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Tiz had deliberately changed into formal attire today. It was his grandson’s official day. It was neither an engagement nor a wedding, but engagements and weddings were merely procedural steps taken after everything had already been arranged.
Today was the arrangement itself.
He tried to make himself appear as gentle as possible, and he genuinely made the effort. That was why he took the initiative to speak first, “Hello.”
As for Ms. Jenny immediately kneeling and returning the greeting in honorific form, that was her own choice, though it was not surprising.
In the room at present, the one seated, the one perched on a shoulder, and the one kneeling on the floor all felt that everything was entirely appropriate. That was because this study was not a circle of in-laws, nor a circle of old family friends. It was a church circle. And under the rules of that circle, those who sat were meant to sit, and those who knelt were meant to kneel.
Pu’er continued to examine the woman before her, separated from her by generation after generation after— Fine, let’s just say one generation less than my grand-niece.
The woman looked acceptable, but strictly speaking, she did not belong to the church circle, even though she clearly knew of its existence.
In order to project ancestral authority, Pu’er had even groomed her fur carefully in the washroom after Karon left to pick up the...
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