Was I being too hasty?
Li Ye held his daughter in his arms as he quietly puzzled over it.
But after thinking it over carefully, he finally sensed what was off.
If Zhao Meiwen simply wanted to study abroad, then Grandma Wu Juying would have arranged it for Li Ye directly just now. There would have been no need for Zhao Meiwen to tell Li Ye herself.
What, that younger stepsister of yours could go to Hong Kong to study, but this cousin could not? Blood was thicker than water, you know?
So Li Ye asked Zhao Meiwen, "Meiwen, from what Grandma said, is there some hidden reason behind this?"
Zhao Meiwen's face instantly reddened. She lowered her head and started picking at her fingers.
What could make a young girl in the flower of her youth blush? Li Ye immediately guessed something.
But before he could press further, Grandma Wu Juying had already flown into a rage.
"Look at you, look at you! What did I just say? What are you being shy about? Your skin is so thin that you can't even bring yourself to say it at home, yet you want to follow someone else to the foreigners' land and live there?"
"If you were as bright-eyed and bold as your Sister Xiao Yue, we wouldn't be worried. Go wherever you wanted. Grandma understands that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles.
"But you can't even hold your own at home. Once you follow that boy to the Lighthouse, what if he bullies you? What if he sells you? Do you know how far the Lighthouse is? More than twenty thousand li! Your Mother only has you as her daughter."
"..."
After hearing Grandma's words, Li Ye more or less understood