Her heart clenched. She forced the smile on her face to look as natural as possible and greeted Kang Li, "Xiao Kang, are you here to see me about something?"
Sure enough, when Kang Li walked out of the yard gate, she headed straight toward where Loo Ping was standing. Her expression was as calm as ever, not showing the slightest abnormality.
"Nothing serious. I just wanted to have a casual chat with Teacher Loo."
There was no doubt that when Captain Kang came home, he told Kang Li what Su Man, Loo Ping, and the other two women had said. It wasn't that a grown man like him wanted to stir up gossip in front of his precious daughter, it was that he really couldn't swallow the fact that his son-in-law and grandchildren were being talked about.
If he weren't a man, he absolutely would have gone up and argued with those women himself. But reality meant he couldn't step in, so he could only bring his three little grandchildren home and repeat what he'd heard.
