Xue Xingyao went to the main courtyard with red-rimmed eyes.
One look was all Mrs. Xue needed to know why. That father and daughter had just left; they must have run into each other.
'She was sick with worry.'
She could swallow her own grievances, but she couldn't bear to see her children suffer the same injustice.
Her two sons were fine. They were the men of the family, the ones who would one day support the Duke Mansion, so everyone in the Xue Family, from top to bottom, valued them.
But Ah Yao was different. Her father ignored her, and the old madam was fixated on marrying her into a higher-status family to benefit the Xue Family, placing strict demands on her.
In contrast, no matter what Xue Yunshu wanted to do, Duke Xue would support her.
With the Duke's intervention, it was useless even if the old madam objected. She would always end up compromising with her own son.
