to behave in the presence of handsome men. Her sister disgusted her with her brazenness

ack of a suddenly halted dark figure by accident. Distracted with her own thoughts and foolishly clumsy

n she collided with. An apology on her lips as heat overtook her face and sheer shame washed over

, and upon lifting her chin was met with the icy cold snarl of her victim. He was turned

which somehow enhanced his masculinity, she stopped breathing. It felt like the world stopped turning completel

strong form, scratching at forgotten interludes. Something about him pulled back the night of the

about. His eyes eating through to her soul, under straight dark brows, that had once captured her across a dancefloor in the same way. That jawline that weakened her knees and made her almost sway in reaction

words made her blink back in shock. The unfriendly command piercing her heart, bumping her back

listen, and it only seemed to pull an angrier expression from him. Turn

to remove herself and hurry to a nearby seat. Unable to continue to look him in the

a comfy place to sit, and the older man of the three, leaned in with a smile. Looking like a king amon

built a formidable empire. Lei family was honored to become a connection in this way, so it was no surprise her father jumped a

two families, and bring Leng and Lei under one roof. It is good that we were swift to agree and come to this outcome." The older man, with his greying hair and long distinguished beard, eyes twinkling under thic

ap, blushing fiercely and unable to ignore YuZhi's dislike of her. He wasn't happy about this arrangement at all, and he seemingly had already

id. Maybe he had just toyed with her that night, and he didn't want to be bothered by her in this way. TangShi w

ss with her feelings. As though talking about the weather. This was the first she was hearing the details of what was expected of her, as he refused to discuss anything when s

Only the servants had ever shown her any kind of compassion in the past and even now, most of them had been replaced over the years and she was mostly ignor

My grandson is twenty-six, he is not going to be young forever." The old man threw a disinterested look over Juefeng, then TangShi, sitting quietly off to one side, appraising her and nodded with satisfaction. He seemed to like the overall presentation of herself enough to not refuse or mention her simple attire. Although he did gaze b

hrough, surprising her and she felt herself sliding her eyes back to YuZhi

foolish heart. What really was

e it obvious she was falling into a glum depression as she listened without having any control over her own life. She stayed still, held herself upright and i

and then later a wedding will appease the netziens who follow my grandson's fame. I don't want to delay." The grandfather had made his mind up and it see

andchildren were mostly female and had failed to produce any children recently. Old man was getting on in years and wanted the joy of great grandchil

rict timeline. It seemed Grandfather Leng had found that Miss Cheng was not worthy of a union with his grandson for his first-born child, who would be se

other gentleman was more on the age line of grandfather which confused her, and she wondered if his father had been late in life when he h