Chapter 443 - 287: Discussing Marriage
Ran Yan was momentarily taken aback and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"There are some things that I can’t control," Xiao Song said slowly.
Xiao Song was very clear in his heart that he felt guilty because he had made her witness such helplessness, letting her understand that even someone as revered as the Emperor was not free from constraints. In life, few people were lucky enough to remain untainted.
With Xiao Song’s capabilities, he could have kept his woman in a pure space, free from any filth, but he feared that doing so would only push Ran Yan further away from him. Eventually, she might come to see him as hypocritical and deceitful. Besides, Ran Yan was not the kind of delicate flower that needed protection.
After escorting Ran Yan back to her estate, Xiao Song took a horse from the Ran estate and returned.
This winter seemed to have an especially abundant snowfall. At night, heavy snow began to fall again, seemingly trying its hardest to bury all filth and dirt. By morning, a thick layer had accumulated.
After breakfast.
It was only after Ran Yan sat down in her small study that she heard the urgent footsteps and the startled yet joyful voice of Wan Lu, exclaiming, "Wife! Wife!"
"Come in," Ran Yan said, already accustomed to her usual bluster.
Wan Lu pushed open the door, her face bursting with excitement, "Wife, the Xiao Family’s old Lady has sent a matchmaker over to ask for Doctor Liu’s marriage to Ran Yun!"
Ran Yan was surprised, thinking to herself that Liu Qingsong usually seemed lackluster and incompetent, yet how was it that he acted so quickly and decisively on this matter? She had only shifted her focus a few days ago, and now a marriage was already arranged.