"I'm not marrying her!"
Gu Jinwen held his neck stiff, his face full of a death-before-surrender defiance. "Her grandfather saved you, not me. If anyone's marrying her, you marry her!"
Bang! Bang-bang!
Gu Litong slammed his cane heavily against the floor, his chest heaving with rage.
"You unfilial wretch!"
Even after cursing him, he still wasn't satisfied. He raised his cane again, intending to smash Gu Jinwen.
Liang Qiushi hurriedly rose to stop him while scolding her younger son.
"You little bastard, how can you talk to your grandfather like that? Hurry up and apologize!"
The moment Gu Jinwen blurted it out, he regretted it. Now that he had been given a way out, he hurriedly lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
Liang Qiushi seized the opportunity to speak for him. "Dad, Jinwen just turned twenty-one. He hasn't even graduated from college yet."
"He only just heard that he was supposed to get married, so he couldn't accept it right away."
"Don't stoop to his level."
"When I was twenty, I was already on the battlefield!" Gu Litong glared at his daughter-in-law, then turned angrily on Gu Jinwen. "If you weren't around Li Wei's age, would such a good thing ever have fallen into your lap? Fine, you're not marrying her, are you?"
With that, he turned away with a huff and looked toward the single-seat sofa on his left.
There, his usually worry-free eldest grandson sat quietly, completely absorbed in his book.
"Jinzhi, if he won't marry her, will you?"
Gu Jinzhi closed the book in his hand and looked at the old man with calm eyes devoid of emotion. "I'm that much older than her. Would she be willing to marry me?"
"It's only five or six years. No matter!" The old man waved his hand grandly.