Bravery

Bai Yue meanwhile did not notice anything wrong, she ended her speech with a flourish, a tiny fist punching the air. Xue Ning was impressed at how she managed to memorise that entire spiel. 

Clearly she was very intelligent, or more likely, her mother repeated it enough times that she knew it by heart.

The woman's face turned a blotchy red in embarrassment, refusing to meet either of their eyes. Instead, she glared at her daughter. "Bai Yue! Quiet! How could you say such nonsense in front of them!" 

"Well, you and your daughter aren't wrong!" Jingwei gave a sheepish laugh, a hand rubbing his neck. The daughter was simply parroting her mother's views, and her mother had every right to be upset at how half of her family was stranded 

"Don't worry about it," Xue Ning added, because the atmosphere was becoming unbearably awkward, and young Bai Yue finally realised that she had done something wrong, even if she wasn't sure what it was.