Another Younger Sister After My Sister! I Can't Take It!

"No!"

At this critical moment, Su Bai immediately raised a hand to stop the old man's furious actions and hurriedly said with a hint of panic, "Grandpa, most importantly, this is a new era—the twenty-first century. How can we still be doing this whole betrothal-before-birth nonsense?"

"Besides, your granddaughter just turned eighteen, and you're already preparing to marry her off? Using your sister's happiness to fulfill your oath is utterly absurd. I believe that if the old master of the Xiao Household were still alive, he definitely wouldn't agree!"

"When the old master of the Xiao Household made this marriage arrangement, he surely hoped the two families would join forces and become stronger together, not drag each other down in the end. He certainly wouldn't want the Xiao Household to become dead weight between the two families!"

With his hands over his head, Su Bai crouched halfway down and blurted everything out at the fastest speed of his life. Yet after waiting for a long while, he realized the dragon-headed cane he had imagined never came down, and he felt no pain anywhere on his body.

Su Bai slowly opened his eyes and stood up. He found the old man frowning deeply, his expression grave, both hands tightly gripping the dragon-headed cane as though he had fallen into a dilemma.

This marriage arrangement was indeed, as Su Bai had said, extremely unreasonable. Not only did it harm the Su Household's interests, it also treated the younger generation as tools.

Was an oath from back then truly worth all this?!

After hearing Su Bai's words, everyone in the Su Household also felt that this marriage arrangement was terribly mismatched, not to mention that the Xiao Household had shown no courtesy at all over the years.

They clearly knew of the engagement, yet they had never once come to call or offer greetings, as if they had simply ignored it. Was the Su Household supposed to beg the Xiao Household for an alliance by marriage?

Ridiculous!

Seeing the old man standing there in hesitation, Su Bai quickly stepped forward and added, his tone much gentler this time, "Grandpa, I know what you're worried about. You just feel that you'd be letting down the old master of the Xiao Household."

"But I have a solution. Look at the Xiao Household now—they've declined and are growing weaker by the day. But our Su Household has money. We can invest in Xiao Fan, help the Xiao Household rise again, and preserve their position among Suzhou's Four Great Families!"

"That way, the debt of gratitude will be repaid. It'll benefit our Su Household and the Xiao Household alike. When the time comes, Old Master Xiao can rest in peace with a smile. It's killing two birds with one stone!"

After saying that, Su Bai directly helped the gloomy, frowning, silent old man over to the sofa. Secretly, he was overjoyed.

Xiao Fan was definitely the protagonist of some broken-engagement story. Once the engagement was called off, his luck would soar beyond all control. If I invest in him now, I'll have Xiao Fan firmly in my grasp.

He makes money, and I make even more. Wouldn't that be wonderful?!

In an instant, Su Bai seemed to see a bright future ahead. Once Xiao Fan accepted his investment, that brat would no longer be worth fearing.

"Sigh!"

Finally, after a while, the old man wore a complicated expression and helplessly shook his head with a sigh. His face was full of exhaustion, and he closed his eyes tightly, as though he did not want to see Su Bai, this unfilial grandson.

Yet in his heart, he had already agreed with Su Bai's idea.

After all, the Su Household was what mattered most. His old friend was already gone. Though he would be breaking the agreement, helping the Xiao Household stabilize its position was not impossible. Presumably, his old friend would not blame him for it.

Still, he remained dissatisfied, feeling that his old face had been thoroughly humiliated.

Old Master Su suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp anger in his gaze. He fiercely kicked Su Bai in the butt, sending him sprawling onto the floor, then snorted coldly. "Since you brought this up, then you go handle it!"

"If you screw it up, you can bear the consequences yourselves!"

After saying that, he immediately waved a hand, took the arm of his son Su Yue, and headed back to the bedroom to rest.

Su Bai did not mind in the slightest. Instead, he waved his hand as though accepting an order and happily replied, "Got it, Grandpa!" Then he shot Su Ruoxue a look as if to say, Your brother's amazing, right?!

When Su Bai gave her that smug look, Su Ruoxue did not know what to say. Everything happening before her had caught her completely off guard.

Since when had Su Bai possessed such ability?

A trace of disbelief flashed through her eyes, but when she remembered that Su Bai had done her a huge favor, she quickly revealed a gentle smile and nodded at him.

Seeing that the old man had simply washed his hands of the matter and left, the people present realized that Su Bai had truly managed to persuade him.

For a moment, everyone exchanged complicated looks. They had thought they would get to watch a joke, but never could they have expected that even this playboy would one day possess such a silver tongue...

But since the old man had already decided to leave everything to Su Bai, they no longer lingered to watch the excitement. One by one, they left, leaving only Su Bai and Su Ruoxue behind. The atmosphere became rather awkward.

After all, the two siblings were not actually very close.

But Su Bai did not care about that. Right now, nothing was more important than humiliating the protagonist and obtaining system rewards. After all, life in this dangerous world was uncertain.

"Come on, follow your brother!" With a wave of his hand, Su Bai prepared to take Su Ruoxue to the Xiao Household and begin the process of calling off the engagement.

"Huh?"

"Where are we going?"

Even Su Ruoxue, who always maintained an icy, calm expression, froze upon hearing that. Her face was full of confusion. Where were they going?

"To call off the engagement! What are you standing around for?" Su Bai spread his hands and replied casually. Right now, his motto was to strike while the iron was hot...

"Isn't this way too fast?!"

Su Ruoxue's mouth fell slightly open, her mind a complete mess. Everything had developed too suddenly, and she could not react at all.

"Time waits for no one!"

Su Bai shrugged, tossed out those words, and strode toward the garage.

Seeing this, Su Ruoxue nodded helplessly. She could only click after him in her high heels, her black stockings swaying as she quickened her pace and accepted it all. After all, the old man had said that Su Bai would handle everything.

Still, ending it sooner was not bad. It would save them endless trouble later. She had thought that when she brought up calling off the engagement today, her grandfather would firmly oppose it.

That was why she had prepared a backup plan. Never did she expect Su Bai to settle it so easily.

"Alright, but we need to bring someone else—my senior sister. She's waiting outside the estate right now," Su Ruoxue said from behind Su Bai as they walked.

Senior sister?

In an instant, Su Bai was dumbfounded. What kind of character was this now? And no one had told him that his sister even had a master.

As expected of a female lead. Even if she was merely the unfortunate female lead in a broken-engagement story, she was still a female lead!

"Who is your master?"

Su Bai lowered his gaze and asked quietly. Su Ruoxue's calm, iceberg-like face remained expressionless as she said, "Jiangnan's Sacred Physician, White Immortal Aunt!"

Who was that?

Just as Su Bai was confused, he narrowed his eyes and suddenly remembered. Wasn't she the divine doctor known as the Immortal Aunt, whose single consultation cost a fortune?

Damn!

No wonder his sister was confident about calling off the engagement. There was a major figure backing her up!