The Music Ends, But the People Don't Disperse

A private room, a private meeting.

As the one holding the evidence, Aunt Xue ought to have been perfectly composed. At most, she should have felt some regret at seeing someone fail to live up to expectations.

But when Li Wan dismissed all the servants, Aunt Xue suddenly began to panic.

Though she was nearly forty, she had hardly ever handled any major matter on her own. Even when faced with the estate her husband had left behind after his death, she had always preferred avoidance. Otherwise, the Xue Family's business would not have declined so badly in recent years that it could barely stay afloat.

Yet what she now had to face was the complicated affair between her nephew's wife and her brother-in-law!

What exactly should she do?

Should she rebuke Li Wan directly and righteously?

Or should she first sound her out indirectly?

What if Li Wan refused to admit it?

She... she seemed to have no proof at all.

Could she really put it all out in the open and make a huge scandal of it?

That panic inevitably reached its peak when Li Wan approached with a blank expression.

Had her sleeves not concealed them, Aunt Xue's trembling hands would likely have escaped neither Li Wan's gaze nor notice.

Just as Aunt Xue could barely resist guiltily looking away, Li Wan before her suddenly dropped straight down.

"Aunt."

Li Wan said resolutely, "Every fault is mine alone. Your niece-in-law no longer hopes that Aunt or Mother-in-law will forgive me. Once I return, I am willing to spend the rest of my life atoning for my sins!"

As she spoke, she heavily knocked her head against the floor, then cried sorrowfully, "But Lan-ge is Mother-in-law's own grandson. I beg Aunt, for the sake of his dead father,