Inside, as soon as he sat down, Daniel put the gifts he was carrying on the coffee table and smiled at Maggie. "Bella and I bought them together, Mom," he said. "They're all health supplements I brought back for you."

Maggie immediately beamed, waved her hand and said, "Daniel, that's so sweet of you. I'm glad you came, and you even brought me a present..."

"No, it's what I should do."

Bella sat down silently, picked up an apple and began to eat. Anyway, she had already seen it through. As her own daughter of more than twenty years, she was not as good as a son-in-law who had just...