That was a lot to take in. Adrian Hawthorne was a little stunned. He hadn't expected Phoenix Golding to have had such a scandalous past with the big and burly Felix Thorne. No wonder Phoebe Huxley and the Thorne brothers spoke so ill of her.
But Phoenix Golding clearly wasn't innocent herself. She had been carrying on with Felix Thorne, which was why he gave her meat.
"You're overthinking it," Adrian Hawthorne teased playfully. "If she had married your dad, his daughter would be Jacqueline Spann, and you wouldn't have been born."
Tang Xiaonan froze, staring blankly. 'That's true. Logically, that makes sense. Jacqueline Spann would have been her dad's daughter, and *she* would have been Felix Thorne's precious darling.'
An unpleasant feeling washed over her. Tang Xiaonan pouted and said unhappily, "I'm my dad's precious darling, not her."
