At the dining table.
Jayden pushed the dishes towards Mia and said, "Aunt Mia, Auntie Cherry had specially made some local delicacies for you. You should try them out."
Mia did not look at Jayden, nor did she look at the dishes on the table. Her eyes were fixed on Silvia, who had pissed her off...
Silvia was extremely bothered by Mia's intense staring, so she really wanted to ask Mia to stop staring at her. However, she knew if she was to sound Mia out, Mia would definitely deny that she was staring at her.
Therefore, Silvia had decided to fight fire with fire and stared right back at Mia. Both of them stared into each other's eyes, and neither of them were willing to give in.
"Young lady, why are you looking at me like this?" The two of them were staring at each other for so long that their eyes were going to pop out, so Mia took the first move to question Silvia.
"Because you were looking at me first, so I decided to look at you."
"Since when was I looking at you?"
"If you didn't look at me, how would you know that I was looking at you?"
"Listen here young lady, I..." At that very moment, Mia really could not think of a way to deal with this young lady who had the gift of the gab.
"You what?"
"Believe it or not, I'll beat you up."
"You're an elder, how could you say such a thing to someone junior to you?"
"So you know that I'm your elder, huh? So why are you disrespecting me like this?"
"I've always respected my elders, but just look at you. Do you think that you're behaving like an elder?"
"I'm not behaving like an elder?" Mia shifted her gaze and looked at Jayden. "Jayden, your wife said that I'm not acting like an elder. Don't you think that you should say something about it?"
"But Aunt Mia, you really don't act like one." This was what everyone at the dining table was thinking. However, all of them knew that they could not say it out loud. If they did, none of them would not be able to get any sleep that night.
Jayden was already stressed out having to deal with Silvia alone. Now that Mia, the troublemaker, was here, he really wanted to kick either one of them out of the house. However, one was his aunt and the other was his wife. He could kick neither of them out.
Since he couldn't do anything to them, he could only play the good guy and speak nicely, "Aunt Mia, Silvia is still young, so she's not very good with words. I hope you won't take it to heart."
Upon hearing Jayden's words, Silvia was displeased. "Jayden, she came to the university to look for me today and even said some strange things to me. Not only that, I greeted her when I got home just now, but she ignored me. She was the one behaving like a child, how could you say that I'm the one bad with words?"
Jayden could not refute.
Mia said, "Just eat your dinner and don't bother us. We'll deal with our own matters ourselves."
It was Mia who had turned to Jayden for help, but she was also the one who told him to stay out of it now. In fact, Mia had noticed that Silvia had started to raise her voice at Jayden. She was worried that it would affect their relationship, so she thought it would be better if Jayden were to stay out of it.
Mia wanted Jayden to let them alone but he couldn't actually do that, could he? Jayden looked at Silvia and said, "Silvia, Auntie Cherry had prepared your favorite roasted chicken drumstick for you. You should have some."
"I'm not hungry." Her favorite chicken drumstick was right in front of her, and yet Silvia said that she was not hungry. At that point in time, Jayden knew that Silvia was determined to go against Mia.
Neither of them was willing to give in, so Jayden had to think of another way to resolve the deadlock between these women.
To tell the truth, Jayden's greatest strength was to close business deals and not attend to family affairs. Hence, he was absolutely clueless when it came to handling the drama between the women in the family.
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