Chapter 106 Ex-Fiancé

Chapter 106 Ex-Fiancé

Xie Wei pursed his thin lips, his expression clearly showing his disapproval.

Xie Wanniang saw through his thoughts. "Brother Wei, are you trying to say that two fists can't beat four hands? Don't worry, I didn't practice martial arts to become a lone assassin."

She sat back down in her seat, smiling as she looked around. "Actually, I spend most of my time making money. Once I have money, I'll hire a whole bunch of guards. At that point, not only will I be able to protect myself, but I can also turn around and kill them all, eliminating any future troubles."

There is still a problem, after all, they are a prince and his family. Killing them is no different from challenging the imperial authority.

Xie Wanniang would not choose such a risky solution unless absolutely necessary.

A safer and more effective approach than directly targeting that family would be to take the case to the imperial court, thus completely extinguishing the mother and son's desire for her to be recognized as a member of their clan.

Of course, if she chooses this method, she will have to stay put until she finds a way to contact the Emperor, Empress and Crown Prince.

"You..." Xie Wei's feelings were complicated. Today, Xie Wan Niang gave him a sense of familiarity and strangeness. She was familiar with her face, her smile, and her voice, but unfamiliar with her intelligence, calmness, decisiveness, ruthlessness, and...unconventionality.

For the first time in her life, Xie Wei had a strong premonition that "this girl is rebellious and a ruthless character."

Although Xie Wanniang said "I'll turn the tables and kill them, and I'll eliminate any future troubles" with a smile, Xie Wei's intuition told him that if that family angered her, she was really capable of doing such a thing.

Looking at his uncle, who remained calm, Xie Wei thought to himself, "Could it be that my cousin has always been like this? Is it just because I haven't had much contact with her that I haven't been able to see through her appearance to her true nature?"

Unlike Xie Wei, who was feeling uneasy, Xie Daoheng was actually relieved that Xie Wanniang wasn't the kind of person who could be easily manipulated.

He didn't comment on Xie Wanniang's series of remarks, but instead suddenly said, "The one who quickly distanced himself from you got married last winter."

Xie Wanniang asked in surprise, "So fast?"

It wasn't that she had any lingering attachment to "one of the ones who was okay, passable, or acceptable"; she just hadn't expected that, given his family background, he would rush into marriage with a new bride just six months after breaking off their engagement.

When Xie Wei heard Xie Daoheng mention this, his expression became somewhat uncontrollable. At first, he was angry, but his anger quickly turned into schadenfreude.

He told Xie Wanniang, "His house is quite lively now; his mother and his wife are constantly arguing..."

Afraid of being interrupted by Xie Daoheng, Xie Wei spoke rapidly and incessantly.

After hearing what he said, Xie Wanniang realized that her ex-fiancé's father and mother had always had different opinions on his choice of future wife.

His mother's ideal candidate was his cousin from his maternal uncle's family. His maternal grandparents' family had fallen on hard times and had few members left. His mother wanted to further strengthen the bond between her husband's family and her own family so that her husband would not always give her a hard time because she was subsidizing her family.

His father, on the other hand, was single-mindedly looking for someone who could help him. Xie Wanniang was the suitable candidate that his father had carefully selected.

After learning that Xie Wanniang was being forced by her own mother to acknowledge her ancestors and potentially marry into the Xie family, their family immediately chose to dissolve the engagement with the Xie family.

It wasn't that they didn't covet wealth and status, but after weighing the pros and cons, they felt that being a son-in-law of a prince's family meant not only having no real power, but also having to endure a lifetime of humiliation and mistreatment. Most importantly, there was a high chance of being killed along the way. Their predicament was far more difficult than honestly taking the imperial examinations.

As it turned out, their concerns were indeed well-founded. Xie Wanniang hadn't even officially been recognized as a member of the clan yet, and someone whose interests had been infringed upon had already taken decisive action against her.

If it weren't for her own abilities, the grass on her grave would be half a person tall by now.

After quickly breaking off the engagement with the Xie family, they immediately arranged for Xie Wan Niang's former fiancé to marry Yang, who is now his wife.

Yang's father was a Juren (a successful candidate in the imperial examinations) in the previous dynasty. After the new dynasty pacified the country, although he did not continue to try to cross the narrow bridge of the imperial examinations, he still enjoyed all the treatment that a Juren should have in the new dynasty because of his original academic achievements.

In addition, he has a talented son who has already passed the county-level imperial examination at the age of sixteen. Even if he doesn't pass the imperial examination, he can still pass the provincial-level imperial examination.

A scholar waiting to be appointed to a higher position, and a promising young scholar, plus their families were quite wealthy. In a rush, this was the best marriage that Xie Wanniang's former fiancé's father could choose for her.

Fearing further unforeseen circumstances, his father took it upon himself to arrange for him to quickly marry Yang.

Unable to defy her husband, the mother, who therefore found her daughter-in-law extremely displeasing, began her daily struggles to manage her daughter-in-law within the household.

The problem was that Yang was not someone to be trifled with. Her mother-in-law constantly talked about Xie Wanniang, saying that she was inferior to Xie Wanniang in this way and that way. She also always had her niece from her own family appear in front of Yang's husband, clearly trying to ruin her marriage. Yang's already limited respect for her mother-in-law was quickly exhausted.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were constantly at odds, making their family's life miserable. The father and son were also caught in the crossfire and were extremely distressed every day.

This allowed many members of the Xie clan, including Xie Wei, to finally vent their anger.

They weren't being unreasonable, forcing someone to change their situation and become a live-in son-in-law because of Xie Wanniang's circumstances. They were just angry that this family rushed over to kick someone when they were down before things were even settled.

It's just that Xie Wanniang is easygoing and doesn't care much about this marriage. If it were another young girl who wasn't so resilient, she might have been emotionally overwhelmed by her mother and then suddenly had her engagement broken off by her future husband's family. She might have even committed suicide.

After describing the family's chaotic and "exciting" life, Xie Wei concluded, "Just wait and see, their family will have even more trouble in the future."

The benefits that Yang could bring them were limited, unlike Xie Wanniang, who was not only outstanding herself and had a generous dowry, but also had the backing of the Xie family, a powerful and influential clan.

She not only has a great Confucian scholar as her adoptive father, who was a third-place scholar in the previous dynasty, but also a clever cousin who ranked second in the first imperial examination organized by the new dynasty. Whoever marries her will have a VIP ticket to the imperial examination.

Not to mention that, influenced by their family environment, at least six or seven out of ten Xie family members are good at studying. Even if they are not as outstanding as Xie Daoheng and Xie Daoqian, they can still easily make it into the top three and pass the imperial examinations to become a Jinshi or Tongjinshi, or at the very least, a Juren or Xiucai.