Cui Xiong felt solemn respect for this maternal grandfather he had never met.
"He wants to take you in because..."
Reason told Cui Xiong that it couldn't possibly be a matter of adoption, but the two Mi brothers' expressions were so strange that he couldn't help setting reason aside to think it through.
Cui Mi nodded firmly. "It's exactly what you think."
Cui Xiong's Adam's apple bobbed. He swallowed hard and murmured, "No way. Is he deliberately trying to provoke Father?"
That guess seemed even more plausible.
Why would their maternal grandfather want to adopt them for no reason?
The siblings on their maternal uncle's side were his actual grandchildren.
"It seems to be because Cousin and the others have no aptitude for cultivation..."
Cui Mi said the matter wasn't complicated.
Cui Xiong said, "...Father won't agree. Even if he does, Grandfather, Grandmother, and the clan elders won't."
Even though their grandparents liked their cousins more and had always been cold toward the brothers, that didn't mean they would let their grandsons be adopted by someone else and become his grandsons. The Cui clan hadn't fallen on such hard times! It made no sense, whichever way you looked at it, so Cui Xiong didn't take it seriously.
One small detail revealed the whole picture.
You could tell from that alone that the relationship between the father-in-law and son-in-law was terrible.
Were Cui Xiao and Cui Zhi the only ones who couldn't handle their relationships with their sons-in-law?
Cui Zhi had a daughter of his own, too.
He doted on her more than anything.
After his eldest daughter came of age, he kept her at home for another three years, only beginning to prepare for her marriage when she was eighteen. The dowry alone cost Cui Zhi four-tenths of his private