Cui Yun'er stared at Su Xuerong with her beautiful eyes: "Lady Su, are you out of your mind?"
Can't you see the dirty tricks Chen Siyi used on her?
Su Xuerong feigned ignorance and asked, "Hmm?"
Cui said, "I'm sleepy. Siyi, help your mother to rest for the afternoon."
Chen Siyi then released Su Xuerong's wrist and helped the old princess downstairs.
Everyone then left.
As Zeng Ling helped Madam Ge leave, she couldn't help but cast a sympathetic glance at Su Xuerong.
After everyone had disembarked, Cui Yun'er couldn't help but say, "Miss Su, didn't you realize that Chen Siyi was deliberately trying to embarrass you just now?"
Su Xuerong said softly, "Of course I know..."
"That……"
“Madam Cui, those people weren’t wrong. I’m just an ordinary woman, newly widowed, with a daughter who’s not even a year old. I’m really not good enough for Mr. Ling.”
Su Xuerong's expression remained completely calm.
She also understood that after Chen Siyi's "unintentional" publicity just now, she probably wouldn't be able to marry Ling Qingxue.
Ling's mother will come to Hangzhou sooner or later. Given her status, countless relatives of Hangzhou officials will naturally try to befriend her. If someone does this on purpose, what good reputation will she have left?
Not only could she not marry Ling Qingxue, but no respectable family in Hangzhou would marry her either.
Su Xuerong smiled: "It's nothing..."
Cui Yun'er, however, was still fuming: "Ming Shu is such a secretive guy. If I hadn't pressed him for details that day, I wouldn't have known you..."
Su Xuerong suddenly looked at her with surprise.
Akira?
Could it be that the Marquis of Wuwei who will one day travel between the North and South is Ming Shu?
Cui Yun'er herself was unaware of how intimate her tone was when she mentioned Ming Shu.
Su Xuerong suddenly smiled.
Fine, since she's already climbed all the high branches she could, so what if she can't marry Ling Qingxue?
She can still lead the Su family to glory through her own abilities.
Suddenly noticing the strange smile in her eyes, Cui Yun'er felt guilty and said, "I... I actually think it's better for you to marry my cousin than Mr. Ling..."
At least his cousin doesn't have a powerful mother behind him, and although his aunt is Xiao Yuan's maternal aunt, she can't object to who he marries.
Su Xuerong said irritably, "Does that mean I have to get married?"
"Huh?" Cui Yun'er looked completely bewildered.
“If Mr. Ling and I are not destined to be together, I will not force it, but I will not just marry any man…” Su Xuerong paused slightly here, “Your cousin is good, but if I were to enter the Prince’s mansion, I would only become a concubine, and I am unwilling to do so!”
Moreover, ever since she saw him at Jujing Garden that day, Su Xuerong had felt a sense of rejection towards him.
Add to that Fang Mingzhu and Chen Siyi, whom she had never met before, and the thought of it gave her a headache. How could she possibly jump into a fire pit on her own?
Just as Cui Yun'er was about to say something, she heard Su Xuerong say, "A woman's life doesn't necessarily have to end with marrying a man. Since I brought my whole family to Hangzhou, I've felt that as a woman, I can definitely create my own life and future."
Hearing the beautiful woman's soft words, Cui Yun'er was suddenly struck by a jolt: "Yes! Why should a woman have to depend on a man to live her whole life?"
She has been cheerful and carefree since childhood and dislikes being restrained by others.
Fortunately, her parents were quite open-minded and didn't restrict her from ever leaving the house like other families, allowing her to live freely and happily all these years.
But she also knew that such carefree days would not last long. She had been of marriageable age for almost two years, and her family was planning to find her a future husband. However, she overheard this and ran to Hangzhou to find her aunt that very night.
I was feeling a bit down before, but after meeting Lady Su today and hearing her words, it's like a new world has opened up before me.
Cui Yun'er's eyes lit up immediately: "That's right, who says a woman has to get married in her life?"
Su Xuerong suddenly felt something was wrong.
Could it be that her words just now were misunderstood? He hurriedly said, "Madam Cui, I was talking about myself..."
Cui Yun'er said with a serious expression, "I'm talking about myself too."
Su Xuerong became anxious.
If this young lady gets serious, what if she doesn't marry Ming Shu in the future? Where will she get the latest news from?
"What about Akira?"
Su Xuerong couldn't help but ask tentatively.
Cui Yun'er's face flushed slightly, but she stubbornly said, "He, he, he didn't say he wanted to marry me?"
Su Xuerong breathed a sigh of relief; it really was him.
The future Marquis of Wuwei.
"But the way the old lady mentioned you just now, was she trying to get you into the Prince's mansion?"
"I would never go into the Prince's mansion and be with that crazy woman. Now, with Chen Siyi and Liu Qiao'er joining the fray, they're probably going to turn the mansion upside down. Let whoever wants to come in, come in..."
Cui Yun'er said irritably.
Su Xuerong breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Such a lively and cheerful young lady, please don't let her be sent into a pit of fire.
“My aunt naturally likes to strengthen family ties, but I don’t think much of my cousin. He’s always been a lecturer to me since I was little, and it’s so annoying. So my aunt naturally won’t force me,” Cui Yun’er added.
Su Xuerong smiled, her eyes crinkling.
Xiao Yuan probably didn't expect that there would be quite a few people who disliked him.
Cui Yun'er took her wrist and said, "Right now, Chen Siyi will definitely be saying bad things about you to your aunt, but you don't care about Mr. Ling anymore, so let her be!"
Su Xuerong sighed softly, "It's not that I don't care, it's just that I feel powerless..."
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