By rights, marrying off a daughter was a private matter.
Outsiders had no right to interfere.
It was best not even to ask about it.
If both parties' parents were dead, and they had no relatives of their own—or only distant relatives—they could completely skip the elders' approval and directly decide on marriage. But if both parties' parents were alive, then theoretically, only the approval of both sets of parents was needed. Whether the man and woman themselves agreed would be hard-pressed to change the outcome.
Therefore, logically speaking,
as long as Qing Qing Cang agreed,
nothing would be a problem.
After all, what might be an extremely difficult hurdle for others was no hurdle at all for Lu Yuan. Qing Yan Jing had let Lu Yuan through with ease while, incidentally, blocking everyone else to the point of desperation.
That was right.
Those others referred to Maha Tian.
Although their Marriage Contract had already been set,
Qing Yan Jing held firmly to her bottom line.
Any normal person would be unwilling to marry a corpse. Likewise, any normal person would not have any ideas about a corpse, or at least, they should not.
Whether Maha Tian was a normal person,
Lu Yuan honestly did not know.
But judging from the Maha Ancient Clan's conduct, as well as its reputation in the outside world, even if Maha Tian was not normal, the Maha Ancient Clan would force him to behave normally. With Qing Yan Jing determined to die rather than marry, the Maha Ancient Clan would never allow this marriage alliance to end in a bloody fashion. Taking a step back, they would rather extend this alliance indefinitely than lose the family's dignity over it.
That was the Maha Ancient Clan.
Rigid to the extreme.
They also regarded the family's