Ye Lanyin blushed slightly and nervously clenched her fingers.

"Father, I only agreed because I felt sorry for him."

Ye Wennan saw through it but didn't say anything, and continued Ye Lanyin's words.

“Sister, if that’s the case, your second brother thinks you don’t need to agree to marry him. I heard that the Regent has a cousin who has been in love with him for a long time, and she will soon return to the palace with the Empress Dowager.”

"If you feel sorry for him, why don't you let him marry his cousin? Anyway, the Regent isn't much better."

Ye Lanyin's eyes narrowed slightly, and she asked urgently, "How...how did you know?"

"These are all unspoken secrets. Only you, having stayed away from the Marquis's residence for so many years, would not know," Ye Wennan teased with a smile. "Sister, since you don't like him, why not just let it go?"

"Actually, you yourself..."

"Who said that?" Ye Lanyin hurriedly interrupted, only then realizing that she had been too impulsive.

Ye Wennan: "?"

"Second brother, that's not what I meant. What I meant was, it's not that I don't like him."

“These days, he has been sincere to me, and I can feel it.”

"I...I also wanted to marry him..." After saying this, Ye Lanyin's face turned as red as an apple.

Upon hearing this, Mo Feng, who was hiding in the shadows, chuckled slyly and immediately vanished.

He's trying to take credit!

Meanwhile, chaos was raging in the Ye family's kitchen.

Black smoke billowed from the kitchen and billowed out of the doorway. Lin Wanwan was held in Xie Shuning's arms, her face covered in soot that kept rubbing against Xie Shuning's face.

"Waaaaah, it's burning... how did it start burning?" Lin Wanwan poked her little head out with tears in her eyes, her round eyes looking towards the kitchen doorway.

Maids and servants carried basin after basin of water, going in and out.

"I didn't do anything just now."

After hearing Lin Wanwan's words, Xie Shuning stretched out a hand and patted his chest.

"Don't get excited, don't get excited..."

Li Xinghe poured the last basin of water into the kitchen, finally extinguishing the last bit of fire.

She awkwardly dropped the bucket and plopped down on the ground.

"Seriously, this is exhausting!!"