Although his tone was gentle, hearing it brought no sense of comfort; rather, it felt like an implicit threat.

"I hope you don't either."

An unexplainable chill ran down Daisy's spine, and she instinctively denied: "I... of course I don't."

"Good, then," he leaned down c

It couldn't possibly be a threat like *"You just wait and see,"* could it?

Daisy had a tiny figure beating a anxious drum inside her heart, but before the drum could even catch a rhythm, she felt someone walking down from behind.

Then, her arm and waist were em

*He might be even more scheming and calculating than the few old foxes present here today.*

Daisy didn't want to get mixed up in the Vance family's internal affairs, so after dinner, she went for a walk in the garden with her younger cousin. The cousin's name was Ti