Xiao Yuan smiled and said, "Aunt, wouldn't it be great if you had another goddaughter?"
Cui sneered, "Good? Ever since I took her in as my goddaughter, has she ever come to see me even once? Has she ever shown me any respect?"
"Oh, look at you, have you forgotten what you said to her after the last family reunion ceremony?"
Cui was taken aback.
That day, she disregarded the Su family's reputation and said directly to Su Xuerong, "It was the Prince's will to recognize you as his goddaughter this time. You don't need to visit him often in the future, but you must remember not to embarrass the Prince's Mansion in public."
It seems that this was the sentence she said most often to Su Xuerong that day.
Cui's face flushed with anger as she glared at Xiao Yuan and said, "You still dare to talk? I did all this for you!"
It was only afterward that she came to her senses that Hangzhou's defenses were as solid as an iron barrel, and how could the Northern Di spies have so easily infiltrated Hushan Hall to carry out an assassination?
All of this was Xiao Yuan's ruse!
"I just don't understand, what is it about Su that you like besides her face?" Cui said irritably.
Xiao Yuan countered with a question: "Aunt, back then, you disregarded your maternal grandfather's and family's objections and insisted on marrying your uncle before the results of the imperial examination were even announced. What were you thinking?"
Cui was stunned.
She suddenly remembered that rainy day many years ago, when the handsome man in the patched robe handed her his only oil-paper umbrella and ran into the rain.
At that moment, she felt that her heart could no longer hold anyone else, which led to her determination to marry against her family's wishes.
Something seemed to be trembling in Cui's heart. She slowly raised her head to look at Xiao Yuan: "Do you really want to marry her?"
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