Jiang Yao was deeply moved. She had initially thought that Pei Lingyu had acted impulsively and disregarded etiquette.
Now that I've heard him finish speaking, I realize he had thought it through carefully.
For her sake, he disregarded even the rules of propriety and the opinions of the world.
What else could this be but true love?!
Jiang Yao was moved to tears. She recalled that in her previous life, Pei Lingyu had never touched Jiang Shuwan, leaving Jiang Shuwan to live a life of widowhood. Her love for Pei Lingyu burned as brightly as a fire in winter.
She had always liked Pei Lingyu, and she married into the Marquis's family because she was ridiculed.
In order to save face, they sought out the crown prince, who was of even higher status.
In fact, she didn't like Pei Yanzhi at all. Pei Yanzhi was taciturn and cold and boring, like a piece of wood.
Pei Lingyu is sensible and knows how to please girls.
Two people, one under the sky, one on the ground.
Pei Lingyu is the sky, Pei Yanzhi is the earth.
In addition, the Lady Hou was vicious, while the Lady Bo was kind.
She must have been blinded by greed in her past life to abandon such a good husband's family and choose the Marquis's mansion with the man who loved her so much.
Jiang Yao was reborn with the intention of rekindling her romance with Pei Lingyu and changing the tragic ending of her previous life.
Now, after listening to Pei Lingyu's explanation and comparing the two in-laws and the two men, she became even more determined in her decision.
Without hesitation, Jiang Yao knelt down as well.
"Father, please agree to my marriage with Yulang. I truly love him and want to be with him for the rest of my life, a lifelong commitment, never to be separated again..."
Pei Lingyu pleaded desperately, "Please, father-in-law, agree to my marriage with Yao Yao..."
The two knelt down and begged, like the legendary lovers Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, which made Jiang's father so angry that his blood vessels almost exploded.
Jiang Shuwan's courtyard.
While pouring tea for Jiang Shuwan, Qingxing asked mysteriously, "Miss, guess whether Master has agreed?"
"Of course I agree." Jiang Shuwan put down the dowry list, picked up her teacup, and took a sip.
"Miss, how did you know?" Qingxing was taken aback.
Jiang Shuwan smiled but remained silent.
Jiang's father valued his official reputation above all else, and if there were any other way, he would never allow Jiang Yao to marry Pei Lingyu.
But the rumors about Jiang Yao and Pei Lingyu had already spread like wildfire, with all sorts of details.
With the commotion at the mansion gate today, it seems Jiang Yao will have a hard time getting married.
Moreover, Jiang Yao and Pei Lingyu were deeply in love, and she would rather die than marry someone else.
Thus, Father Jiang had no choice but to comply.
Otherwise, could they really force Jiang Yao to her death over a marriage? Or make her cut her hair and become a nun?
After all, she is his own biological daughter; Mr. Jiang wouldn't be so heartless.
"Have you gotten engaged?"
"I've booked it, for the same day as you."
This is different from my previous life.
In her previous life, after being driven away by Jiang Yao, Pei Lingyu became despondent and drowned her sorrows in alcohol.
He was extremely depressed, drinking himself into a stupor every day. He lived like this for several months, neither human nor ghost. Lady Bo couldn't bear to see him continue to suffer from heartbreak, so she asked to marry Jiang Shuwan into the Bo family.
In her previous life, she married Pei Lingyu a few months late.
In this life, they were married on the same day.
This is probably what they call the "butterfly effect".
Jiang Shuwan thought silently.
Qingxing frowned, puzzled, and said, "I really don't know what Master is thinking. This marriage arranged for the Second Miss has made the Jiang family lose all face."
"He couldn't persuade the second young lady, so let them get married. Just find a day to secretly arrange their wedding. What's the point of setting it on the same day as yours? Aren't you afraid the guests will laugh at you?"
"Silly girl, that's my father's cleverness." Jiang Shuwan chuckled, picked up the pen on the table, and slowly wrote two "happiness" characters stroke by stroke.
"Jiang Yao's marriage is indeed shameful, but it is quite beneficial. The young master will inherit the title in the future, and Jiang Yao will be his second wife and also his wife."
"My eldest daughter married into a marquis's family, and my second daughter married into an earl's family. Tell me, isn't my father very prestigious?"
"Since both daughters are getting married anyway, why not set the same day? Now everyone knows about the Marquis's wedding. It will be a double celebration. The Marquis's wedding will be a grand affair, while the Earl's wedding will be a simple affair. People will only know about the Marquis's wedding, not the Earl's."
"Once the marriage hurdle is overcome, as time goes by and other new things happen, people will gradually forget about the troubles Jiang Yao and the young master had..."
This is called internet memory.
Of course, there's no internet now, but the meaning is similar.
"So that's how it is. I didn't expect there to be so many intricacies involved." Qingxing shook her head and sighed, feeling that the master was truly shrewd and calculating.
Then, he turned his gaze to Jiang Shuwan.
The master is indeed formidable, but the young lady is truly unparalleled in wisdom and resourcefulness. With just a few words of information she gathered, she clearly understood the master's thoughts.
By that logic, the young lady is even more powerful than the master.
whee.
Happy.
Qingxing felt she had discovered the truth, and she served Jiang Shuwan even more attentively and diligently.
In the past, when Jiang Shuwan slept until late morning, she would mutter a few words like, "Miss is too lazy. Her mother-in-law may not like her when she gets married."
He didn't say a word, only looked at Jiang Shuwan with starry eyes full of admiration.
"Little brat, she has two faces."
Jiang Shuwan was both amused and exasperated.
The master and servant lived a leisurely life, waiting only for the wedding day, when a small incident occurred.
Jiang Yao and Song Shi began to covet Jiang Shuwan's dowry.
Previously, the manor had prepared a dowry for Jiang Shuwan. Jiang's father said that she would bring honor to her ancestors by marrying into a noble family and that she should have a grand and glorious wedding.
So they emptied most of the family's savings to prepare forty dowry items for her.
Now, Jiang Yao is getting married on the same day, just like Jiang Shuwan in her previous life, and the mansion is out of money.
They scraped together only twenty dowry items for Jiang Yao, most of which were worthless.
Song Shi couldn't bear to wrong Jiang Yao, and Jiang Yao didn't want the money in the manor to benefit Jiang Shuwan.
The mother and daughter then whispered in Jiang's father's ear, saying that the Marquis's dowry was untouchable and that Jiang Shuwan's original forty taels of dowry could be divided into ten or eight taels.
Then he was given a good scolding by Jiang's father.
Father Jiang set the wedding dates for the two daughters on the same day, intending to have a grand ceremony and a small one to cover up the matter of Jiang Yao and Pei Lingyu.
This mother and daughter are something else. They want to take a share of Jiang Shuwan's dowry and they want to have a big celebration. Aren't they just asking for trouble?
As a result, the two of them were scolded.
Originally, Jiang's father felt sorry for Jiang Yao and had prepared two pairs of one hundred taels of silver ingots as a dowry for her, but he didn't give them to her. Instead, he had the servants deliver them to Jiang Shuwan's courtyard.
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