"I will no longer have a brother in the future."
The reason Qin Yitian said this was because she had completely lost hope in her brother Qin Feng.
She never expected that her brother would ultimately beco the type of person he used to hate the most.
He used to despise, because of their mother, those who prioritized benefits and forced relatives into arranged marriages, didn’t he?
Why has he beco such a person now?
Just at this mont, a woman in a yellow dress hurried over.
She was precisely Qin Yitian’s personal bodyguard, Huang Fei.
Ever since their ti in Southborne, she had been following her. After returning to the hidden Qin Clan, she still remained by her side.
Besides acting as Qin Yitian’s personal bodyguard, she also took care of her daily life.
Her own strength was also at a Grandmaster level.
After she ca to Huang Fei’s side, she quickly said, "Miss, the Patriarch over there asked you to go over. The Xiao Family... people from the Xiao family have arrived."
Her face didn’t look good either, feeling sorrow and sympathy for Miss’s fate.
Qin Yitian’s face was as pale as a sheet, she said, "Who from the Xiao family? What are they doing here?"
"It’s Xiao Huang. He brought people from the Xiao family over to deliver the betrothal gifts!" Huang Fei said with a sigh.
Qin Yitian’s face turned even uglier.
"Miss, let’s go. It was the Patriarch himself who asked you to go over. If you don’t go, the Patriarch might get angry. It’s terrifying when the Patriarch gets angry."
Qin Yitian sighed lightly; she knew this command ca from the highest level of the Qin family. She couldn’t resist, nor did she want to put Huang Fei in a difficult position.
Therefore, she slowly got up and followed in Huang Fei’s steps, heading towards the Qin family’s hall.
At this mont, every step she took felt as if she was treading on her heart, heavy and arduous.
They walked through the winding corridors and reached the Qin family’s hall, which was already bustling, yet undercurrents were surging.
Qin Yitian imdiately saw the Qin Family Patriarch sitting high above, as well as Xiao Huang, who was dressed in splendid attire with an imposing deanor.
Of course, there were also many elders from the Qin family whose faces were either filled with joy or worry, yet all showed the importance they placed on this matter.
Among these people, the figures of Qin Qiyu and Xiao Sisi, this mother and daughter duo, were particularly striking.
Qin Qiyu, Qin Yitian’s younger aunt; it was mainly her who made Qin Yitian’s life difficult within the family when she was a child.
Xiao Sisi, Qin Yitian’s cousin, and also Xiao Huang’s cousin. She had bullied Qin Yitian since childhood.
Whatever good thing Qin Yitian had, she would take away. Previously, she even tried to take away ’Dong Lin’.
Today, they seed to have co not just as re witnesses.
Their eyes t Qin Yitian’s the mont she stepped into the hall, their lips curled into a schadenfreude smile, as if foreseeing a good show was about to unfold.
Qin Yitian forced down the discomfort in her heart, first, with a complicated expression, she saluted the Qin Family Patriarch.
Then, holding onto her last shred of hope, she knelt down and earnestly pleaded to the Patriarch:
"Patriarch, Yitian already has a marriage agreent with Dong Lin, she cannot marry another. If forced, outsiders will also regard the Qin family as a joke."
"And the Xiao family will lose dignity too. Others will say, the Xiao family is marrying a second-hand woman."
Having been imrsed in the business world for years, Qin Yitian naturally knew how to speak. Standing on the other party’s interest made her more persuasive.
However, she clearly underestimated the determination of the Qin and Xiao families.
This marriage alliance was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
The marriage alliance was secondary, their most important thing was to use this matter to subdue Lin Dong. That was the key.
Faced with Qin Yitian’s plea, the Patriarch rely glanced at her indifferently, then said:
"Your fiancé, Dong Lin, is Master Lin! Since he has deceived you, deceived our Qin family, naturally, this marriage agreent should be annulled!"
"As for marrying you to Xiao Huang, even the Xiao Clan’s Patriarch has no objections, Xiao Huang certainly wouldn’t either. Right?"
With this, he turned to look at Xiao Huang.
Xiao Huang, dressed in a splendid outfit, smiled slightly and said gentlemanly, "Xiao Huang naturally doesn’t mind."
"Yitian is so outstanding. Xiao Huang had admired her greatly before. As for her previous marriage agreent with Master Lin, it was just an engagent, they were not truly married, it’s nothing."
He spoke with a smile on his face, but what he truly thought inside, no one knew.
The Qin Family Patriarch was very satisfied with his answer.
Then he once again said to Qin Yitian, "Did you hear that? The Xiao family doesn’t care, and our Qin family doesn’t care about this reputation."
"This matter, you need not ntion again. Accept the Xiao family’s betrothal gift with peace of mind and then marry Xiao Huang. In the future, be a good wife and mother."
Upon hearing these words, Qin Yitian was utterly despairing.
She knew, this matter simply could not be changed anymore.
"Alright, you young people, talk among yourselves." The Qin Family Patriarch didn’t stay much longer, but left space for the young people.
He left, taking the elders of the Qin family with him.
After the Patriarch and the elders left, the atmosphere in the hall subtly changed.
Qin Qiyu and Xiao Sisi exchanged a glance, their smile widened, they began to take turns to mock Qin Yitian.
"Sister Yitian, really congratulations are in order. About to marry into the Xiao family, becoming the Xiao family’s young mistress everyone admires. In the future, you’ll not only be my sister but also my sister-in-law. We’ll beco even closer." Xiao Sisi’s words carried a prick, yet deliberately maintained a semblance of familial closeness.
Qin Qiyu added with a face full of "concern", "Yes, Yitian, you must seize this opportunity, after all, not everyone has this honor."
After speaking, the mother and daughter exchanged a smile, a smile filled with misfortune and disaster.
Previously, Xiao Sisi tried to snatch ’Dong Lin’, but failed every ti. Back then she was unbearably jealous of Qin Yitian having a good fiancé like Dong Lin.
Who would have thought, things would develop like this now?
Dong Lin actually turned out to be Master Lin!
And the Qin family actually annulled this marriage.
Moreover, they had Qin Yitian betrothed to her cousin Xiao Huang instead.
After she entered their Xiao family’s door, she wondered how Xiao Sisi would tornt Qin Yitian.
"The man I couldn’t get, you surely can’t get either." Xiao Sisi said secretly.
Thinking about Dong Lin, she felt a burst of resentnt, a resentnt of not getting what she wanted to destroy.
Qin Yitian stood at the original location, letting those words pierce her heart like needles, her face pale, yet still maintaining proper etiquette and dignity, without a trace of losing composure.
In her heart, only one thought resounded repeatedly — the one she loved was Lin Dong, this marriage agreent, she would never accept.
If it ca to the final step, then she could only turn that wedding into her funeral.
However, before that, she still held a fantasy deep within her heart.
She couldn’t help but recall a ti when she jokingly asked Lin Dong a question.
She asked, "If one day, I am also forced by my family to marry another man I don’t like, just like my mother, will you co and get ?"
He replied, "You are my wife. If that day truly cos, through the ends of the world and the depths of hell, I will co to get you."
In the depths of her heart, she was still fantasizing, hoping he would co to take her away.
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