[Bonus chapter] My Mother?

'Isn't it because of your influence?'

Yue Yue shook her head. Living with people with scary observations, she had to up her game a little or she'd look like a simpleton between them. Well, she was indeed still far off but it was better than before when she always stayed clueless about what was happening.

'I just realized you have never spoken like this before to anyone. You never bring up your status or noble birth to put down people. It's the first time for me to see this.'

Mu Chenyan smiled at her, "To say, I'm not proud of the family I was born in would be wrong. Maybe I don't throw my weight around using my family's prestige but I'm very proud. I have three families to be proud of. My Mu family died on the battlefields saving soldiers. My adopted family the Xiang have also sacrificed their everything for the homeland. And my Gou family is also serving the people of this homeland. I think I have the right to be proud."

'But you never speak of it.'