The arrogance Mother Jiang had been clinging to vanished like a pricked balloon. In an instant, her vitality drained away, and she seemed to age ten years.
"Don't try to provoke me with such words!" Mother Jiang turned her face away, unable to help but dwell on the hardships of the past years. "The Jiang family is not like other families. It’s just a pity you aren’t from the Lu family. If you had been born into the Lu family, you would understand."
This was a jab, mocking the fact that Xu Qinghuan was not the daughter of Song Wanlin and her current husband.
Chapter 25