Wu Yu Xuan had never imagined his first birthday back in Beijing would turn out this way. It was a good thing he'd finished the ten packets of herbal medicine Xiao Man prescribed for him; otherwise, he might have been so furious he'd have ended up in the emergency room.
Since it was a case of the young offending an elder, Wu Menan and her two sisters were bound to get a scolding from their grandparents. When Lin Aizhen saw Wu Xiaowen crying her heart out, her jacket torn off and pinch marks on her neck and hands—a truly miserable sight—she flew into a rage. She ordered Wu Xiaoyang to bring the family switch and give the three sisters a good thrashing. But with Yang Qianrong intervening, Wu Xiaoyang couldn't bring himself to actually beat his own children. The family put on an act in the courtyard, all thunder and no rain, and let the matter slide.
