Jian Anning's rhetorical question suddenly left Jian Panying at a loss for words.
"Are you saying that I don't look good, that my family has no money or power, or are you saying—because my parents are divorced, you're afraid people will laugh at me?"
"How can you talk like that, child!" Jian Panying, embarrassed by her words, immediately replied, and after a pause, said, "Leaving aside other things, just talking about his family. You're going to marry into their family. How do his parents treat you? Your mother suffered in the past, getting along poorly with your grandmother, and later divorced your father, mostly because of this."
This was something Jian Anning knew well—her grandmother had a stubborn temperament and even interfered enough to split her father and Aunt Qiu apart. However, her grandmother treated her very well, and she wasn't about to form any opinion against her grandmother based on her mother's words alone.
