"Mr. Hawthorne, isn't Aunt Green incredible?" Tang Xiaonan whispered.
Adrian Hawthorne playfully tugged one of her pigtails and said to Jim Thorne, "Take Tang Xiaonan to bed. If she doesn't sleep soon, she won't grow any taller."
Jim Thorne picked up Tang Xiaonan and asked with concern, "Are you still going to Capria tomorrow?"
"Yes. The plan is still on."
Adrian Hawthorne replied cheerfully. With his mother's recent progress, he felt even more motivated to make some big moves. Before he was formally acknowledged by his father, he was determined to build up substantial assets. That was the only way he and his mother would have the confidence and standing they needed.
'As for that woman's status, I'm not particularly bothered,' Adrian Hawthorne thought. 'She's just someone who can't be presented in polite society. I can do without the Hawthorne family's businesses, but I'll be damned if I let that woman get her hands on them.'
