Lu Tianming did not answer her, instead fixing his gaze upon the financial news report playing on the television.
Watching Lu Tianming, Xu Qian, his wife of many decades, knew all too well just how stubborn her husband could be. She pursed her lips and sighed silently once more. Ever since that incident, Jingchen and her husband, despite being father and son, behaved as if they were nemeses, taking issue with each other at every turn. Whenever they met, it only took an inadvertent comment to spark an argument.
As a mediator, Xu Qian felt she was in a no-win situation, siding neither with her son nor her husband after all, one was her child, and the other her spouse.
Often, she preferred to turn a blind eye, letting them quarrel among themselves.
It wasn't that she didn't want to intervene, but she knew all too well the temperaments of both her husband and son – reasoning with them was futile.
