Chapter 47: Chapter 47 Let your ah
Without Xia Chuyi standing up for Mother Xia, she wiped her eyes, sat to the side, her face twisted in grief, silently shedding tears.
“Chuyi is right, the second son’s family is always wailing and sobbing. If outsiders hear it, they’ll think the Xia Family is treating you poorly?” Grandma Xia looked at Mother Xia with undisguised contempt.
Other mbers of the Xia Family present also showed their disdain, albeit not too obviously, out of consideration for Xia Chuyi.
Xia Chuyi pretended not to notice.
Mother Xia had chosen her own path, her own way of living, and she would not interfere in this lifeti anymore.
“Speak then, elder aunt, what were you discussing about ?” Xia Chuyi brought the conversation back on topic with a single sentence.
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The room fell silent for two seconds.
“Cough cough, it’s like this, you went to Provincial City this ti to discuss a marriage with He Qing, but it didn’t work out… didn’t you let it go? Your sister then…” Aunt Xia’s words were cut off by Xia Lan interrupting.
“What let it go? Brother Qing likes , that’s why he wrote to the family to change the marriage arrangent to include !” Xia Lan jumped in urgently, throwing herself in front of Xia Chuyi, “Chuyi, tell everyone clearly, is it because Brother Qing and I are mutually in love, that’s why he broke off the engagent with you and decided to engage with instead? Is that right?”
“Today I already went to the He Family, Uncle He and Aunt He have agreed, your engagent is officially over.”
Xia Lan stared at her fiercely, desperately signaling with her eyes.
This was to remind her of her promise—once the marriage was called off, no one would ntion what had happened between her and He Qing, and she would help her.
Xia Chuyi’s lips curled up slightly in irony.
Xia Lan really did care about her reputation.
Don’t worry, she absolutely wouldn’t act like Xia Lan, “accidentally” letting slip such matters or “unintentionally” ntioning them; she would make Xia Lan blur it out herself.
In her previous life, after returning to her hotown from Provincial City, it was Xia Lan’s “unintentional” reveal, during her “careless” monts, that led her chastity scandal to beco widely known—stormy and chaotic. And as the rumors got more distorted by outsiders, Xia Lan purposely asked everyone not to spread it but did not deny it.
As for helping Xia Lan, what she ant by help was rely to help conceal, nothing else.
Moreover, the help she offered was not necessarily what Xia Lan needed.
“Let go!” She shoved her away, pursing her lips, “Yes, you indeed caught He Qing’s eye more than I did, so I let the engagent go and passed it to you!”
“What did you say?” Xia Lan was stunned and stepped back.
Xia Chuyi raised an eyebrow.
How co? Didn’t she just say that she and He Qing were mutually in love?
She just ntioned their mutual admiration, what more did she need? To help persuade the whole family that the two were a perfect match made in heaven?
As for “letting” it, she indeed had “let” the engagent go!
“Chuyi, this engagent, it wasn’t you who let it go, it was Brother Qing who decided himself, right?” Xia Lan glared at her fiercely, enunciating every word.
Xia Chuyi acted as if she hadn’t understood the implication.
“He decided? How could such a decision be one-sided? True, after I went to Provincial City and t He Qing, we both felt it wasn’t suitable, so we planned to break off the engagent.”
Xia Chuyi tilted her head, looking innocently, “But then I thought, since the He and Xia families have such a good relationship, and all the previous rites were completed, calling off the engagent would be too troubleso. Coincidentally, wasn’t Xia Lan also going for a matchmaking? He Qing found her pleasant too, so he thought of switching to her.”
“I didn’t expect that by casually ntioning it, He Qing would actually agree!” She said with a beaming smile.
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