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"Sister, don’t be angry anymore." Lin Yuan stood up and poured a cup of hot tea for Mo Sanniang to soothe her throat, which was a bit hoarse, perhaps because they had just had an argument.

Having taken a sip of water, Mo Sanniang recalled Xie Zhiyuan’s words and looked intently at Lin Yuan before asking, "Sister, do you know what he just told me? He said that he didn’t want to marry Ma Xiaoqian, that it was his mother who forced him into it.

He was planning to come and tell me earlier, but he was tied up with his official duties at the Yamen and couldn’t get away, which is why those two got to the shop before him.

Sister, do you think what he said is true?

Is the Yamen really that busy? He hasn’t come to see me for a long time, so maybe it really is very busy. "

Lin Yuan held her forehead, love really does make a fool of a woman. Li Chang, that Master Magistrate, spends his days in the brothel, and yet the Yamen is supposed to be busy with official work? Xie Zhiyuan sure knows how to make excuses!

And this foolish woman, she actually started to believe him.

Lin Yuan replied with a question instead of an answer, "Did he also say that once he marries Ma Xiaoqian, he’d persuade his mother to let you in as well?"

Mo Sanniang, who was about to drink water, looked incredulously towards Lin Yuan; had it not been for the fact that she saw Lin Yuan pushing her father out herself, she almost thought the girl had overheard their conversation.

Seeing Mo Sanniang’s expression, Lin Yuan knew she had guessed correctly.

A complete scoundrel, truly a bona fide scoundrel!

Not content with wasting several years of a girl’s youth, now that he has a wife, he still dreams of a future with both wife and concubines by his side!

"Sister Mo, you didn’t agree, did you?!" Lin Yuan was so anxious she stood up; if Mo Sanniang really agreed, then she wouldn’t be worth her sincere effort to help.

Knowing she had been deceived once yet still willing to await a second time, such a foolish woman wouldn’t climb ashore no matter how much Lin Yuan tried to pull her up.

Seeing her agitated state, Mo Sanniang couldn’t help but laugh, and hurriedly pulled her back into the chair, chuckling, "You silly girl, why are you more anxious than I am? Don’t worry, even if I, Mo Sanniang, am humble, I would never consent to being someone’s concubine."

Although Mo Sanniang couldn’t say she came from a prestigious family, she was pampered and raised in the palm of her parents’ hands from a young age, and on top of that, she was the youngest daughter.

Even if she were deluded enough to want to be a concubine, her parents and elder sister would never agree!

"However, I really didn’t expect him to make such a request. I, Mo Sanniang, never wronged him, and even when his mother was so difficult with me, I never showed her an angry face. Even knowing he had a wife, I was very sad, but I never thought about clinging to him forever, monopolizing him."

"Being able to see him for one last time today, I am already content. To leave each other with a beautiful memory, isn’t that good? What I didn’t expect was for him to be so shameless! I, I just... Sister, tell me, were all my years of feelings really misplaced?"

Of course they were, Lin Yuan really wanted to nod, but seeing Mo Sanniang’s tormented and conflicted appearance, she said gently and diplomatically, "Sister, it’s better if you let go. It’s truly not worth it to be heartbroken over such a man."

But why did Lin Yuan feel the need to chase after him when Xie Zhiyuan left?

"I also know it’s not worth it, I just hope he doesn’t come to bother me anymore.

" Mo Sanniang looked around the store and smiled faintly.

"I was planning to give him back the Silver and cut off all ties with him.

The nerve of him, tossing the Silver on the counter, not giving me a second glance, and then boldly promising that he will definitely let me enter his household.

How vile, who does he think he is, assuming I am so eager to become his concubine? "