Pei Zhuoyun glanced at Su Qiao, whose face was full of helplessness, and roughly guessed what was giving her a headache.
"Yulou, why are you so worked up? Didn't you see that Miss Su Man isn't even angry?"
"You're not young anymore. How come you're still so hot-tempered?"
Pei Yulou angrily turned his head away, refusing to look at his mother.
"Brother, did you hear what Mother said? She clearly just doesn't want me to have a good life."
"And what era are we living in now? Her thinking is still so old-fashioned."
Before his mother could speak, Pei Zhuoyun hurriedly said, "Miss Su Man, I apologize to you on my mother's behalf. My mother wasn't in a good mood today and was a little discourteous."
"There's no need."
Su Qiao didn't care in the slightest what Madam Pei thought.
As far as she was concerned, Madam Pei was a stranger. If she really found her unpleasant, she could just find a way to deal with her.
Pei Yulou cautiously walked over to Su Qiao. "Manman, don't be angry. I've already told my father that I want to marry you."
"You refused to live with me because you don't have confidence in me, right? Now that I'm marrying you, will you have a little more confidence in me?"
Madam Pei's face flushed with anger. "I refuse."
"Without my consent, she can forget about entering the Pei Family."
Madam Pei cast a sideways look at Su Qiao, her face twisted with contempt. "Hmph, a mere actress. Forget becoming the principal wife—even being a concubine would be too good for her."
Su Qiao was driven half-mad by this mother-and-son pair, who had completely failed to understand the situation and were full of themselves.
If 444 hadn't still been scanning, she really wanted