Was It So Great to Marry a Lame Man?

Qin Xin had never imagined in her life that one day she would attend her own funeral.

Several parasol trees concealed her petite figure from view, while still allowing her to see clearly what was happening in the "mourning hall" on the other side of the garden.

Beneath the simple white funeral banners, Aunt Cui, the old servant, supported the sobbing Madam Qin beside the copper-plated coffin.

Right behind them stood her younger brother, Qin Xiaoshuang, who had only just started high school.

Qin Wenrou stood a little farther away, on the lawn where several pots of orchids had been set out. As she talked to someone on her phone, she pinched off the tiny buds that had just sprouted in one of the pots.

The four or five scattered figures added to the desolation of the empty garden.

Madam Qin kept crying.

Qin Xiaoshuang pressed his lips tightly together, saying nothing, his fists clenched tight.

At last, Aunt Cui reminded her, "Madam, it's time to close the coffin and send it to the funeral home for burial..."

Closing the coffin meant the funeral was over.

It marked the moment when someone officially said goodbye to this world, when her soul left this home for good and all ties to the mortal world were severed.

Madam Qin nodded through her tears.

Aunt Cui then called for the servants to move the coffin lid.

Just as the lid was about to close—

Suddenly!

A hand pressed down on it!

"My sister isn't dead! Get away from her!"

Qin Xiaoshuang glared, his eyes bloodshot but dry, and stopped the servants from closing the coffin.

Qin Wenrou, who had been on the phone, turned around. "What are you making a fuss about, Xiaoshuang? Don't be childish."

Qin Xiaoshuang raised his voice. "I told you, my sister isn't dead! The coffin is empty, and you haven't even found her body. What makes you so sure she's dead? Why are you in such a hurry to send her to the cemetery?"

Qin Wenrou's lips moved. Her voice was gentle. "Xiaoshuang, I know it's hard for you to accept reality. But she really is gone. That day, she wouldn't listen to her classmates and insisted on going skating alone. Then she fell into the lake by accident. The rescue team searched the lake for three days and only found her clothes. You have to understand, it was an ice lake at forty-five degrees below zero. Nobody could have survived. Her body..."

She paused, then continued in a firm, stern voice, "Her body was long ago eaten by schools of fish, which is why they couldn't find it. The rescue team has already issued a death certificate. What are you still arguing about? Do you really want them to dredge up every scrap of her remains before you'll be satisfied?"

Every word of the accusation reached Qin Xin clearly.

She went skating against everyone's advice?

That day, Qin Wenrou had secretly gone skating and gotten into an accident. Qin Xin had rushed to save her, only to fall into the trap Qin Wenrou had carefully laid, completely unprepared!

Every scrap of her remains?

So this was the ending Qin Wenrou had planned for her—worse than a plate of leftovers.

Heh.

Qin Xin's gaze was ice-cold, utterly devoid of warmth.

The lawn beneath her feet seemed to share her overwhelming grief and fury. In an instant, it rustled and whipped in the wind, shielding her on all sides. Each blade of grass seemed like a sharp sword, pointing toward Qin Wenrou!

After hearing Qin Wenrou's explanation, Qin Xiaoshuang didn't calm down. He became even more agitated, wrapping his arms tightly around the coffin and refusing to let anyone touch it. "My sister isn't dead! I believe she's still alive! Mom, say something! Do you think Big Sis is dead too?"

Madam Qin was timid by nature. Faced with her two children arguing, she didn't know whose side to take. After freezing for a long moment, she covered her face and wept. "Xin'er, you were so young. You should have been married by now. I'd already arranged your marriage, and Mr. Nalan was preparing to send the betrothal gifts. Why did you have to leave us..."

Qin Xin, standing not far away, shuddered.

What?

When had she ever agreed to get married?

Married to some Mr. Nalan?

How had she not known?