After Ye Ling returned to the compound, her life was very calm. Every day, except for reading books in her room, the only times she came out were to eat and use the bathroom; she hadn't even stepped out of the house. As for her mother and Ye Qian, who lived under the same roof, they were always out early and back late, until one day they came back before noon with two people and called Ye Ling out of the East Room.
The middle-aged man, although younger in age than her father, looked even older. He was precisely her mother's only brother, Bai Guoping. He was very thin, with an air of shrewdness on his face that made people dislike him, with the kind of weasel-faced and monkey-cheeked appearance.
