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Chapter 156 The Red Plum and the Beauty
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2024-10-29 19:42:56In Ning Huaiyuan's room, Ning Ziyan asked with a gloomy face, "Brother, why don't you mention mother anymore? If you put a good word for mother, she would be released." Just now, she was stopped by Xia Yuhang who warned her not to interfere in the affairs of the Lord Protector's Manor by great strength.
A woman had to obey her husband after getting married. And Xia Yuhang had been neither enthusiastic nor indifferent to her, so Ning Ziyan dared not disobey Xia Yuhang. Xia Yuhang had left first, and there only were Ning Ziyan and Ning Huaiyuan in the room now, so Ning Ziyan straightforwardly asked Ning Huaiyuan, ignoring taboos. She believed that her brother was also concerned about mother, otherwise, he, who had always been courteous, would not go to the Buddha Hall first instead of greeting grandmother first as soon as he heard that something had happened to his mother.
Ning Huaiyuan smiled and said, "Sister, how are you and Yuhang doing recently?"
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