Chapter 230: Treated as a third party
Gu Dongxing didn't allow her to back down: "How is it not possible? Just as one observes children from a young age or horses by their hooves, the Ye Family just liked what they saw in me, so they kept me as a backup plan. If I rise in rank, they might propose the marriage arrangement; if I fall, they surely won't bring up this marriage."
Madam Gu was surprised: "Is that so? But it was them who took the initiative—"
Gu Dongxing, word by word, said: "If they also valued this marriage, why have they not contacted us for so many years?
Over these years, wearing the hat of a foreign relation, you've raised my siblings and me, how difficult have our days been?
If they truly cared about me, wouldn't they have been concerned?
You know how well they have lived in the large compounds, as relatives, they sit on high, and just a little help from them could have made our lives easier.
