Facing her father's distrustful gaze, she silently shed two thick tears inside. Okay, those reasons were indeed true, but they weren't the root cause. Just to save her own knees from punishment and to prevent the person she liked from leaving a bad impression in her father's mind, she had no choice but to tell half-truths.
Mo Qingze, contemplating how to give his daughter a light punishment as a stern lesson, had no idea about the little schemes going on in her mind; otherwise, he certainly wouldn't have gone easy on her and would have chosen a severe punishment instead.