Chen Afu had just made a joking comment, but the young lady took it so seriously that it seemed like she was praising herself. She felt a bit embarrassed but still managed to suppress it and not show it.
Meanwhile, she thought that the old Marquis was amusing, not at all like an old-fashioned stubborn lord, quite humorous in fact. With such an open-minded patriarch, along with Mr. Chu she had met before, the men of the Chu family were all decent. The Chu family must indeed be very harmonious.
It must be that so-called princess who was the bad apple that spoiled the whole cluster. She wondered what kind of man Marquis Chu was to involve himself with such a princess. Forced his original wife to leave, drove his only son away to a far-off frontier, and even under his very sight, allowed his daughter to become sick. Perhaps even the death of his daughter-in-law was not natural...