Is it because I'm not charming enough?!

Chuanwen, who had never doubted himself, was now feeling a little awkward.

Xu Yan: ......

"Daughter, I think it's because Er Gou has such good self-control."

Xu Yan looked at her daughter's dejected appearance and tried to comfort her, but it didn't work. Chuanwen became even more dejected after hearing this.

"Isn't my good self-control just because I'm not charming enough? There's a saying that goes, 'If a dog won't eat a meat bun, it just means that the meat bun isn't fragrant enough!'"

Chuanwen was teary-eyed, somewhat unable to accept the outcome.

Xu Yan: "You can't say it like that..."

But, alas, how can I comfort her?

Suddenly, Chuanwen slammed his hand on the table and stood up, his expression resolute. "Mother! I refuse to believe it's my fault!"

"What...what do you want?"

Xu Yan had a bad feeling.

Chuanwen chuckled and said, "Why don't we find someone to try and see?"

Xu Yan was a little confused, "Try...try what?"

"Girl, you can't do anything reckless! You're engaged!"

Realizing what her daughter was about to do, Xu Yan quickly stopped her, knowing that if they were discovered, she would be drowned in a pig cage.

Chuan Wen sneered, "A marriage contract? Then let's annul it!"

What's the point of having someone who doesn't appreciate my beauty? Just to put me there as a decorative vase!

Chuanwen just wants to kick Er Gou right now.

Xu Yan's sunflower seeds no longer tasted good. Could her daughter really be testing her own charm by kissing and hugging someone?

No! We have to persuade them!

Seeing her daughter's resolute expression, Xu Yan was so startled that she dropped the sunflower seeds from her hand. "Daughter, we're from a respectable family. We can't just act intimately with people like that. Besides, it's not like Er Gou isn't charming enough..."

"I've heard that the eldest grandson of Minister Chen of the Ministry of Works is quite handsome, fair-skinned and clean-cut..."

Chuanwen looked longingly at her, while Xu Yan, sweating, continued to persuade him: "You and Ergou are childhood sweethearts, how can you just break off the engagement like that? Ergou is a kid your father and I watched grow up, he's a very reliable person, you definitely won't regret marrying him..."

"Zhang Guanjing may be a bit simple-minded, but he is indeed quite good-looking..."

Chuanwen rested his chin on his hands, while Xu Yan, drenched in sweat, said, "My dear girl, you must think carefully before you act. You'll have to take responsibility after you flirt with him, especially since Zhang Guanjing is already engaged. We can't do something so immoral..."

"Engaged? Then forget it. How about the youngest son of the Imperial Workers' Office? He's handsome with fair skin and red lips."

Chuanwen thought it over carefully, while Xu Yan's mind raced. Since persuasion didn't work, she decided to take a different approach: "The youngest son of the Director of Works often frequents brothels. I wonder if he has any diseases!"

“Oh, no, no,” Chuanwen said with a disdainful “oh,” quickly rejecting that option. “How about Li Feng’s third son? His daughter was chosen to enter the palace, so his son must be good-looking too.”

"No, no, think about the Sixth Prince, he's so... cough..." Xu Yan, who was about to say that the Sixth Prince was stupid, quickly stopped herself when she thought of the Emperor's secret guards around. She couldn't criticize the royal family. However, before she could finish speaking, Rumor had already understood.

"Yeah, the Sixth Prince is so dim-witted, and the Emperor is a shrewd man. So his dim-wittedness must have come from Consort Li. This means that Consort Li's family genes are not good. What if her younger brother is also dim-witted!"

Another letter was rejected. Xu Yan swallowed hard. This could be considered a tacit praise of the emperor, right? The emperor shouldn't be angry if he heard it.

When the guards recounted these words to the emperor, he wasn't angry at all; instead, the corners of his lips curled up slightly. A shrewd person? Oh well, let's just take it as Wen Yatou praising him.

However, after the emperor smiled, he frowned and began to think. He had been wondering how someone as wise and intelligent as himself could have given birth to such a brainless sixth son. Now he suddenly understood; the problem wasn't with him at all.

Back in the present, Chuanwen thought of someone else, "I've heard that Cheng Wanrong's second brother is quite handsome, and many women secretly admire him..."

"he......"

Xu Yan wanted to speak ill of others, but she was speechless when she got to the point. The second son of the Cheng family really didn't seem to have any problems. He was good-looking and talented.

Chuanwen looked at his mother and smiled, "See? This one is perfect, he's the one!"

But Wen Xue immediately spoke up, "He has bad breath!"

Xu Yan gave Wen Xue a grateful look, and Wen Xue smiled and said, "It's nothing!"

"Bad breath?"

This is indeed a bit hard to accept. Chuanwen looked at Wenxue and asked, "How did you know?"

Wenxue smiled and said, "My aunt told me."

The last time she was invited to her aunt's house for dinner, her aunt talked to her a lot. It was obvious that her aunt was very bored. She talked about things like the second son of the Cheng family having bad breath and the Minister of Works hitting his son-in-law with the sole of his shoe. She had more gossip than she had at Chuanwen's place.

“I heard from my aunt that she originally wanted to marry her niece to the second young master of the Cheng family, but she found out that his bad breath was so bad that his colleagues dared not get close to him, so she gave up the idea.”

Wenxue said this, and Chuanwen listened with great interest. He grabbed some melon seeds from Xu Yan's hand, and the sound of cracking melon seeds filled the room.

[It seems that's true; this guy has terrible bad breath! Not only do his colleagues avoid him, but his horse even neighs loudly every time he rides in a carriage!]

Chuanwen was cracking the melon seeds in his hand with great relish, transforming himself into a badger in the melon field.

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