Chapter 1337: Wife, Stay Away From Him
"Jingxian, let’s go."
After a greeting, Young Master Chu took his leave. Leng Jingxian hurriedly followed him, her heart brimming with joy because of the recent events.
Now that Brother Chu had acknowledged their relationship and implicitly agreed to marry her, could she remind him upon returning to the Chu Residence to seek a marriage proposal from the Prime Minister Residence sooner rather than later? Her two older sisters were already married off, and she remained the only unwed young lady in the Prime Minister Residence—Leng Jingxian longed to be married soon herself.
Leng Jingxian’s two sisters were not born of the same mother. While Jingxian was the legitimate daughter, her sisters were considered lesser due to their status as concubines’ children. Traditionally, Jingxian’s identity had always overshadowed her sisters, who behaved with utmost courtesy and respect in her presence.
However, since their father arranged commendable marriages for them, their statuses were elevated along with their husbands’. Now married, they no longer showed the same degree of deference to Jingxian. Accustomed to their former reverence, Jingxian could not accept this shift in dynamic. How could those concubines’ daughters surpass her in standing?
Even if they had married well, they were still concubines’ daughters in their familial home, deemed inferior. Now her father had arranged for her to marry Young Master Chu, a man of high status from Donglin as the Prince. If she were to marry into the Chu Residence, she would become the Prince’s Consort.
Neither of her sisters would be fit to even carry her shoes then. Think to overshadow her? Never! With a smug expression, Jingxian caught up to Young Master Chu.
Calling to Brother Chu in a tender voice would have melted any other man’s heart, but Young Master Chu, walking ahead of Jingxian, seemingly ignored her voice as if he hadn’t heard it at all and proceeded straight into a restaurant.