Ye Xinyan took advantage of Mrs. Qin's distraction to give Jiang Yifan a fierce glare before lowering her eyelids and standing up. She composed herself and curtsied to Mrs. Qin, saying, "Although people often say it takes two hands to clap, the truth is that the fault in my previous interactions with the Eldest Son was mostly mine. Even if the Eldest Son was at fault, his mistakes were but a tenth or a twentieth of mine."
Jiang Yifan had initially been tickled by Ye Xinyan's fierce look, savoring the feeling that she was no longer distant but seemed to show some intimacy towards him. Then he heard Ye Xinyan's words and couldn't help but be startled, quickly followed by a touch of heartache.
It had been he who had insisted on asking Ah Yan to marry him, but it was his mother who had brought her here to ask, causing her such humiliation.
