Marrying Gold and Jade

Lin Yu turned to look at him.

"When did I say I didn't want to go?"

Lin Ji lowered his eyes and said, "After all, you and him have discussed marriage before."

Lin Yu withdrew her hand, looked at the jagged and persecuted branches beside her, and then looked at the man beside her who was slightly pursing his lips. She almost immediately realized that he was taking out his anger on a pot of flowers.

As for what he was angry about, it was naturally because of her unclear attitude and her seemingly unforgettable old feelings.

"Why didn't I notice it before?" Lin Yu stared at the man's tense jaw, "Lin Ji, you are so petty."

Then she put her fingertips in front of him, squeezed them tightly and said, "It's just this big!"

The angry man grabbed her hand again, and this time refused to let go no matter how she struggled.

Lin Yu let him hold it, "I say, Lord Lin, who is impartial and selfless, are you too conceited sometimes? You don't even listen to what I say, and you sentence me without thinking."

This was the case with Ming Yuan in the past, and it is also the case with Shen Lian now.

"If you want to chop off my head, at least listen to my explanation."

She raised her head seriously and met his gaze without any guilt.

She looks pretty and flamboyant, just like when she was a child.

I haven't seen her like this in a long time.

Lin Ji's fingers moved, and his slender white wrist could feel the warmth through the clothes that were getting thicker in autumn.

He looked away slightly, "I won't kill you."

Bringing her hand back to her, he pulled back his knuckles.

He added: "I can't bear to part with it."

Both sentences are extremely short, with a slight pause in between.

Lin Yu read it carefully before he understood it. He just continued to act according to what his own title "Master Lin" said.

He also said that he couldn't bear to kill her.

Again.

He always manages to make people blush unexpectedly.

Although she took back the hand he had pinched, the touch on the back of her hand was still lingering, causing Lin Yu to twist her sleeves in a distracted state.

"Cheng Kejia and I are quite close, but she didn't tell me anything about her marriage."

She tried to say something else to divert her attention, "I'm going to ask her to come over and ask her in person!"

Lin Ji naturally had no objection to this.

"You're still talking about me!"

Cheng Kejia was invited over the next afternoon. The table was filled with the best tea in the house, as well as the osmanthus cake that the kitchen always made at this time of year.

"Lin Yu, who of us is not honest enough? When I asked you, you and Lin Ji are not blood relatives, and you asked me if you had any feelings for him, and you immediately told me no."

"What are you telling me? He likes that weirdo in your family. You said you know he doesn't like you..."

The girl spoke like a treasure, and took a sip of tea, "What about now? Aren't you going to discuss marriage with someone?"

Lin Ji has not made this public yet, and Cheng Kejia only knew this because Shen Lian told him.

Since they were not familiar with each other before, he just asked what kind of woman Lin Ji wanted to marry. Shen Lian was vague and only said that he had someone in his heart.

After some further research recently, I found out that this person is Lin Yu!

Cheng Kejia became angrier the more she thought about it. She was having a heart-to-heart talk with someone, but Lin Yu pretended to be ignorant even though she knew the truth.

Absolutely abominable!

It was only after listening to her that Lin Yu realized that she was still holding a grudge against her because of this matter.

No wonder no news was leaked before.

"I used to..."

Thinking back to what I said at that time, and now that Lin Ji is asking me to marry him, it seems quite misleading.

The atmosphere suddenly changed.

"I really didn't know anything at that time. Lin Ji kept everything to himself. Who could have guessed what he was thinking?"

Seeing that Cheng Kejia held her head high and looked unmoved, Lin Yu tugged at her sleeve again.

"You have to believe me."

Cheng Kejia had been very angry before. After all, he was not bad to Lin Yu and he was very open with her. He thought it was natural to feel hateful for being deceived by her.

But today, seeing her explaining herself with grievance and her expression not pretending, the anger that had been pent up in her heart disappeared for the most part.

"That's enough," Cheng Kejia folded his arms and glanced at her after being harassed for a long time. "Save this for dealing with men."

The words were not nice, but the tone was slightly better.

Lin Yu noticed it keenly and asked her: "Then can you tell me why you suddenly got together with Shen Lian?"

Cheng Kejia was not close to her sisters, and her younger brother Kesong also disliked each other.

On the contrary, she could speak frankly to Lin Yu: "My father had a mistress before. He took her home as a concubine a few years ago and even said she was his equal. Did you know about this?"

Cheng's father had a relatively smooth career, but he was an extremely romantic person by nature.

Not only Lin Yu, many people knew these inside stories, so she nodded without hesitation.

"That concubine has a son and a daughter. My step-sister is a month or two older than me. She married and moved to the capital last year. She came back to visit her parents at the beginning of the year. She was very glorious."

Lin Yu was slightly confused. "What does this have to do with you and Shen Lian?"

"Why not?" Cheng Kejia suddenly became excited. "In fact, she only married a sixth-rank official, and she was more glorious because she was close to the emperor. Of course, I can't be compared with her."

"Lin Ji is the top scorer in high school this year, so I thought he was good. Unfortunately, he is a stubborn person, so I've given up now."

"Only when I came to your house with Croissant that day did I know about Shen Lian. He is four years younger than Lin Ji, but they were able to keep up with each other in school."

"Except for Lin Ji, he is my best choice."

She was impatient and spoke quickly. After listening, Lin Yu just said, "But he is the magistrate of Huating, and the magistrate is only a seventh-rank official."

"That's only temporary," Cheng Kejia answered neatly, "One can't just look at the present. After all, he is Master Shen's student, so he's almost like an adopted son."

"Croissant also told me that he deliberately dropped to the third place because Grand Tutor Shen was exiled to Changzhou. When Grand Tutor Shen returns in the future, he will naturally rise with the tide."

Seeing the bewildered look on his face, Cheng Kejia kindly explained, "You don't know how close Grand Tutor Shen is to the current emperor."

Lin Yu shook his head, but he was not concerned about the emperor and Master Shen.

She just said: "Then you don't like Shen Lian."

The girl who had been speaking confidently just now was now visibly choked.

After a while, he said, "Shen Lian is a very good person."

"You just don't like him."

Lin Yu heard it clearly. She went through so much trouble, talking about her sister who was born to a concubine, Master Shen and the emperor, and also talking about her own face.

The only thing that was not mentioned was Shen Lian.

Although she had never asked him in person, Lin Yu could guess that if he didn't like Cheng Kejia, he would definitely not agree to this marriage.

Cheng Kejia was annoyed by her questioning and frowned as he said, "As for feelings, if you spend time together day and night, they will eventually be cultivated!"

"What if we can't cultivate it?"

"That... that doesn't matter. I just want him to have a quiet place."

Lin Yu shook his head silently again.

Poor Shen Lian...