Madam Tang pushed back thrice over, "This is what your father has decided. If Auntie has objections, we can discuss it once your father returns." With such a mother, this marriage arrangement simply cannot proceed.
Ma Chengteng came back with Ma Peng. Upon hearing that Lady Xiao Ma had returned, he asked her to come to the front courtyard to talk.
Tears in her eyes, Lady Xiao Ma said, "Big Brother, this concerns Yingying's entire life. Big Brother, I beg you, she's my only daughter, and I hope she doesn't have to endure the same hardship I did in her life."
Ma Peng, listening on the side, scoffed coldly. What did she mean by enduring the same hardship as her? The four candidates they had chosen for Loo Ying were carefully selected. Although their family backgrounds were not the same, each came from a good family. Yet, according to the wishes of his younger Aunt, it seemed as if they, father and son, were throwing Loo Ying into a pit of fire.
