Father Xie's face darkened further. "A little better grades?"
"This year's national Zhuangyuan. Aside from losing two points in Chinese, she got full marks in every other subject.
"She's a brilliant student all the key universities across the country are fighting to admit, a talent the leaders above specifically named for priority development. Is that merely 'a little better'?"
"What?"
Madam Xie was given such a fright that even her voice changed. "She's this year's national Zhuangyuan?"
Her son had mentioned it that day, but she had happened to be thinking about something else and had not heard him clearly.
Madam Xie stubbornly refused to admit defeat. "Even if she is the national Zhuangyuan, isn't she still just a little village girl whose parents are divorced?"
Without power, influence, or family connections, how could she be worthy of her son?
The girl his son married had to come from a good family. That way, she would not only have a promising future herself but could also help the family.
"Hmph. Her mother is divorced, and she is indeed a little village girl, but her partner is Captain Lin's own nephew. Besides, Captain Lin has feelings for her mother."
"Th-this can't be true, can it?" Madam Xie was shocked.
The partner that little girl had mentioned before was actually Captain Lin's own nephew?
Could he be that tall, burly boy who had been following her yesterday?
"What's impossible about it? The two youngsters are engaged. Everyone in the village knows about it."
After standing there in a daze for quite a while, Madam Xie finally found her voice again. "You said Captain Lin is pursuing her mother?"
"Yeah. Judging by the looks of things, there's an eighty or ninety percent chance that's the case. Forget about what you said last time,