Seeing that she truly didn't want it, Raina passed the egg to Jim Thorne. Jim was about to accept—he wouldn't have minded ten of them—but when he caught Tang Xiaonan's dark, unnerving stare, he shuddered and pulled his bowl away.
He even split half of it and gave it to Goldie Thorne beside him. "I don't like eggs either. Uncle, you eat it."
Jim was trembling, his heart aching. 'How could I possibly not like them? But Xiaonan's stare is just too creepy. I'm scared.'
Byron Thorne smiled in satisfaction. His grandchildren had become much more sensible lately. A new year, a new beginning. Especially his little granddaughter; she was pretty, well-behaved, and smart. She even knew how to say, "filial piety is the foremost of all virtues." His sixth brother had mentioned it to him yesterday, full of nothing but praise!
Shane Thorne had come to play chess with Byron Thorne yesterday and had brought up what happened three days ago, heaping praise on Tang Xiaonan.
