Chapter 49 – Decision (1/2)

Chapter 49 – Decision

Ye Wei chuckled when he saw Joe Yin’s fake charming look as he knew better now. ‘Does she think I am stupid enough to be manipulated by her?’ He was more repulsed than charmed.

“Joe Yin is very mature for her age, and not to mention she’s a talented girl! She is already a six star Student, and destined to become a Warrior at a young age!” Joe Wan couldn’t take her eyes off the young girl she saw as a good daughter in law.

Nobody could blame her, the idea of having a Warrior daughter in law was very attractive.

Joe Wan was a distant relative of the Joe’s visiting today. She heard the rumor of a marriage proposal involving her son and Joe Yin before anyone in the Ye family even knew they were going to have the Joe’s as visitors.

She was ecstatic after hearing the news, and Joe Wan would be lying if she said she never thought about her son and Joe Yin marrying each other. Now that the day had arrived she could no longer contain herself.

Ye Wei finally understood why his mom was so excited. He shook his head and decided it was not an enthusiasm he shared. He had no interest in someone like Joe Yin!

Back in the days when they were children, Ye Wei did like Joe Yin, and they were very close to each other. But that was not the case now, not because she wasn’t pretty enough, not because she wasn’t talented enough to match Master Yi’s legacy apprentice, but because he had seen her true colors.

When he was going through hardships in his life, not only Joe Yin was not there to support him, but she looked down on Ye Wei when he was suffering. If that had not changed his opinion about Joe Yin, the recent insult surely did. It was not easy to come to terms with how little he meant to Joe Yin, but Ye Wei dealt with the negativities and saw the bright side of things with a little help from his friends and family.

“Zheng Qing, My brother! Your family is surely doing better with Ye Wei now appointed as Master Yi’s Legacy Apprentice! That is an enviable honor!” Joe Zheng Feng’s energy did not match his white hair and beard. He expressed his heartfelt respect to the Ye Patriarch with great enthusiasm.

“Ah don’t mention it, the young ones in your family are not doing so bad themselves! Joe Pei is what? Twenty-two? It’s admirable that he is already a five star Warrior!” While on the topic Ye Zheng Qing thought about Ye Zhong, and he was slightly saddened. “And you have Joe Yin; she’s a six star Student right?!”

“They are nothing compared to little Wei!” The Joe Patriarch could not stop looking at Ye Wei enviously. He was willing to do a lot of things if in return he could call Master Yi’s Legacy Apprentice his son in law. “By the way! Ye Wei is already thirteen years old if I remember correctly, is he engaged to anyone? It’s about time for him to think about marriage don’t you think?” Joe Zheng Feng sipped his cup of tea acting as casual as he could.

In this age of the Zhou Dynasty sixteen year olds was the time when one was considered an adult. Not only was it common for children to get engaged at the age of twelve and married by sixteen, it was actually encouraged. Humanity always needed new blood to fight the savage beasts and demons.

It has only been a few days, but news of Ye Wei becoming Master Yi’s Legacy Apprentice already spread far and wide. A few families had already come knocking on their doors discussing possibilities of their young daughters getting engaged to Ye Wei. But Ye Zheng Qing turned them all down because he was not satisfied with them.

“I don’t know about that; we have to be very careful who we match Ye Wei with. We don’t want to upset Master Yi. He should have a say about Ye Wei’s future too!” Ye Zheng Qing knew exactly what Joe Zheng Feng was implying as he looked at Joe Yin then replied calmly.

After the Du family started their campaign against the Ye’s, the Joe’s didn’t think twice before cutting all ties with the Ye’s. Ye Zheng Qing could understand the reasoning behind it, but he was still not entirely comfortable with how swift the Joe’s handled it without even consulting him.

The Ye Patriarch was disappointed in the Joe family, but he was also aware Ye Wei and Joe Yin were close, if Ye Wei wanted to marry her he would not say no.

“Zheng Qing brother! What do you think about Joe Yin? Ye Wei and her basically grew up together, and they understand each other very well I think! What do you say to giving them a life together?” Joe Zheng Feng attempted to hide his nerves; therefore, he suggested the matter in a joking tone.