Chapter 147: A very awkward family dinner 2 (2/2)

”Although Yao Yao is of humble birth, she is very well-behaved and talented. She goes beyond her position. General Lu has been posted out of the capital, Chen Yao can keep her highness company while at Ningzhuo. With her married into the Lu family, I can finally be at ease and not worry anymore. That way, I can proudly meet my deceased friend”.

Su Liya's nostrils flared and her breathing increased, she felt like shoving madam Jiang and her perfect niece down a long roll of stairs. She flexed her fingers, eyes focused on madam Jiang who either didn't read the room or did but pretended otherwise.

To sell madam Lu on her horrible plan, Su Liya glanced at madam Lu to see if she was buying any of the balls of lies Madam Jiang was throwing but she couldn't read anything from her mother-in-law. Madam Li's poker face was no joke, her expression hasn't changed since madam Jiang arrived.

Su Liya stylishly placed her hands behind her neck and massaged her stiffened neck gently. Her gaze fell on the old Peacock that had spread out her overgrown tails on the seat to her mother-in-law's left. For the past hour or so madam Jiang the Peacock had begun hosting a little complement feast for her niece.

Su Liya shook her head and rolled her eyes, the woman was trying harder than a telemarketer to sell Madam Lu on taking in her niece as a concubine for Lu Yaozhu. What Madam Jiang began gracing the mansion with her ”wonderful” presence, Su Liya had suspected that she had an ulterior motive but since the woman was yet to show her hand.

Su Liya kept her suspicion to herself, she didn't want to get in her mother-in-law's bad side. Plus it wouldn't help her case if she made a mountain out of this molehill. Madam Jiang lacks patience, after only a few visits she had hurriedly shown her hands.

For a woman that claimed to be here to introduce her daughter to her future in-laws, she was trying so hard to propel her younger niece forward into the family. Su Liya knew that it was normal for men in this time to have a concubine or two. Before getting married she gas thought about what to do if Lu Yaozhu should get a concubine.

While she was of the modern reasoning of one wife to a man, she couldn't dismiss the traditions of ancient times. She decided earlier on to concede to the social conventions of this time, instead of trying to change things up.

She always found it heartwarming when writers made the male lead of the transmigration books she read refuse to take concubines and only hold the mistress in her heart. She wasn't foolish to assume that would happen to her, that was the difference between reality and fiction.

All her plans dissolved now that she faced a situation like this, she had unknowingly started to see Lu Yaozhu as her possession. To her, he wasn't just a novel character but a man, her man. This manipulative madam had her eyes locked on her man.

The moment the words ”her man” popped up in her head, she got scared because that was the first time she had referred to him like that in her head. Instead of feeling strange, she felt very normal, Luke she did not just call a man she had only met eight months earlier her man.

Su Liya didn't pay any mind to whatever was said between the two madams. Whatever they said was not relevant, not when she was faced with thoughts that she had initially hoped to avoid.

Madam Lu glanced at Su Liya, she had expected to get a response but when she didn't. Her perception of Su Liya improved, she didn't bother mincing words and said to madam Jiang, ”the Lu family does not keep concubines, madam Jiang. If you are so concerned about your niece's future, you can marry her to A'Yong. That way you can be at ease and her future can be set. Your daughter had the supportive Fu and Jiang family behind her, if you are gone nobody can bully her”.

Madam Jiang looked up eyes wide, ”Wha-what, I don't understand!”

”What is there not to understand, I will pretend not to have heard what was said. It is getting late and I am feeling a little tired”.

Madam Jiang was too embarrassed to argue with Madam Lu. She immediately made up a flimsy excuse and left the mansion.