"Dad, if you keep this up, I'm really not getting married!"
"Fine by me. If you really don't want to marry, I'll just keep you here at home to be the one in charge. To tell you the truth, I've spoiled you since you were a child. The thought of marrying you off to another family just to see you suffer as a daughter-in-law... I truly can't bear it."
Sheng Saya huffed. "Fine, then I won't get married. When you're gone, if my three older sisters prove unreliable and the fallback plans you've made are useless, I'll have no one to support me. With nowhere else to turn, Lian'er and I will just shave our heads and head for the mountains. One of us will become a Monk, and the other a nun."
Upon hearing this, Sheng Mingchuan erupted into a fit of deafening coughs.
'He was just glad the tea in his cup was gone and the maid hadn't come in to refill it yet. Otherwise, if he'd had a mouthful of tea, he surely would have choked to death right then and there.'
