She Could Do Nothing Right, Not Even Breathe

Cheng Shaoshang thought her father was being so thoughtful. She wanted to be too stunned to know what Wang Yue had said, to wonder if she'd misheard. She was a young woman whose reputation in Cheng Shi's circle in the Capital City was utterly infamous, and now one of the Twin Stars of the Empire, Wang Yue, was asking for her hand?

Was this really not a dream? Was she really that wonderful?

For a moment, Cheng Shaoshang kept thinking about her good qualities. But after considering them for a long while, she realized that apart from her carpentry skills, there wasn't much she could do better than the other young ladies. That left her rather dejected.

Still, Cheng Shaoshang was an optimist. Through her long years of growing up, she had always managed to find something to be happy about. It was the only way she had found the courage to carry on.

For example, right now she thought there must be some virtue in her that she herself had never noticed, but which Wang Yue had spotted at a glance.

Wang Yue had no idea what Cheng Shaoshang was congratulating herself over. He only remembered that the young woman had a lovely voice, and that she seemed interesting and pretty. Most importantly, she was the girl Ling Buyi had on his mind.

Since Ling Buyi, now bent on revenge, might be the protagonist, this girl was likely the heroine. If Wang Yue let this chance slip by, he had no idea whether the author would be scolded by the readers.

And if the author got angry and pulled a Jin Yong, switching to a different male lead like in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Wang Yue would have nowhere to go and cry about it.

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