"This..."
At her words, Lady Wang first froze, then instinctively gripped both armrests of her chair. A hint of unease and uncertainty crept into her voice.
"You mean Daiyu... she might not be willing?"
If this had been about another girl in the Jia family, it would have taken only a word. Lady Wang wouldn't have cared whether the girl agreed.
But when it came to Daiyu, no matter how reluctant she was to admit it, she had to concede that Wang Xifeng had a point.
For one thing, Daiyu wasn't a girl of the Jia family. She belonged to the Lin Family and was only staying with her maternal grandmother at the Rongguo Immortal Estate. For another, Daiyu had now placed first in all four rounds of the immortal examinations. In status, she had already begun to slip beyond the Jia family's control.
Even they wouldn't dare speak harshly to her, let alone her husband, Jia Zheng.
And that was only because Daiyu hadn't yet completed the palace examination. In another two years, once she passed and was granted an immortal register and an official appointment, they might have to return her a formal salute whenever they met. That would be no joke!
So she knitted her brows and thought for a long while before speaking again.
"But I see her playing and laughing with Baoyu every day. They bicker now and then, but that's just childish temper. What does it matter?"
"They grew up together, childhood friends who knew each other inside out. Surely they have at least that much affection between them?"
"Why would she refuse?"
After all, although that Lin girl was indeed exceptional—more so than many men, even—Lady Wang didn't think her son Baoyu was necessarily unworthy of her.
"Exactly!"
Grandmother Jia, sitting beside her,