latelenovela Chapter 149 What a clever trick to shift the blame!
Chapter 149 What a clever trick to shift the blame!
Although An Qilan and An Yi understood the meaning, they still found it hard to believe that such a thing could exist in the world.
They looked at An Shuhai and his family suspiciously, wondering if it was a prank they had conspired to play on them.
They were eating and hadn't paid special attention to An Ling, so they didn't see for sure whether An Ling had spoken or not.
As if she knew their suspicions, Anling started "speaking" again.
Oh, I thought something was wrong, turns out it's just because of pressure to get married.
[But my uncle is really something. My cousin is only twenty-five and still in school. What's the point of pressuring her?]
My cousin hasn't seen her dad in so long, but my uncle wants to introduce her to potential partners. How could she not be angry?
An Qilan and An Yi stared at An Ling with wide, shocked expressions, their faces filled with disbelief.
Then the mother and daughter looked at each other again to confirm that they were not hallucinating: An Ling really did not open her mouth!
And just as An Shuhai and the others said, An Ling seems to actually know things that she shouldn't know.
When An Yi was still abroad, Cheng Yaozu had messaged her several times, mentioning that he wanted to introduce her to potential partners.
An Yi initially thought her father was just saying it casually, but when Cheng Yaozu actually tried to give her the man's WeChat, she immediately refused. Cheng Yaozu didn't insist after that, so An Yi assumed he had no intention of doing so anymore.
I never expected that Cheng Yaozu would bring up this matter again today, when I had just returned to China and was still on the way from the airport to my home, and wanted to arrange for the two of us to meet.
An Yi was immediately unhappy and said she wouldn't see him.
An Qilan also said that her daughter was still young and there was no need to rush, but Cheng Yaozu still wouldn't give up and insisted that they meet, saying that she would definitely like her once she met her.
The father and daughter couldn't agree on anything, which made the atmosphere so tense.
Moreover, although An Shuhai and Pei Yuning came to pick them up at the airport, An Qilan and An Yi arrived in Cheng Yaozu's car, so An Ling should not have known any of this information.
So, after eliminating all the impossibilities, only one possibility remains: what An Shuhai and the others said is true!
After confirming this, the mother and daughter looked at Cheng Yaozu and found that Cheng Yaozu seemed to be the only one present who could not hear An Ling's thoughts.
As if to confirm this guess, Cheng Yaozu brought up the matter of introducing An Yi to potential partners again.
However, this time he took a roundabout approach. Knowing that An Yi would definitely not agree with his statement, he tried to persuade the other members of the An family to support him.
"Xiao Chong," Cheng Yaozu asked, trying to deflect the question, "will be 27 after the New Year, right?"
An Chong: ...
An Chong: Why am I the first one to suffer bad luck?
"Yes, Uncle."
"Do you have a girlfriend?" Cheng Yaozu continued to ask.
Even though he knew Cheng Yaozu's purpose, An Chong couldn't ignore his elder's question, so he answered truthfully, "Not yet."
"Not yet?" Cheng Yaozu asked again. "Haven't you met anyone you like? Do you want your uncle to keep an eye out for suitable girls and introduce you to some?"
An Chong really didn't want to continue this topic, so he could only reply simply, "No rush."
"What's wrong? Aren't you in a hurry? Look, you're almost 27. Even if you start going on blind dates now and date for another year or two, you'll be 30 when you get married. You still need to hurry up."
“It’s better to take things slowly,” An Chong said calmly. “An Yun did find a girlfriend before, do you think he’s keeping up with her fast enough?”
What a clever tactic of shifting the blame!
An Yun was on the verge of tears: My dear brother, have I offended you in some way? Tell me, and I'll change, okay?
Cheng Yaozu felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. He had, of course, heard about An Yun's girlfriend, and could only awkwardly reply:
"That's a low-probability event, not everyone will encounter it."
He felt that perhaps the younger generation simply couldn't appreciate his good intentions as an elder, so he turned to An Shuhai and said:
"You agree, Shuhai, right? An Chong is your successor, so you and Yu Ning should get married soon so you can have a grandson soon."
After saying that, he didn't give An Shuhai a time to reply and immediately put on the look of an old father worried about his daughter's marriage.
"As parents, what we care about most is our children's lifelong happiness."
"But as her father, I finally met a guy who seemed good in every way, and I thought I'd introduce him to Xiaoyi, but she acted like I was trying to harm her and even talked back to me."
[What a long map of the Yan Kingdom!]
[You just want us to stand on your side and persuade your cousin, why all this roundabout stuff?]
An family member: Indeed.
"Sigh," Cheng Yaozu shook his head and sighed, looking very hurt. "It's true that daughters are beyond their fathers' control once they grow up. Shu Haiyu Ning, you uncles and aunts should also help me persuade the child. He really is a very good boy, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of him as my son-in-law, right?"
“You might already know,” Cheng Yaozu said, taking out his phone and showing everyone a photo. “He’s handsome and tall, and although he’s a model in my company, he’s from the wealthy Cheng family. He’s a good match for Xiao Yi, isn’t he?”
Cheng Yaozu held up his phone for a long time, but no one at the table showed any interest in taking it or even glancing at it, so he could only awkwardly lower his hand again.
"A child from the Cheng family?" An Shuhai thought for a moment and asked doubtfully, "Is the Cheng family the one that's about to form a marriage alliance with the Jiang family?"
[Is he the one who's engaged to Yan Yu's cousin? Doesn't he already have a girlfriend? Is there anyone worth introducing?]
[Besides, what kind of social standing is the Cheng family's son and my cousin in? My cousin is actually marrying down.]
The Jiang family is Yan Yu's mother's maternal family. Although the Cheng family can be considered a wealthy family, they have never been able to squeeze into the core circle of wealthy families in Haicheng. If it weren't for the marriage alliance with the Jiang family, the An family would not even know which Cheng Yaozu was referring to.
Moreover, their marriage wasn't an arranged one. The two were originally senior and junior students who later fell in love freely. If it were simply a matter of finding a marriage partner, the Jiang family wouldn't have chosen the Cheng family.
“I have heard about it,” Pei Yuning also remembered. “Didn’t Xiao Yu say that his cousin is getting engaged to the Cheng family’s son next month? He also said that he would deliver the engagement banquet invitation on behalf of his cousin when he comes in a couple of days. It seems that you’ve been worrying for nothing, brother-in-law.”
“No, no,” Cheng Yaozu quickly denied, “The one who is to be engaged is Cheng Jian, the second son of the Cheng family. The one I’m talking about is Cheng Ze, the eldest son of the Cheng family.”
“But Yan Yu said that the Cheng family is headed by the second son?” An Chong said, frowning.
Yan Yu had mentioned to them that the eldest son of the Cheng family had passed away several years ago, and the current Cheng family was inherited by the second son.
Therefore, Cheng Ze is at most a young master without inheritance rights, let alone a suitable match for An Yi.