She gestured broadly at the estate around them, at the mansion and grounds, and everything visible. "This entire property, the house, the land, every garden and tree and stone, belonged to my mother. It was her family's estate, passed down through generations. My grandfather planted the original gardens here for her. My family built this house."
The servants exchanged uncertain glances, clearly uncomfortable with this claim that contradicted everything they'd been told and known for years.
"But Miss...."
They wanted to say the woman was dead and now the present madam was Madam Chen. It was her living in this said compound.
