Chapter 323 - The Unilaterally-Obeyed Engagement Paper in Bai Yihaos Hand (2/2)
“Relax, wait for some time. And Emperor Father’s imperial decree of granting the marriage will come to your manor, and anyone else will not dare to think of getting you in the future.” Feng Yuran held Mo Xuetong’s hands and said softly, “You just need to prepare to be married.”
“Will You Yuecheng…” Mo Xuetong turned red with a little shyness and asked uneasily.
“You Yuecheng is busy enough with his own affairs now. He cannot decide which girl he wants to marry. Just now, the Ding General Manor’s Ling Ling Mingyan quarreled with some young ladies who had favorable impression on him secretly. So he cannot get away in such a short time.”
In fact, not only in such a short time, but also in the future, You Yuecheng could not get away.
“Ling Mingyan is the woman whom You Yuecheng is bound to get married with, because he dares to put his mind on Mo Xuemin, my woman. And he even intended to force the woman to marry him when I was injured. But for the finger man placed in the Mo Manor, You Yuecheng would have imposed the marriage on Mo Xuemin successfully,” thought by Feng Yuran.
Thinking that when he and Bai Yihao were fighting with wisdom and courage, You Yuecheng was intending to reap the spoils of their fight effortlessly, Feng Yuran could not hold back his anger and decide to vent it out by any means.
Didn’t You Yuecheng want to get married? Fine! Feng Yuran thought he would achieve You Yuecheng’s dream. After today, You Yuecheng had to get married despite his unwillingness.
Mo Xuetong nodded at Feng Yuran’s affirmative tone. But You Yuecheng was settled, how about Bai Yihao?
“That engagement…” She raised her head and stammered with a frown.
After all, Bai Yihao was not You Yuecheng!
“Is it the paper?” Feng Yuran loosed Mo Xuetong’s hand and flipped his slender fingers. Then, a piece of old paper appeared in his hand. The faded pages could tell its long-time existence.
“Where did you get it?” Mo Xuetong asked, as she was so overjoyed that she reached for it hurriedly.
“Bai Yihao exploited the Fifth Princess to set fire to the mansion, so I stole the engagement paper in that chaotic situation. After all, he did not take it seriously and just put it aside. But for me, it would have been burned into ashes.” Feng Yuran said with a triumphant smile. He would not tell Mo Xuetong that how nervous Bai Yihao got about the box and the engagement paper in it.
No matter what happened, Tong’er was mine. No one was allowed to take her away.
Mo Xuetong’s attention was all fixed on the paper in his hand.
Counting in the last life and this one, she lived a life as a human being twice. But it was the first time she saw the engagement paper that her mother had made. Mo Xuetong wondered what her mother had done and whether her mother knew how important the unblemished name for a girl. How could mother jest about such an important matter and sign the engagement paper that both sides did not agree with?
When she was fifteen years old, if her betrothed husband did not come to her family to talk about the marriage, they could choose to marry another person freely they liked without any intervention.
But the restrictions only worked on Mo Xuetong. Unless she knew that Bai Yihao was also at an early age when the engagement was made, she would a.s.sume that it was Bai Yihao’s plot.
The restrictions on one side while the respect on the other side! And the time to fulfill the paper was set at her fifteen years old. In her last life, she remembered clearly that this engagement paper had never appeared.
“Mother, why did you sign this marriage paper?” Mo Xuetong’s hands were cold, and she bit her lip hard to suppress the pains welling up from the bottom of her heart.
In the Qin Kingdom, the best age for a girl to be engaged was thirteen or fourteen years old. If any girl could not get engaged at fifteen years old, it was rather hard to choose a suitable one. Mo Xuemin wondered what evidence her mother based on to believe that Mo Xuemin should wait until Bai Yihao thought she was valuable and then married her.
In the last life, Bai Yihao’s name appeared occasionally in the people’s talks. The proud Crown Prince and she were just two people living in different worlds. Even if they were on the same plane, they would never intersect. She was just a daughter of a common official in the Qin Kingdom. How could her mother a.s.sume that the Crown Prince of the Yan Kingdom would marry a humble girl?
“Is this why Mother herself did not take it seriously?”
But if it was true, why did Mother did not speak it out straight but made the engagement paper to constrain me and give Bai Yihao absolute freedom?
Regardless of whether Bai Yihao married her or not, she had to wait until she was fifteen years old. If he wanted and took the engagement paper, she had to marry; only if he was unwilling, they could marry the one they liked without limit.
What a ridiculous engagement!
Nothing could be more ridiculous than it in this life. The paper was torn into pieces and thrown into the air. Mo Xuetong squatted down on the ground to pick up pieces one by one, took the flint from the side and lit a fire. She threw all the pieces into the fire and watched the fire swallow them.
No more entanglement ever since.
It was such in the last life, and so should it be in this life!
“Tong’er, it’s over. No such thing anymore…” Feng Yuran held her slim waist, patted her shoulder gently, and comforted.
Being embraced in his arms to feel his solid chest, Mo Xuetong could not hold back her tears any longer. How could she not have any complaints? She could not figure out the matter about her mother until now and thought her mother left her in the dark, which was really the biggest mistake.
Her mother ordered Nanny Ming to take an oath in her own name, but exercised her responsibility unilaterally. Was it the thing that a natural mother should do?
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