Chapter 1067: Refuse (10,000 updates)_5
However, her kindness was unlike that of Yao Hanai and others; theirs was either to humiliate or to ingratiate themselves. But her intention was purely to be kind to her so that once married, they could live together without strained sister-in-law relations.
Yet such words she truly could not utter, knowing that if she did speak them aloud, it would certainly make Lin Yuan sad.
Seeing Tian Hui’s hesitance and struggle to find the right words, Lin Yuan felt a touch of amusement. This young girl, though not foolish, was indeed too honest, and a casual remark from her had flummoxed her.
"Alright, sister, don’t fret about it," Lin Yuan burst out laughing, wrapped her arm around hers and pulled her to a chair nearby, saying with a smile, "Sister, you will be my elder sister-in-law in the future, and if nothing unexpected happens, we will be family. You naturally should be kind to me, right?"
Tian Hui bit her lip and nodded vigorously: "Yes, we are family, and I should indeed be kind to you."
Looking into Lin Yuan’s genuinely smiling eyes, Tian Hui felt a profound fondness from the bottom of her heart.
However, there was something Lin Yuan wasn’t quite clear on, so she started discussing it with Tian Hui: "Isn’t tomorrow the fifteenth of the first month? I remember everyone gathers together on this day, so why has Miss Yao set the date for the sixteenth?"
While flipping through the fabric samples brought by the Embroiderer of Red Smoke Pavilion for Lin Yuan and her sisters to see, Tian Hui explained with a laugh, "Sister, as a newcomer to the Capital city, there’s something you don’t know. Our emperor hosts a palace banquet every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, and all the capital officials of rank will attend with their families. Not just Miss Yao, I, and even the princess and Xia Zheng, will have to go to the palace."
Xia Zheng also has to go to the palace?
Lin Yuan paused in her perusal of the fabric samples, suddenly feeling an unexpected jolt in her heart.