Chapter 911: Retaliation Against the Unknown Visitor (1)
Upon learning that the Cui family had not given up and would soon come to propose marriage formally, Mo Yan was not really worried. When that day came, she would just tell the Cui family the truth, that she was already engaged. The Cui family wouldn’t break up someone’s marriage, and even if they were willing to, they would have to see if she and Xiao Ruiyuan would agree.
She had not made it clear to the matchmaker earlier, thinking that a simple reason like mismatched social status would be enough to refuse the match; otherwise, she would have told the real situation earlier and wouldn’t have let the Cui family fixate on her.
It had to be said that the old and young women of the Zhao Family were extremely vicious. If she agreed to the Cui family’s marriage proposal, not only would she end up with a sickly husband, but she would also have to deal with a difficult great-grandmother-in-law and an in-law who despised concubine’s sons to the core. How could such a life be simply described as living in dire straits?
And that mother-in-law was no ordinary person, she was the Senior Princess of Great Chu, Emperor Huian’s youngest sister, Princess Fuyun. Although Mo Yan did not know how this Senior Princess had intervened in Old Master Cui San’s marriage, directly causing Lady Cui San to fall from her position as wife to that of a concubine and then dying from postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to the frail Young Master Cui Qi, just her identity alone was daunting.
Old Lady Cui, a formidable figure, had no choice but to send Young Master Cui Qi to the South for over a decade under the pretense of recuperating his health, which showed how troublesome Princess Fuyun truly was.
Even without Xiao Ruiyuan, just her frail body entering that household meant she would be faced with endless strife. Such a life was not something she, a pitiful fighter, could handle.
If she refused, she would surely anger the Cui family, potentially turning them into enemies. Who knew what might happen in the future? This was not what she wanted to see.
If those two women dared to scheme against her and she didn’t respond in kind, wouldn’t she be failing to appreciate their "kind intentions"?