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 members 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 lifetime anymore.
“Speak then, elder aunt, what were you discussing about me?” Xia Chuyi brought the conversation back on topic with a single sentence.
The room fell silent for two seconds.
“Cough cough, it’s , you went to Provincial City this time 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 me, that’s why he wrote to the family to change the marriage arrangement to include me!” 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 engagement with you and decided to engage with me instead? Is that right?”
“Today I already went to the He Family, Uncle He and Aunt He have agreed, your engagement 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 mention 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” mentioning them; she would make Xia Lan blur it out herself.
In her previous life, after returning to her hometown from Provincial City, it was Xia Lan’s “unintentional” reveal, during her “careless” moments, that led her chastity scandal to become 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 meant by help was merely 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 engagement go and passed it to you!”
“What did you say?” Xia Lan was stunned and stepped back.
Xia Chuyi raised an eyebrow.
How come? Didn’t she just say that she and He Qing were mutually in love?
She just mentioned 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 engagement go!
“Chuyi, this engagement, 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 met He Qing, we both felt it wasn’t suitable, so we planned to break off the engagement.”
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 engagement would be too troublesome. 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 mentioning it, He Qing would actually agree!” She said with a beaming smile.