[Thank goodness you two got together. Otherwise, who knows what would have become of me, Wanwan?]
Liu Wan smiled faintly and said to Xie Jinqian, "Then do you still intend to tear us apart?"
"Sister-in-law, he isn't worth your devotion. He doesn't love you."
Xie Jinqian panicked.
He feared that if his sister-in-law married Xia Siheng, she would be just as unhappy as she had been with Xie Jin'an.
To truly love someone was to protect her with care, to safeguard her reputation and everything she cherished.
Not to defile his sister-in-law in front of him.
Xia Siheng was utterly shameless.
"He does!" Liu Wan's gaze was resolute.
"If he loved you, he would have asked for your hand long ago. You would never have married into the Xie family."
"The year I reached marriageable age, my aunt passed away. Her funeral had barely ended when your Xie family beat him to the punch. You were the ones who schemed against me!" Liu Wan said coolly.
Shame engulfed Xie Jinqian, making even breathing difficult.
Yes, it was their Xie family that had schemed against her.
His eldest brother had been promised to Xu Rourou since childhood, but when the Marquis's Residence fell on hard times, his eldest brother, as the eldest legitimate son, had no choice but to seek Liu Wan's hand.
If his eldest brother had adamantly refused back then, the duty would have fallen to him.
Then the Xie family would never have ended up where it was today.
The fault lay in his eldest brother's wavering heart, not in Xia Siheng!
Once he understood this, the light in Xie Jinqian's eyes dimmed.
Yet if his eldest brother had not married his sister-in-law, perhaps he would have died at the bottom of that icy lake.
He clenched his