Chapter 279
The family held its weekly banquet as usual.
Lin Xiaoliu had only just returned from the martial academy when she found herself being scolded by her mother.
"How could you be so reckless? Regardless of how strong your perception is, your first priority should have been to find a teacher at the academy—not to handle it yourself. What if that man had turned on you in fury? What would you have done? Do you have any sense of self-preservation at all?" Liu Shenglan's face was stern. She made her youngest daughter stand at attention and delivered every word of the dressing-down with deliberate force.
"It's just that Song Yunhui is my classmate..." Lin Xiaoliu stole a glance at her father nearby, then quickly dropped her gaze.
"Classmate or not, you completely overstepped yourself!" Liu Shenglan snapped. "You think our family has made a name for itself in Black Cloud—that we carry some weight. But isn't all of that because your third brother puts his life on the line every day? What does any of it have to do with you? Are you even close enough to your third brother that he could reach you in time if you ran into real danger?" The more she spoke, the more agitated she became, until her words began running ahead of her thoughts.
Nearby, Lin Hui—who had been chatting with Liu Xiao—went slightly still.
These days, apart from cultivating, he mostly settled into quiet Dao contemplation, spent time with Liu Xiao, and enjoyed the ordinary pleasures of domestic life. "Putting his life on the line every day"...
Observing his second mother's current state, he wisely chose to stay out of Lin Xiaoliu's discipline altogether.
"All right, all right, Mother. As long as Little Sister understands where she went wrong, it's fine. For now, I'll have people escort her to and from school—that should cover things on the road. Once we figure out who that purple-robed man is, the matter will be easy enough to resolve." At the adjacent table, Liu Wujun smoothed things over with an easy smile, unhurriedly eating fried peanuts.