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Seeing Mu Yalu in such a state also shook Li Jingtian, who quickly helped her up while holding Li Yuanjiao in one hand.
"Madam, you've misunderstood me!" she said.
After noticing Mu Yalu calming down slightly, Li Jingtian, quick-witted as she was, passed Li Yuanjiao back to her as a sign of goodwill and apologized, "I misspoke, leading to the misunderstanding. I've been tasked by our elders to compile the family history, hence I require a clear understanding of the lineage of all the descendants. Even if Jianixi really was a distant relative through the Mulu Family, it wouldn't be right to blame this on a child of the later generation."
Mu Yalu remained skeptical, her maternal instinct not allowing her to let this stigma fall upon Yuanjiao.
She insisted that Jianixi, being a slave, had no connection to the Mu Family. Li Jingtian, therefore, shifted the conversation to more general inquiries about whether...



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