"Who are you calling your daughter-in-law?"
De'an, on high alert, threw open the window and yelled, "Mother, what are you doing? Are you trying to set me up with another match? Mother, there's really no rush. A man has to establish his career before starting a family. Just wait until I become a scholar..."
Before De'an could finish, he heard his mother whisper, barely suppressing her excitement, "I'm going to send someone to the Prefectural Magistrate's Office to sound out the Lord Prefect, to see if he'll marry that girl, Kaiyan, into our family."
De'an: "..."
His face flushing crimson, De'an bolted out of his room.
"Mother, my dearest mother, please don't make a mess of things. Just think of their family's standing, and then ours. We're worlds apart! If word of this gets out, everyone will say I'm a toad lusting after a swan."
