บท 69: Unattainable love

"Why did you do that?!" Hoy barked at his mother. 

"Why did I do what?" She asked, looking flustered.

"Are you seriously asking me that right now? You fought with aunt Cixi!" 

"That disrespectful woman started it—"

"Mother!" 

His father Li Han, was sitting in a corner, staring at the two of them without trying to take anyone's side. He understood how his wife felt but she had gone too far. Even when he tried to stop her from saying more when the whole family was gathered, she ignored him and went on to have a verbal fight with Cixi. 

"You didn't have any right to do that! I am an adult and so is Joreen. Fighting in public is what you do now?" 

"Do not dare disrespect me. I am your mother." She chided angrily. "You think I wanted to fight with her? Was I the only one who saw the news and realise how much it is going to affect you?"