His Troubled Thoughts Were Equally Hard to Untangle

"Mother?"

The soft call startled Aunt Xue from her daze. She instinctively turned to look at her daughter, only to find Baochai frowning as she examined the plate before her.

Aunt Xue hurriedly lowered her gaze and saw a large, glistening slice of venison on the plate, with a half-moon bite missing from it. Clearly, she had already taken a bite herself.

At once, her stomach began to churn.

Ever since her husband's death twelve years ago, she had rarely eaten meat, much less such greasy fatty meat.

"Honestly, Mother, eating something so greasy in this weather—how is your stomach supposed to digest it?"

Baochai reproached her half-seriously as she handed over a cup of tea. Aunt Xue snatched it up and drained it in one gulp, only then feeling somewhat better.

Li Wan, seated opposite them, took in the mother and daughter's exchange and quietly became more vigilant.

Those outrageous words from last night had clearly affected Aunt Xue deeply.

Though that had been precisely what Li Wan wanted, Aunt Xue was so absent-minded that if someone questioned her too soon and got the truth out of her, would that not spoil everything?

No!

She had to move things along faster!

Otherwise, once they returned to Rongguo Mansion, Aunt Xue would find it even harder to keep her mouth shut in front of her own mother-in-law.

But an affair was not some radish one could simply pull from the ground.

Even if both parties were willing, it still required the right timing and circumstances for things to fall naturally into place.

Besides...

She still had not managed to contact Sun Erlang. What exactly he intended to do remained uncertain.

Alas~

Li Wan sighed gloomily. Picking up her chopsticks, she fished out a taro piece the size of a peanut