Crack!
Those words struck Xu Weiguang, Xu Weiling, and the old lady like a bolt of lightning to the head.
When she recovered, the old lady suddenly remembered something. Slapping her thigh, she said with bitter regret, "I said back then that we shouldn't let Tiantian play with Jian Mingyue!"
Xu Weiguang clutched what little hair he had left, looking utterly helpless. He remembered too. Tiantian had spent years practically joined at the hip with Jian Shuyue. Perhaps that was what had caused the problem with his daughter's sexual orientation. But then why had Jian Shuyue found herself a boyfriend?
Her aunt, Xu Weiling, looked at her beautiful, alluring niece, whose every movement naturally exuded charm, and thought that whether she was lying to put them off or telling the truth didn't really matter.
What mattered was that, as a child of the Xu family, she had to put the family's interests before her own at critical moments. Xu Weiling didn't care whether her niece liked Gong Shixiong. As long as Gong Shixiong liked her niece, that was enough!
A marriage alliance would further shore up the family's weakness in political power, giving them a greater say. And as the matchmaker, she would reap tangible benefits herself.
"You really said that?" Jian Shuyue stared at her best friend in astonishment and asked in disbelief.
"What else was I supposed to do? They kept pestering me to get married every single day. It was driving me crazy!"
Tian Tian rolled her eyes at Jian Shuyue, then slipped back into full drama-queen mode. She threw herself into her friend's arms with an aggrieved expression and pretended to sob. "You heartless thing, I did all this for you! You'd better treat me well from now on!"
"Don't worry, my sweet little Tiantian.