In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

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Everyone in the room was stunned.

Even the prince was stunned for a moment.

The prince turned his head and looked at Bai Chuyao in surprise, and asked stupidly: "You and Xu Wanrong are in love? Wow, how come I didn't know!"

The corner of Bai Chuyao's mouth twitched. The prince was really ruining the atmosphere.

Of course, I have nothing to do with Xu Wanrong.

But didn't Xu Wanrong want to hang herself in their house? That would be interesting.

He could have taken this opportunity to say that Xu Wanrong wanted to elope with him and was unwilling to marry Bai Liezhao...that's why she was hanged.

Since this happened in the Bai family, the Bai family can say whatever they want.

He simply discarded everything and let the Xu family suffer a great loss in silence.

How could anyone possibly let Xu Wanrong, who was a pure person, become his concubine? Therefore, he would definitely not agree.

But as long as Bai Chuyao insisted on letting Xu Wanrong be a concubine, then Xu Wanrong would have no choice but to be a concubine; otherwise, the Bai family would simply arrange for her to marry another scholar as her principal wife.

Then they would retreat on their own.

After hearing these words, Bai Yansong felt so angry that he almost fainted.

"You rebellious son!" He pointed at Bai Chuyao with trembling hands, "How could you let Miss Wanrong be your concubine? Do you know that Miss Wanrong's family has a strict tradition for generations and will never curry favor with the powerful? She will definitely not be a concubine!"

"But if she didn't try to get rich, how could she get engaged to the Bai family?" Bai Chuyao raised his eyebrows as if he had heard a big joke and said to Bai Yansong, "Since you, father, are so willing to match couples, then you can match me with Miss Wanrong."

"Lin has always been very generous and magnanimous. She shouldn't refuse."

After hearing these words, Bai Yansong felt like he was almost fainting.

Mrs. Xu next to her had a look of disbelief on her face.

She fell into an eerie silence.

After a long while, the old lady's hands suddenly trembled, and she said to Lord Xu and Madam Xu beside her: "Let's go, let's go home, let's go home!"

When Lord Xu and Madam Xu heard what Madam Xu said, they were furious: "Why do we have to go home? We haven't settled the matter with the Bai family yet!!"

"We have to settle the matter of Wanrong! This... the eldest master wants to take Wanrong as a concubine, this is definitely not allowed!"

Madam Xu shook her head and said to them with a wry smile: "Go home quickly and don't embarrass yourself here."

"Hurry, hurry, take Wanrong home quickly, and still have some dignity."

"...If I don't go home, I'm afraid it will be all over!"

Old Madam Xu hurriedly took the two of them and Xu Wanrong back home at lightning speed.

Xu Wanrong had a wound on her neck. She didn't know what had happened. Her face was pale and she followed her family home in a daze.

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Seeing the Xu family walking away, Bai Chuyao sneered and turned to look at Bai Yansong: "Father, there are some accounts that I haven't settled with you yet!"

The two of them immediately broke out into a fierce quarrel inside the Bai family.

In the carriage outside, Madam Xu held Xu Wanrong in her arms and said to her sadly, "Wanrong, it's not that grandma won't help you, but grandma really can't help you with this matter... Let's not dream about the wealth of the Bai family in the future, let the Bai family help us arrange a good marriage."

"...When the time comes, I will beg for mercy, and Bai Yansong will definitely give you a few boxes of dowry, so that you can look more respectable."

Hearing this, Xu Wanrong cried and said, "Grandma, why?"

"Why can't I break the impasse even if I hang myself? Why?!"

She cried and said, "Now I am so embarrassed that I don't know where the other sisters in the Xu family can put their faces... Jingdu is laughing at us right now!"

"I originally thought... that this desperate move of mine could bring honor and wealth to the entire Xu family, but I didn't expect that the Bai family would still not agree... to let me marry the second son of the Bai family!"

"Bai Liezhao is not as smart as his elder brother, nor is he the eldest son, nor is he a business genius like his third brother. He is just a warrior. Why are they so unwilling to give in?!"

Old Madam Xu listened to these words in silence, and just kept patting Xu Wanrong's shoulders.

Madam Xu was extremely angry and rolled up her sleeves to jump off the carriage: "No, I get angry just thinking about it! How can they humiliate Wanrong like this! Why do they want Wanrong to be Bai Chuyao's concubine?!"

"Who does Bai Chuyao think he is? He's almost thirty years old, how can he be Wanrong's husband?!"

"And that Lin, she and Bai Chuyao already have three sons... Bai Chuyao actually covets Wanrong's beauty so much!"

Lord Xu had a gloomy expression on his face, and he probably figured out what was going on.

He scolded Madam Xu harshly: "Do you think Bai Chuyao is coveting your daughter's beauty? Can you stop dreaming?!"

"Even before she got married, Lin was already a famous beauty in the capital. And Bai Chuyao is definitely not the kind of person who would be dazzled by beauty. He has a beautiful sister, and even if he was attracted by her beauty, he would have been tired of her a long time ago!! Do you think he would care about your daughter?!"

Madam Xu was dumbfounded: "What does Bai Chuyao mean?"

Lord Xu sneered: "...If you say this, it's nothing more than telling everyone that if Wanrong wants to marry into the Bai family, then there is only one way, that is to marry Bai Chuyao and become the concubine of the eldest son of the Bai family!"

Madam Xu nodded and sighed to Lord Xu, "You are used to being in the officialdom, so you can see these things clearly."

The more she spoke, the more frightened she became. "Bai Chuyao knew that if Wanrong committed suicide at the Bai family, people in Kyoto would definitely speculate... that this matter was related to the Bai family... and she was engaged to the second young master at the Bai family, which means she is even more tied to the Bai family... They can't break the deadlock, and their road is blocked."

“Now that he committed suicide, the people in Kyoto can only guess that it was related to Bai Liezhao and that something went wrong with the marriage, but they don’t know what exactly happened.”

"Bai Chuyao is a thoughtful person. He thought, if Wanrong must marry into the Bai family... then why must she marry the second young master? She can marry him or the third young master! Since the people in Kyoto think so, as long as he says that this matter is related to Bai Liezhao... whatever nonsense he says, the people in Kyoto will believe it."

"Let's say... Wanrong had a secret affair with Bai Chuyao earlier, and now she is going to marry the second young master. She is so ashamed and angry that she wants to marry the eldest young master no matter what, even if it means she has to be a concubine!"

"In this way, can't we get rid of the Second Young Master completely?!"

"Bai Chuyao is a person who cares about his brothers and sisters... but not his own reputation. If he marries Wanrong, he won't care about his own reputation at that time."

"...Perhaps, he also took his own reputation into consideration, but he insisted that we don't want Wanrong to marry him as a concubine! He really calculated it correctly!"