As soon as someone brought Cui Sihao up, the entire faction that supported Cui Yuandan turned silent. That mer—he could even kill someone when he lost his temper; if he found out that they silently watched Cui Yuandan put her house on the line, he would skin them alive and cook them in a pot of hot and bubbling oil.
The women and mers went—I look at you, you look at me—before one of them turned on her feet and said, "Ah! I forgot that I needed to go and change the diaper of my cat. She is having a bad stomach these days."
"My father-in-law had a baby; I need to go as well."
"I need to go as well."
"Why are you leaving?"
"Because the child of her daddy belongs to my mother!"