"All right, other families' affairs have nothing to do with us. You needn't take it so hard," Lady Liu said soothingly.
Yet deep down, she felt a faint ache herself.
A perfectly good daughter had actually been treated like that.
Some people truly did not deserve to be parents!
Liu Wan had a daughter too. She could not help holding Wanwan a little tighter, her emotions tangled.
At Attendant Li's Residence.
Tian brought Li Qian back to her courtyard. Once the maids and nannies had left, she slapped Li Qian across the face.
"Kneel!"
Li Qian covered her cheek, her eyes red, and knelt just as she always had before!
"How did I give birth to such a disgraceful thing? Couldn't you endure even one more day? Once you married Liu Shi, you could have liked whichever woman you pleased without anyone discovering it, yet now you've made this mess! If the Liu Family lets this get out, you might as well die!"
Tian unleashed a torrent of abuse on Li Qian.
She had called in so many favors just to secure the opportunity for this marriage.
Now she had lost the wife and the soldiers both!
She had gained nothing, offended quite a few people, and even owed the Liu Minister's Residence a favor!
"Do you think I don't want to die?" Li Qian's eyes were bloodshot, despair filling their depths as she roared, "I wanted to die when I was ten!"
Ten!
As though recalling something, Tian slapped her across the face again!
Livid, she said, "I did it all for your own good! If I hadn't covered this up for you, your reputation would have been a puddle of rotten mud long ago. Who would ever dare marry you?"
She knew Li Qian was referring to her