Fool's Errand
While Jingwei wanted to trust that his father was not capable of these sort of scummy actions, he found his faith in his own father wavering when Li Tai Xuan's words painted a convincing alternate picture.
"Sun Haowei knew the engagement was fake!" Xue Ning burst out. "That wasn't the issue at all! Why would he attack you guys when he needed me to make his son look like a respectable man?"
"Who knows?" Yue Niang turned to look at her daughter, shrugging her shoulders nonchalantly. "Even if he knew the engagement was fake, that's not a guarantee that he wouldn't strike. In fact, he might have just been pretending to agree at first, then do this behind your backs to make you willingly give up on this charade you started."
"That still doesn't make sense," Xue Ning said bullishly. "If you told me he hired the thugs after he recovered from the heart attack, I'd understand, since I was the one that caused the heart attack in the first place."