Chapter 480 - 490 Shattered Dream
"Who is it?" Lin Qianqing looked at Jin Wei, suddenly feeling a strange sensation, so her tone was unpleasant.
She felt that today’s cousin didn’t seem as dashing and compelling as usual, which always made her heart flutter like a little deer.
In his eyes, she saw something disdainful.
Although Lin Qianqing’s mother was the legitimate daughter of the Jin Family, a proper lady of high society, her father came from a grassroots background, and so did her grandmother. Influenced by them, she also felt a sense of being of grassroots origin.
She couldn’t stand those who looked down on ordinary people and seemed to think they were above everyone else. Before today, she had thought her cousin shared her sentiments.
Xiao Jinyan watched Lin Qianqing, silently giving a sneer and then went back to drinking tea by the window.
From this angle, looking out the window, one could see a vast beautiful vista of Beijing.
Jin Wei seemed not to have noticed Lin Qianqing’s odd behavior and continued, "The same one we were talking about earlier, the daughter of the sister my uncle left in the village, the peasant girl."
Seeing the look in Jin Wei’s eyes, Lin Qianqing felt even more uneasy. She blinked, then slightly lowered her eyes and said, "Of course, it’s her. My father has only one sister, my aunt has only one daughter, so naturally, I only have that one cousin."
Jin Wei found it strange and pressed on, "But I heard that your aunt married a rural man. How did her daughter become the Princely Heir’s senior sister?"
"How would I know that?" Lin Qianqing’s response was genuine. She paused, then added, "However, I’ve heard that last year, His Majesty bestowed a plaque of ’Divine Doctor’ and had it delivered to Lingnan to commend the doctor who cured the epidemic at the Lingnan Barracks. The recipient of that plaque is indeed my cousin."