City A.
Ye Family Residence.
Ye Fanxing, clothed in a white wedding dress, sits on a red bridal bed, waiting for her groom.
The door to the bridal chamber opened. Ye Liuqing walked in.
"Brother," Ye Fanxing questioned with a smile, "Why aren't you downstairs greeting the guests? What are you doing up here?"
Ye Liuqing glanced at the others in the room, saying, "You all, step outside for a moment."
Upon hearing this, everyone exited the chamber, leaving only Ye Liuqing and Ye Fanxing alone.
"Brother, is something wrong?" Ye Fanxing eyed her brother. His demeanor made her slightly uneasy. Surely something hadn't happened, had it?
But today was her wedding day, a day of great celebration for a marriage alliance between the Ye family and the Shi family. What could possibly go wrong?
Ye Liuqing looked at Ye Fanxing, saying, "There are two pieces of news - good news and bad news. Which would you prefer to hear first?"
Ye Fanxing: "……!!!"
On her joyous wedding day, there was actually bad news?
"…The bad news," Ye Fanxing replied.
Ye Liuqing looked at her evenly, announcing, "Shi Guang has run away."
"What?!!!” Ye Fanxing was so shocked she almost sprung off the bed. Runaway bridegroom? On her joyous wedding day, the groom had run off?
"What... what can she do?"
Ye Fanxing was in a state of extreme anxiety. It wasn't that she cared much for Shiguang, but rather, Shiguang had fled from their wedding, leaving her alone. How was she supposed to handle the aftermath?
"What's your rush?" Ye Liuying looked at Ye Fanxing and asked with a smile.
In return, Ye Fanxing glared at him, "Of course you're not anxious. You're not the one being jilted at the altar."
She could surely manage to stay as calm as her brother if she were not the one being left at the altar. In fact, she might even be able to enjoy a good laugh at that.
Ye Liuying teased her nonchalantly, "Isn't there some good news too?"
Ye Fanxing, taken aback, looked at him, cautiously probing," ...Brother, the good news can't possibly be that Shiguang was caught and brought back, right?"
To her, that definitely wasn't good news, was it?
What did Shiguang take her for?
Proposing to her when he wanted to marry, and fleeing when he didn't want to?
Now, intending to marry again, so he comes swarming back?
How could there possibly be such good things in this world?
"No." Ye Liuying said.
Ye Fanxing heaved a sigh of relief, then asked again, "So what's the good news?"
Could it be that the Ye family and Shi family have decided to cancel the wedding?
"Shi family has decided that Shi Yun Chi will replace Shi Guang, fulfilling the marriage contract with you," Ye Liu Qing said with a smile.
"……!!!"
Shi Yun Chi?
Shi Guang's junior uncle?
The Shi family's old man's late child?
"Elder brother… are you sure this is good news for me?" Ye Fan Xin said, giving Ye Liu Qing a resentful look.
Doesn't her elder brother know that she and Shi Yun Chi are sworn enemies?
Ye Liu Qing said with a smile, "Why wouldn't it be? Though Shi Guang fled from the wedding, the marriage alliance between Shi family and Ye family must continue. Shi Yun Chi marrying you, maintaining the interests of both families. For you and for Ye family, it's all good news."
"I refuse, I don't want Shi Yun Chi. I want someone else," Ye Fan Xin said.
She was not about to create unpleasantness for herself.
Ye Liu Qing laughed dismissively and gave her a look, "Do you think you’re shopping at a club picking models? If this one doesn't work, pick another? Who would you change him for? With Shi Guang absent, aside from Shi Yun Chi the Shi family only has the underage Shi Nan remaining."
Ye Fan Xin nodded and said, "Shi Nan is fine."
Although he's underage, he's still a handsome 17-year-old guy. She's okay with that, she doesn't mind.
Ye Liu Qing laughed and berated, "Sure, you might be okay with it. As long as he's handsome, any guy from the last 5000 years can be your pick, but Shi Nan will not be okay with it. Oh, I forgot to tell you, after Shi Nan heard that Shi Guang ran away, he volunteered to go look for him. I'm guessing... Shi Guang probably figured out he would be the scapegoat, so he also ran away."
Ye Fanxing: “……!!!!”
She’s furious!
The Shi family was downright bullying to an extreme extent!
Was getting married to her, a beauty with fair skin and long legs from a wealthy family, like being made a scapegoat?
Clear as day that it was like a pie falling from the sky, right?
“Therefore…the Shi family currently only has Shi Yunche left, you cannot replace him.” Ye Liuqing said.
Ye Fanxing: “……”
Indeed, it’s like heaven wants to doom her.
“Brother… don’t you understand that Shi Yunche and I are archenemies?” Ye Fanxing questioned.
Ye Liuqing nodded: “I know, but there are no real conflicts between you and Shi Yunche. The reason why you both are archenemies is because you are Shi Guang's fiancee. You stand on the same ground as Shi Guang and compete with Shi Yunche for the power of the Shi family. But, think about it, as long as you marry Shi Yunche, then you and Shi Yunche will be on the same side, and Shi Guang will become your archenemy. What about it? Don’t you want to knock down Shi Guang?”
Ye Fanxing: “……”
She does.
She always has clear likes and dislikes and a hatred for evil. Shi Guang ran away on their wedding day, which was like slapping her beautiful face hard twice.
One should never hit a person's face.
Let alone her face, known as the most beautiful in City A. This insult, she couldn’t swallow that.
“Think about it.” Ye Liuqing continued to instigate Ye Fanxing. “If you really marry Shi Yunche, then you will be Shi Guang's aunt. In the future, if you hit and scold Shi Guang, it'll be seen as disciplining a disobedient junior, and no one will say a word against you.”