"That's good, you scared me to death." Sun Jin was genuinely frightened; what could she do when her family was full of...

"It's not that I'm asking you to stand by and watch someone die, it's just a matter of seeing how things go." Mo Yan looked at Sun Jin's extremely frightened appearance with some helplessness.

"Grandson knows."

...

Early in the morning, just as dawn was breaking, Lin Xuan woke up and saw the girl beside him.

He was shocked, unable to recall anything from yesterday. It seemed they were having tea together, and then… they…

"Miss, I...I...I..." Lin Xuan quickly got up. This was the daughter of a high-ranking official; he dared not do it.

The girl woke up and looked at Lin Xuan shyly, "I have no way to repay your life-saving grace, except to offer myself to you. This is all of my own free will."

"Would you, sir, be willing to marry me?"

"Willing or not? Of course I'm willing, daughter of a high-ranking official. I'm willing, but I..." He looked around the room and the courtyard with difficulty.

"Young master, don't worry. I will go home and tell my father. He will surely tell you. Then you can come and propose marriage. From then on, you can come to the capital and stay with me forever, and we can pass the imperial examinations together."

This was exactly what he wanted. Lin Xuan's eyes lit up, and he was very happy.

"Okay, okay, okay." He said "okay" several times before taking her to the neighboring county.

On the way, the girl said that her name was Nan Ling, she was eighteen years old, and she had an older brother and a younger sister. Her father was a high-ranking official and very wealthy.

The implication is that once they get married, fame and fortune will be within their grasp.

Watching Nan Ling enter the county government office and seeing everyone's respectful demeanor, he felt confident that things were going well!

Who says you can't have a free lunch? It depends on who you are. Didn't he just have a marriage falling from the sky?

When he returned, he saw an incredibly excited Sun Yue.

"Young Master Lin..." The word "Young Master Lin" was uttered with a thousand turns of emotion, expressing her endless longing.

"You...how did you get out?"

Lin Xuan didn't react for a moment. Didn't Cai Lian say that she was locked up?

"Young Master Lin, I have already left. From now on, I can be with you."

Sun Yue was about to say that she had severed ties with her family, but for some reason, she didn't say it...

"What?" Lin Xuan was somewhat surprised, and not quite... After all, he was about to marry Miss Nan Ling.

One could pave the way to his meteoric rise, the other only had a few taels of silver; either way, he could choose, right? But then he thought about his fiancée's demands...

Seeing that Lin Xuan remained silent, Sun Yue became somewhat frightened and flustered, and cautiously asked the question.

"Is Young Master Lin unhappy?"

Lin Xuan then realized what was happening. "No, I was so happy I was incoherent. I heard from Cai Lian that your family wouldn't let you go out, and I... I thought we wouldn't be able to see each other again."

Miss Sun, I love you, but I do have a fiancée.

Before I was even born, I was betrothed at birth... Even though I was extremely unwilling, there was nothing I could do. Now... that girl is demanding money as compensation..."

Upon hearing this, Sun Yue took out one hundred taels without hesitation, not caring about the loose silver in her purse.

“I have it, I have silver, it was given to me by my grandmother.”

"She made me choose between you and Yonghua Fugui, Young Master Lin..." Sun Yue looked at Lin Xuan shyly, incredibly nervous, and finally said, "I chose you."

Lin Xuan: "???" What does that mean?

"What?" Lin looked at Sun Yue in shock. "You..." Realizing what Sun Yue meant, Lin Xuan could only say, "I'm just worried about you..."

Sun Yue shook her head, her gaze gentle, her heart now filled with longing for the future.

“Grandmother doesn’t understand me. She thinks you won’t give me a proper status, which is why she kicked me out of the house. I believe that once we get married, Grandmother will understand. Young Master Lin… I have nowhere else to go…”

Lin Xuan looked at her tenderly. "Of course, I'll take you home with me."

Hearing this, Sun Yue seemed to see happiness.

Meanwhile, the Sun family hired several doctors.

Doctors shake their heads when they go out.

I heard that Miss Sun is seriously ill and cannot die. I'm afraid she's destined to die young.

Sun Yue followed Lin Xuan home. The old lady glanced at him and then looked at her son.

"Mother, this is Sun Yue, your future daughter-in-law."

Sun Yue was extremely shy and embarrassed, and could only lower her head and look nervously at the ground...

Upon hearing this, the old lady realized that this was the one who liked her son to give her money.

"Well, in that case, come in with me. I have something to tell you..."

Sun Yue was a little flustered, and she turned around to look nervously at Lin Xuan.

"Go on, Mother just wants to tell you what you should do in the future."

Sun Yue then went inside feeling uneasy.

"Regarding you becoming my daughter-in-law, I want to see if you have the ability. My son is very outstanding, and as his future wife, you must also be outstanding, don't you think?"

Hearing this, Sun Yue became very confident. She was proficient in all the arts, including music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and she and Young Master Lin were a match made in heaven.

"Auntie, although I am not very talented, I have studied music, chess, calligraphy and painting."

The old lady was unhappy. It was one thing for her mother-in-law to interrupt, but she even said that she was very outstanding.

“We are just an ordinary family living an ordinary life. Why do we need so-called relatives to talk to us? What you need to learn is how to take care of your husband and mother-in-law. As the saying goes, a good wife should be able to grace the hall and manage the kitchen.”

Can you cook? Can you do housework?

When guests come, can you cook a delicious meal?

Sun Yue was a little confused. Why did they have to do all this? "Auntie, why don't we just buy a girl?"

Sun Yue spoke as if it were the most reasonable thing in the world, which made the old lady furious. "What nonsense are you talking about? Our whole family lives in the village. Go out and see which family would buy a girl?"

"What my family wants is a daughter-in-law, not a rich heiress. How can we waste money on that? I won't accept a rich heiress like you with my son."

Sun Yue's eyes widened, and her eyes instantly reddened. Was she being rejected?

She thought that once she got out and found Young Master Lin, they could live happily ever after, but she never expected...

"Auntie, how can I be with Young Master Lin?"

She wanted to marry Young Master Lin, to live with him, and to take care of him.

“It’s not that I don’t want you two to be together. How about this, I’ll give you some time to learn how to do housework and cook. If you can take good care of my son, maybe I can let you two be together.”

A maidservant offered up for free—why not take her?

Her son is so charming; he brought one home yesterday and another today. It's really wonderful.

“Okay.” Sun Yue agreed without hesitation. She was willing to do anything as long as she could be with Young Master Lin.