doing here?"
The smile vanished completely from Dongshen Yue's face when she saw this woman.
Like mother, like