Daughter of Stonemason Xu, Tears Streaming Down Her Face

Daughter of Stonemason Xu felt deeply wronged.

Ever since the wedding procession had been wiped out and Golden Silk White Jade destroyed by Chu Qing, she had fled to the Gongyang Family in disgrace. Life had not been easy since then.

The Gongyang Family had first suspected that she had joined hands with Chu Qing, using a sleight-of-hand trick to embezzle Golden Silk White Jade.

Later, they had suspected that Daughter of Stonemason Xu had an improper relationship with Chu Qing.

Daughter of Stonemason Xu endured all of it.

She knew that she was the bond joining the two Lineages through marriage.

One of the bonds holding the alliance between the two Lineages together.

Though she was dissatisfied with many things, she could only endure them.

But when even her husband-to-be began suspecting that she had been involved with Chu Qing, she finally exploded.

"Your mother was born into a Top Aristocratic Family!"

"Though I'm getting on in years, I've always kept myself pure and have never been intimate with any man!"

"I can accept other people misunderstanding me, but you too?"

"You think I'd take a fancy to that country mud-leg?"

"I feel sick just from that country mud-leg looking at me!"

"Let alone letting him touch me!"

"You... you're slandering me!"

Daughter of Stonemason Xu wanted to convince her future husband.

But he dismissed her with utter contempt.

In the end, the Gongyang Family even proposed that, since she had come into contact with Chu Qing, the wedding should be kept low-key—they would marry her according to the standards for taking a concubine.

At that moment, Daughter of Stonemason Xu broke down.

The pride instilled in her by a Top Aristocratic Family made it impossible for her to accept.

She did not even discuss it with the Xu