Xi Muchen was startled, not expecting to hear this answer.
"Sorry for what? It's not that I couldn't let you know..." He softened his voice and asked, "How much did you hear anyway?"
"I probably... heard everything," Xia Wanwan wasn't sure herself, she asked, "What exactly happened? How could Beiyang..."
As she asked, Xi Muchen knew that she must have heard it all, so there was no need to hide anything anymore.
He began to explain patiently, "You must have heard about the accidental death of our father. After he passed away, a mistress came to find my grandfather and my mother. That woman was pregnant, hoping she could enter the Xi Family's home with the status of a daughter-in-law..."
"How could someone be so shameless!" Xia Wanwan cried out in anger upon hearing this, imagining how devastated Xi Muchen's mother must have been at the time.
A husband dies, a mistress knocks on the door, making such shameless demands! Who could tolerate this?