Chapter 73 Not Good Enough of Me
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Two nights ago, Ye Ning, the director of the sugar factory, had just come out of the factory when he was forcibly taken home by his family.
His father called him over and said to her with a stern face: "You don't have to go to the factory tomorrow. Get ready to get married."
Ye Ning frowned and asked, "Who are you going to marry?"
Ye's father said seriously, "Your fiancé, you two have already been engaged. We have already set the wedding date today. You are not young anymore. It is important to get married and raise children as soon as possible. Don't mess around with that evil concubine and ruin your reputation."
Ye Ning wanted to laugh after hearing this: "You were the ones who broke off the engagement and let me enter the palace as a concubine. Now you want me to marry you? I won't marry you."
Before Ye Ning went to Lin Baige's school, she always thought that she should marry her fiancé when she reached marriageable age, have a few children of her own, and take care of the harem.
At the beginning, his parents asked him to go to school and strive to become an imperial concubine in the future. His parents thought that the emperor would agree to anything Lin Baige said, which showed that the emperor was lustful. Their daughter was also extremely beautiful. If she was sent to the palace, she might be able to charm the emperor. Then their entire family would be able to call the shots in Jin State with the help of Ye Ning.
Ye Ning refused to go to school, but they forced him to go there.
After going to school, Ye Ning secretly found Lin Baige and told her that she was engaged and asked if she could not enter the palace as a concubine.
Lin Baige said to her: "I called you here not to let you enter the palace to become the emperor's concubine, but to teach you knowledge, so that you can create value for the Jin State in the future and find your own value."
Ye Ning said, seemingly understanding, "My value lies in supporting my husband and raising my children."
Lin Baige asked her: "What kind of person is your fiancé?"
Ye Ning told him her fiancé's name. Lin Baige asked around and advised her, "Your fiancé can't even read. I talked to him for a few minutes, and he didn't seem to understand what people were saying. Although it's not nice to say this, I suspect he's slightly mentally retarded. If he wanted to study at our school, I wouldn't accept him. Is it worth dedicating your life to such an ordinary man?"
Lin Baige's words seemed to wake her up. Her parents forced her to go to school every day. She didn't understand at first, but after attending classes for a while and doing experiments with Lin Baige, she made white sugar. Lin Baige praised her as a genius.
Gradually, she discovered that Lin Baige wanted them to regard themselves as the main body, rather than as an appendage of men. Later, when a factory was opened, she led the team to run it and built a factory on a vacant land to produce the first batch of white sugar. The sense of accomplishment she felt was something that getting married and having children could never give her.
Lin Baige told her that it wasn't that she couldn't get married and have children, as long as it didn't hinder her growth, or as long as the two of them could complement each other: "Look at me, even the emperor isn't worth my lifelong sacrifice, is your fiancé worthy of you giving up everything?"
She gradually agreed with Lin Baige's words. She was not worthy of giving her life for any man. Moreover, the emperor always supported Lin Baige in everything he did. Even the emperor would not trap the person he loved in the palace and let him take care of the husband and children. Her fiancé could not do it, which meant that he did not love her.
Now her parents continue to ask her to marry her fiancé, and she feels speechless: "I don't want to marry him. He is too stupid and not worthy of me."
"What are you talking about? You'll be laughed at if you say it to others! How can you, a woman, despise men? You have to get married whether you want to or not!" Lin's father ordered someone to lock her in a room and wait for her to get married.
Ye Ning was powerless to resist her parents and thought her life was over. However, just one day later, her parents sent someone to beg her to go to the palace and ask Lin Baige to forgive their family.
After all, Ye Ning is Lin Baige's student. Seeing her begging for mercy, Lin Baige might be soft-hearted.
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