"Xie Xuning, do you even know how to be a proper father? There should be a limit on spoiling your daughter. Is there any other father out there who spoils their own daughter as much as you do?"

Wu Tong heard from Li Xingchen that Ye Tianxin had actually visited Country Y along with Xie Xinghe. She could feel her temples bulging.

"Do you even know how much Tianxin has suffered in the past? If you were her father, you'd spoil and treat her like a little princess."

Wu Tong's angry expression made Xie Xuning feel the need to provoke her.

Xie Xuning thought Ye Tianxin would've been fortunate to not have to face such problems such as dealing with the mother-in-law issue.

"I've heard that you weren't fond of Tianxin before. Is that true?"

Wu Tong's face instantly turned red. She obviously couldn't lie that she had never said anything like this.

"Well yeah, it's true that I didn't like her that much. Just think about it: if your son brought home a girl and she said, 'I know I don't deserve your son now, but give me a few years to grow into the woman who can definitely be worthy of your son.' I mean..."

Xie Xuning snorted. He felt that his daughter said nothing wrong.

"I think Tianxin made a decent point."

Wu Tong couldn't bear to revisit her dark past, but she felt the need to set the record straight with Xie Xuning. Otherwise, he would've thought that she had something against Tianxin. What would've happened if this affected her son's marriage with Tianxin?

"Yeah, I think Tianxin is great too, I was just being too stubborn back then."

Wu Tong pulled back a chair and sat across Xie Xuning. She said, "Think about it, Xiao Cang has always been the star kid growing up until he suddenly brought this girl back home with him. It's completely normal for me to feel a little uncomfortable about it. I mean it's not like I'm a saint who wouldn't bother fussing about such matters. Besides, Xingchen had also spoken to me about this before: I've slowly begun to see Tianxin's unique strengths. I do sincerely think Tianxin is great now not because she's your daughter... do you get what I mean?

Xie Xuning felt a pain in his heart when he realized that some people would've been appalled by his daughter.

He also heard that during the elder's birthday party, there were people spreading rumors behind her back that she only cared about climbing the ranks.

He blamed himself and thought it was all his fault that his daughter went through something like this.

If he had protected his daughter properly back then, would she still have experienced such a situation?

"Don't worry, Tianxin will be fine, she'll be back very soon."

Xie Xuning then sincerely said to Wu Tong, "Thank you for treating Tianxin so lovingly."

Wu Tong felt a little embarrassed and mumbled, "Well... that's because Tianxin is so loveable in the first place."

Xie Xuning's phone suddenly rang while he and Wu Tong were still speaking.

He glanced at the incoming call notification on his phone and said, "I have something I need to attend to."

Wu Tong nodded and replied, "Then I'll be on my way as well."

Xie Xuning drove to the room. As he opened the door, he caught a whiff of a terrible smell.

After Xie Xingqing was injected with the medicine last time, he didn't pay any attention to Xie Xingqing since then.

"Chief."

Xie Ningxu glanced at the nurse who was attending to Xie Xingqing.

"What's the matter?"

The nurse whispered in a soft tone, "She wants to see you."

Xie Xingqing finally saw Xie Xuning's handsome face she used to think about all the time, the one that remained etched into her mind like a photo.