Chapter 152 - The Jia Family Turn Down The Marriage (1/2)

“What happened? What’s all this fuss?” asked Liu Qianqian.

“Miss, your marriage is…I’m afraid it’s over. Just now the Jia Family sent someone to deliver a message saying, saying…that they don’t want to tie the knot with our family.”

In the yard, Ye Xiaoxian, Xiao Baoshan and Liu Qianqian were all quite taken aback.

It had been going so smoothly. Why had they suddenly turned the marriage down?

Ye Xiaoxian asked the maid, “Have the Jia Family given any reason?”

“They said that, that…miss has tried to kill herself before and starved almost to death. They are worried that you may have some sort of health problem. They are also concerned that you may have a recurrence of an old illness and try to kill yourself again.”

“How could this happen!” Liu Qianqian said furiously. “I’m looking good right now, aren’t I? I can eat two liang (a unit of weight in ancient China, around 200 grams) of rice per meal. My appet.i.te is more than good. The Jia Family has actually inquired about what happened to me. If my past concerns them so badly, I’d rather end this marriage. I don’t care!”

However, Ye Xiaoxian sensed something strange here. “Have they heard something from others? Maybe some people don’t want your families to tie the knot and sow discord.”

Liu Qianqian had suffered from anorexia before which was known by many in town. The Jia Family was seeking to tie the knot with the Liu Family, so they must have known this before the blind date. They must have asked and figured it out. Besides, matchmakers now were such smooth talkers and must be capable of making what happened to Liu Qianqian sound plausible.

Liu Qianqian was not in a good mood now as she was thought so poorly of by others, so she felt so disgraced. She simply said, “Anyway, the Jia Family is not sincere at all. They can go back on their word when a deal has already been made.”

Ye Xiaoxian knew that Liu Qianqian was at the peak of her fury, so it was useless to try and persuade her to be calm, so she tried to excite Liu Qianqian. “Qianqian, whether the Jias are sincere or not is not important. However, if there really is someone who has spoiled your marriage deliberately, can we just let them off? Don’t you want to know who’s behind this? If this person has said something bad about you this time wouldn’t he do so again? We can’t let someone spoil everything for you all the time, can we?”

Liu Qianqian thought about it and felt that Ye Xiaoxian had a point. “But I don’t know who is gossiping about me behind my back.”

“Then let’s check on it with the matchmaker. The matchmaker is so articulate that she surely can manage to inquire into it.”

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