Qingmu sighed and said with a small laugh, "I'm not angry, just... a little bummed out. I can't quite explain it. You know, I hadn't even thought about it before. I didn't want to agree yesterday, but Mom said that if I don't even consider a good match and just stubbornly insist on waiting a few years to marry, I might miss the boat. I thought she had a point, so I came up with a plan. I said if her family could afford to wait, we could get engaged. But who would've thought it would end like this."
Juhua said, "It's all Gou Dan's mother's fault for misreading her own daughter's heart. She thought Meizi liked you, so she rushed to ask Grandma Huang to come over. It's no big deal. We're about to build a house, and our family's fortunes are looking up. Plus, you're more educated than you were before. With prospects like these, you'll only have more and more marriage proposals coming to our door. You just need to keep your eyes peeled for the right wife."
