Chu Xinghe was utterly bewildered. This situation was nothing like the script he had imagined.

According to the usual trope, the Dark Rigid's Holy Mother, being a figure of great power, should have been sitting there with an inscrutable expression, waiting for him to speak first, right?

He would then cut to the chase and confront her directly.

The Holy Mother would point at him and angrily shout, "How dare you, little Chu Xinghe!"