Chapter 162: Chapter 162: The Child is Gone (4)

When Zhong Lingling was brought to a villa-like structure in the Reflection Garden, which was obviously much smaller than the other villas in the Xiang Mansion, her previous bravado had vanished completely.

After the bodyguard had brought her into the Reflection Garden, he closed the gate behind her.

This villa-like Reflection Garden was not meant for living at all.

Carved on the walls around the grand hall of the Reflection Garden were the Xiang Family's family precepts, rules... all sorts of etiquette and moral teachings, and on the table in the hall, there were ancestral portraits of the Xiang Family. Zhong Lingling shuddered at the sight of these portraits, but then she thought, they were just a few photos, what was there to be afraid of?

Besides, there was a long, wide wooden bench placed in the center of the hall, its use unknown.