[ Jiang Cheng meets that look with a stern one of his own. ]

I would kneel with you again, yes. I committed the same crimes as you last night. We should both kneel.

[ It's not as if Jiang Cheng would ever really escape his mother's watching eye. She is too intense, too dangerous, and the idea of slipping under her radar is just impossible.

He frowns instead, shaking his head, letting his fingers slip away. ]

Mother will always know. There is no point trying to pretend, is there?