Chapter 648: His Indescribable Protective Affection (1)_1
Cousins who supported each other for so many years, Chu Heng knew exactly what kind of person his cousin was. Put nicely, he was dignified and composed; put bluntly, he was cold-hearted and emotionless, fated to a solitary life. When had he ever seen him with such a look of embarrassment and annoyance?
In Jing City, which young master from a prominent family wasn’t surrounded by wives and concubines, children running all over the place by the age of twenty-three? Yet his cousin didn’t even have a woman to attend to him in his chambers, let alone children. At one point, he had suspected his cousin of having some hidden ailment; otherwise, how could he have endured these years with only stiff male attendants by his side?
Miss Mo had not yet married into the family when his cousin began to defend her, obviously having formed a deep attachment. Given his stubborn nature, once set on something, not even ten horses could drag him back, it was unlikely he would transfer his affections elsewhere, nor could anyone force him to accept another woman.
With a silent sigh, Chu Heng thought to himself, "It’s really ’hard to keep a good man down’!"
Although Miss Mo was of low birth, so low that she wouldn’t even qualify to be his cousin’s concubine, she had, after all, saved his own life. Even if he was unsatisfied, he couldn’t bring himself to break them apart.
Moreover, she had saved his cousin’s life as well and was clearly a kindhearted and virtuous young lady, not without her merits. And since his cousin didn’t care about the social status of his future wife, who was he, as an older cousin, to say anything?