Chapter 1435 - I Only Want You (1/2)

“Mr. and Mrs. Luo, I’m here to talk to you about something.”

“Ms. An… I mean… Mrs. Jin, please come in,” Mrs. Luo said frantically.

An Xiaoning and Fan Shixin entered and took a seat while the rest of the Luo family members, except Mr. and Mrs. Luo, left the living room.

After the servants served the tea, An Xiaoning said, “I’m here to talk about the marriage of the Mu and Luo families. I know that the wedding will be held tomorrow, but unfortunately, Ms. Mu and Mr. Luo cannot be married.”

Puzzled and astonished, Mr. and Mrs. Luo asked, “The two families have already had a discussion and came to an agreement. Why can’t they be married?”

“Perhaps you may not know this, but Ms. Mu and I are friends. She told me that she doesn’t wish to marry your son. She thinks that a marriage without love is not what she wants. Hence, she asked for my help to talk to you guys about this. If you’re agreeable, the Mu family is willing to replace Wansheng with another granddaughter of theirs. The wedding will still proceed accordingly.”

“Mrs. Jin, we’ve always taken marriage seriously. How can we be so hasty and casual about it? Besides, isn’t the other granddaughter Chief Fan’s girlfriend?”

“They’ve long broken up with each other because they couldn’t get along.”

Mrs. Luo replied, “Mrs. Jin, we’re not going to do the replacement. Mu Wansheng is the one whom we had set our sights on. We don’t want Wu Pingyang to be our daughter-in-law.”

“I hope you’ll consider this carefully before answering me, Mrs. Luo. If this negotiation is successful, it’ll be beneficial to both parties. If it doesn’t turn out well, I’m afraid it won’t be ideal when Wansheng goes missing out of nowhere and the wedding becomes jeopardized.”

Mrs. Luo’s heart wrenched and she looked at her husband.

Mr. Luo was much calmer than his wife. He immediately answered, “Mrs. Jin, to be honest with you, we only agreed to invest 10 million dollars into the Mu family’s company because our son wanted to marry Mu Wansheng. We’ll agree to replace her with someone else if we can have five million dollars returned to us.”

“That’s a reasonable request. I’ll convey your thoughts to the Mu family,” said An Xiaoning, who found their request to be understandable. After all, they had forked out such a huge sum and it was only right to ask for their money back if their son was not going to marry their ideal daughter-in-law.

Mr. Luo agreed, “Alright, we’ll have her replaced, then.”

“Sure. I won’t impose on you any further, then. We’re leaving now,” An Xiaoning said before rising from her seat.

“Goodbye, Mrs. Jin.”

“Alright, you don’t have to see me out.” As soon as she turned around, she stopped in her tracks and said to Mr. and Mrs. Luo, “I heard that your son is still dating his girlfriend and that they haven’t broken up yet. As his parents, how can you neglect your child’s happiness? Instead of letting him be in a clandestine relationship, you might as well let him marry the woman he loves. He’ll be happier that way too. No one gets to choose their family background, so why are you using that as a factor? What matters most is your son’s happiness, isn’t it?”

An Xiaoning and Fan Shixin had already left by the time Mrs. Luo recovered from the shock.

She snapped, “How could you agree to it!?!”

“What can we do if I don’t? I can tell that Ms. Mu is very important to An Xiaoning. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gone to the extent of visiting us personally. It’s not like we can go against her. It’s just a daughter-in-law. Besides, I found her words to have made sense. Why don’t we ask for the entire sum of 10 million dollars to be returned to us and let Luo Xing marry his girlfriend instead?”

Mrs. Luo objected vehemently, “No way. Did you forget what I did to stop them from dating each other? If we let them get married, she’s going to climb all over me. This can’t happen. Since she claims to be able to endure it, we’ll just let her continue bearing with it. I shall see how much longer she can put up with it. We’ll just replace Mu Wansheng with the other granddaughter.”

Luo Xing entered and asked, “Father, Mother, am I going to marry someone else instead of Mu Wansheng?”

“Yes, Mrs. Jin came today to talk to us about this. It doesn’t matter who you’re marrying anyway. You’ll marry Wu Pingyang tomorrow,” said Mrs. Luo.

“Mother, if it’s all the same to you, why can’t I marry my girlfriend? I must have owed you a living in my previous lifetime. That’s why you’re so cruel to me.”

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