Chapter 807 - Fail to Bring Them Together
Chapter 807 Fail to Bring Them Together
“Sorry, I have an ulterior motive. Sister Lin, sorry, I made use of you. Since the Ninth Prince is here, please take her back. Regarding our engagement, since you disagree with it, just forget it,” Xiu said, maintaining her expression.
She looked indifferent, neither angry nor aggrieved so that even Lin Mengya could not tell what she was thinking.
However, Xiu’s hand that was holding her hand in her sleeve tightly gave away Xiu’s nervousness.
Xiu was not as composed as she looked.
But Lin Mengya couldn’t point it out so that Xiu could at least maintain her image as the frank girl, who even disdained to defend herself, in front of her beloved.
“You finally admit it. Sister, let’s go! This kind of person does not deserve your kindness!” Wanyan Yu said.
Seeing that his sister still felt pity for the repulsive girl, he got even more furious.
Grabbing Lin Mengya’s hand, Wanyan Yu took her away angrily.
However, he did not notice that Xiu, who had pretended to be composed, was gradually overwhelmed by emotion and showed a sad look behind him.
Who said that young people usually fell for someone in a moment of infatuation?
Xiu had done all she could to help her beloved even at the cost of her eyes.
Now in return, he left decisively in disgust, but she was still unable to get over him.
As the only witness of her infatuation with Xiaoyu, Lin Mengya felt as if she had knocked over a jar of bitter water in her heart so that her heart was filled with bitterness.
Xiu was too silly, yet she let Xiaoyu go so easily that Lin Mengya involuntarily felt sorry for her.
Lin Mengya let Xiaoyu drag her out of the Dongfang’s Mansion and push her into the carriage in an almost rude way.
Lin Mengya was about to lose her temper, but at the sight of Xiaoyu’s extremely sullen face, she had to try hard to hold back her anger.
At this moment, it was more necessary for her to calm down.
She did not completely ignore what Xiaoyu had told her.
It seemed that Xiaoyu had a strong aversion to this kind of thing.
Could it be that something had happened before?
She secretly took a few deep breaths, telling herself she must calm down.
Otherwise, the conflict between Xiaoyu and Xiu would only be increasingly sharp.
When she finally calmed herself down, she saw Xiaoyu, who was in a corner of the carriage, staring at her gloomily.
Damned brat! It was obviously he who caused this trouble, yet he dared to glare at her like that!
Fortunately, Lin Mengya still kept the proper business in mind, so she didn’t give Xiaoyu a sound thrashing right away.
“Don’t be angry. You must have misunderstood Xiu. We have gone through plenty of things in the Jin State and the Nation of Lintian. I know you may not like her, but she definitely will not hurt me. I think I have more say in this than you, don’t I?” Lin Mengya tried to patiently comfort this unreasonable fellow with sweet words.
However, he declined to talk to her and turned his head, as arrogant as a little rooster.
She couldn’t stand it anymore!
“Ouch! Sister, I’m wrong! It hurts!” Wanyan Yu shouted.
He, who had acted arrogantly a moment ago, gave in after Lin Mengya pinched his ear.
Lin Mengya opened her eyes wide and kept pinching Xiaoyu’s ear mercilessly.
Xiaoyu didn’t dare to put on any airs and could only admit defeat meekly.
“I would like to see if you dare to talk to me like that again!” Lin Mengya said and let him go after pinching his ear hard.
Although the aggrieved look in Xiaoyu’s eyes, the stimulation turned him back into a lackey.
He looked at his sister meekly and didn’t dare to act arrogantly anymore.
“That’s a good boy. As your sister, I won’t mislead you. Xiaoyu, no matter what happened between you and Xiu, you must be aware that Xiu will never hurt you. In any case, you and Xiu are allies rather than enemies. I know that you are displeased with the marriage arranged by His Majesty privately, but you should know that this is equally unfair to Xiu. You are not outstanding enough to make all girls desperate to marry you. Moreover, even if you don’t like her, is it inappropriate to show that directly, isn’t it?” Lin Mengya said.
In fact, Wanyan Yu said those words out of concern for Lin Mengya and rage. Now he had calmed down a lot.
In fact, he was well aware of what Lin Mengya had just mentioned.
Nevertheless, he, who felt sufficiently aggrieved, involuntarily glared at Dongfang Xiu with angry eyes.
Unfortunately, Lin Mengya was unaware of all this.
“If you want to say something, just go ahead. I’m your sister, so you can tell me anything,” Lin Mengya said.
Seeing the aversion on Xiaoyu’s face, she knew that she had not succeeded in persuading him.
It seemed that she should keep working on this.
Staring at Lin Mengya, Xiaoyu felt sufficiently aggrieved and reluctantly told her what had happened before, “It’s all their Dongfang Family’s fault for relying on their power to insult me. Here’s what happened…”
Although Lin Mengya had no idea how matchmakers performed their work before, she had seen on TV that those matchmakers, each with a big mole on their faces, usually tried to bring a young man and a young lady together by touting one of them in front of the other and doing this conversely.
Then, the two of them met. If they had a favorable impression of each other and fell for each other, they would continue seeing each other, and eventually get married and have children.
Although she did not have much life experience, she had a rough idea of this.
The matchmakers should at least introduce the young man and the young lady to each other and offer them a chance to know each other.
When it came to bringing Xiaoyu and Xiu together, the elders of the Dongfang Family obviously had no talent in this at all.
It was said that on a moonless night, Xiaoyu, who got out of the imperial palace alone and was about to return to his mansion, was kidnapped by a group of men in black.
Well, to put it more bluntly, they caught him off guard by knocking him out with a stick and carrying him away.
They directly took him to Xiu’s boudoir.
According to the narration of Wanyan Yu, one of those people involved in this, he could only sum up his complicated feelings as shock and rage.
It was unknown who came up with this lousy idea of making Xiaoyu sleep with Xiu so that Xiaoyu had to agree to marry Xiu despite his unwillingness.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as they wished. Ordinary means didn’t work on Xiaoyu who had just gotten the venomous heart insect.
However, Xiu seemed to have lost her mind.
She thought it was a sexual dream, in which not only did she boldly and passionately express her affection for Xiaoyu, but she also tried to sleep with Xiaoyu.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Xiu smelled something fishy about this, which stopped the tragedy from happening.
But it left Xiaoyu, who was held hostage and almost raped, scarred in a long term.
Moreover, since then, those members of the Dongfang Family, who intended to settle the engagement between Xiaoyu and Xiu, had tried to make Xiaoyu submit by various means every now and then.
He was so annoyed under their pressure that he went to the Dongfang’s Mansion to make a scene, and these unrestrained people eventually knocked it off.
Since then, Xiaoyu had considered the Dongfang Family synonymous with trouble and grievances.
Presumably no man liked to be forced to accept a girl in this way.
Over time, Xiaoyu either stayed at a respectful distance from the Dongfang Family or simply had no favorable impression of them like before.
Hearing this long story, Lin Mengya gritted her teeth.
She had no idea who came up with such a simple and direct method.
The person presumably did not expect it would only make Xiaoyu more resistant to his engagement with Xiu.
Even if Xiaoyu eventually agreed to marry Xiu, Xiu was destined to be unable to win Xiaoyu’s heart for the rest of her life.
Things were getting increasingly tricky.
“Since you said that, it seems to be pointless for me to continue persuading you. But you should be aware of one thing: Xiu is innocent, and what they had done has nothing to do with her. If she has anything to do with this, that’s her affection for you. But it isn’t her fault for falling for you, is it? I don’t expect you to fall in love with her immediately, but I hope that at least you can stop flinging out hard words at her and putting me in a difficult position, okay?” Lin Mengya said.
Xiaoyu was gentle and meek in front of her.
However, with the pride and stubbornness rooted in his heart, the drastic means of the Dongfang Family had long aroused his aversion to Xiu and even the entire Dongfang Family.
This was not a good thing.
After all, the Dongfang Family was wavering at present, and their enemies could make use of the Dongfang Family to make big trouble.
Xiu had a different position in the Dongfang Family. With Xiu and Dongfang Xu around, they did not have to worry about the Dongfang Family’s stand for the time being.
But it was extremely difficult for them to draw the entire Dongfang Family over to their side.
She could only hope the other members of the Dongfang Family would never find out the reason why Xiu became blind.
Otherwise, she could only wash Xiaoyu clean and put him on Xiu’s bed to beg for their forgiveness.
“Sister, what are you thinking about? I guess you are also thinking that they went too far, aren’t you?” Xiaoyu said, seeming to have found someone on his side.
Lin Mengya smiled.
How should she explain that she was thinking about how to make Xiaoyu repay Xiu’s kindness by sleeping with Xiu?
Hearing his sister’s words, Xiaoyu agreed for the sake of his sister despite his unwillingness.
Lin Mengya said, “That’s the right thing to do. Although there seems to be nothing special about the Dongfang Family, my intuition tells me that it’s definitely not simple. If you want to get their support, the first and most important thing is to avoid coming into any conflict with Xiu. She is of a different status in the Dongfang Family, and she is my close friend. No matter in emotional or rational terms, I won’t allow anyone to hurt her. Xiaoyu, you should be aware of this.”
Xiaoyu still wanted to say something else to defend himself, but after a while, he could only agree dejectedly.
He was aware of the severity of this matter even without Lin Mengya telling him.