"The daughter of the Tao family in the imperial capital is Tao Jingying. Her arranged marriage partner is Lu Huai from the Lu family in the imperial capital."
"The Lu family? The one in the antique business?" Lin Yao raised his eyebrows. He had always remembered this. If it was really this Lu family, then this marriage must be disrupted.
"Yes." Lin Chenghui was a bit surprised that Lin Yao knew about the Lu family. After all, Lin Yao's business didn't involve antiques. His business mainly focused on finance and the real - estate industry. There was no way for him to have any business dealings with the Lu family, and they were far away in the imperial capital. It was really strange.
"Get up. I'll help you with this. We're all family. If you just want to marry a wife, as your uncle, I'll surely give my full support. Since the other family still wants this arranged marriage despite their daughter's strong resistance, they must not be a family that cares about their younger generation. It's easy to disrupt such an arranged marriage. All we need to do is offer them greater benefits. However, you have to handle the matter of connecting with their family and arranging for them to meet me by yourself."
Wasn't this just a case of running into an enemy? By cutting off the Lu family's way out in the arranged marriage, he could also help his nephew. It was a win - win situation. Why not do it?
Lin Yao had been worried about not having a proper reason to deal with the Lu family. If they resisted fiercely, he could just use the excuse of disrupting the marriage to suppress them.
"Thank you, Uncle Four! Thank you, Uncle Four!"
With Lin Yao's approval, Lin Chenghui was almost moved to tears. He never thought that Lin Yao's reason for agreeing was to take revenge. But even if he knew, it didn't matter. No matter the reason, he was being helped, and he was the one benefiting. There was nothing to complain about.
"Get up. Your Uncle Four has already agreed. Why are you still kneeling?"
Grandma Lin tapped the ground twice with her walking stick. Taking the hint, Lin Chenghui got up from the ground. He flattered Grandma Lin by massaging her shoulders and saying all kinds of nice things.
Actually, having Lin Chenghui "tried" here by the family wasn't really to blame him. The main purpose was to see if this young man was just being impulsive or if he really liked that girl. Divorce was not something the Lin family approved of. Once you chose someone, it was for a lifetime. Unstable feelings wouldn't do.
When Grandma Lin heard that the girl Lin Chenghui liked was engaged, she was very angry at first. But later, when she found out that this engagement was decided by the parents of both families without consulting their children, she thought her grandson had done the right thing.
Just as her grandson had said, this was the modern era. Arranged marriages were out of date.
Grandma Lin herself had eloped with Grandpa Lin. They had been happily married for most of their lives, and she scoffed at arranged marriages.
"Alright, stop flattering me. It's your Uncle Four who's going to help you. If you want to flatter someone, go to him. You're in your twenties. Act more maturely. I'm a bit tired. I'm going upstairs. Lin Yao, come with me."
Grandma Lin slowly got up from the sofa and went upstairs. Hearing the call, Lin Yao followed. In the study, Grandma Lin got straight to the point. "Did the Lu family do something to you?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Don't pretend you don't know, son. You kids are all flesh and blood of mine. A mother and child are connected. As soon as you make a decision, I know what you're going to say and do. If the Lu family hadn't offended you, you definitely wouldn't have agreed to Chenghui so readily. Tell me, what exactly did the Lu family do to you?"
Seeing that his mother had already said so much, there was no point in hiding it anymore. Lin Yao told her all about the crisis that Wei Ziqi and Miaomiao had encountered before and the schemes of the Lu family behind it.
However, Lin Yao didn't mention that the Lu family had wanted to kill Miaomiao. He just changed the concept and said that Miaomiao had disrupted their plan and they wanted to take revenge.
Hearing what the Lu family had done, which was so heartless and that they had even attempted to kill her granddaughter, Grandma Lin was the first to get angry.
"What!? The Lu family really thinks that just because our Lin family is not in the imperial capital and it's far away, there's no one to protect Miaomiao? Kids raised in such a family probably won't be any good. I'm sure our Chenghui has good taste. That girl must be a good one. It would be a pity if she married into such a family. This marriage must be disrupted. We can't let them succeed no matter what. We're just doing the right thing. Oh, Four, can you also deal with the Lu family's business?"
Grandma Lin implicitly expressed her attitude of wanting Lin Yao to take tough measures against the Lu family.
A mother knows her son best, and a son also knows his mother well.
Lin Yao immediately understood what his mother meant. He smiled meaningfully. Then, the two nodded in agreement tacitly.
"Hello? Xiaoying, I've always had a secret that I haven't told you. My family is not an ordinary working - class family. My dad is a judge, my mom is a forensic doctor, and my second uncle is the chief of the police station. But that's not the most important part. The most important thing is my Uncle Four. His name is Lin Yao. You know my family lives in Nancheng..."
Miaomiao sat beside Lin Chenghui with big, curious eyes, watching her eldest cousin stutter while on the phone.
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. Then Miaomiao heard a loud roar.
"Lin Chenghui! Are you crazy! You never told me such an important thing! If my family hadn't arranged this marriage for me, would you have kept it a secret forever? Were you going to keep pretending to be a poor guy? Were you afraid that I liked you for your money, not for you!?"
It seemed that the big sister on the other end was very angry. Her voice was almost hoarse.
Miaomiao pricked up her ears and listened intently. She heard her eldest cousin explain in a very soft voice, "No, I really didn't mean that. I didn't mean to hide it from you. I told you from the beginning that my parents were public servants. I just didn't tell you their specific positions. Besides, my Uncle Four's wealth isn't mine. There's no need to show off my Uncle Four. So I didn't mention it. It's because your family forced you into this. I came back to ask for help. I knelt for a long time before I got the approval of the whole family. And my Uncle Four has already agreed to help me talk to your family. This engagement will definitely be cancelled smoothly."
"Ah? You knelt for so long because of this... Do they not like me because my family has too many problems? Don't they want me to marry into your family?"
The girl's way of thinking was really strange. She didn't catch the main point of Lin Chenghui's long explanation at all.
"No, our family is very easy - going. They just thought I was a home - wrecker at first, so they made me kneel. But it has nothing to do with you. They have no opinion of you at all. And I've already explained it clearly..."
"That's good. Ah! Baby, I feel so bad for you after you knelt for so long!"
Hearing this, Miaomiao felt like her soul had left her body. The rest was just her eldest cousin and his girlfriend showing their affection.
Miaomiao felt uncomfortable for no reason.
For the first time in her life, she experienced the sorrows of a single dog.