325 Troubles

Her return sparked more news and the fact that she had not been seen with him for about a week since she came back became more alarming;

The news got to his grandparents and they summoned him home, telling him to come back with her but he refused to go; he called to tell them that everything was alright and they shouldn't listen to the rumors although that wouldn't keep them out for long.

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Liling had been living a shadow of herself close to a month now. Her initial plan was that she would leave as they said and when she was sure that they had released her father, she would sneak back into the country; take him to a safe place and tell Liu Wei everything so he would go after them and lock them up for good, thus saving her father and saving her marriage; but things didn't turn out that way; contrary to her thoughts, they never planned to let her father go in the first place. The whole plan was to make her leave the country and use him as a control over her.