Upon hearing her husband's words, Qian Mu immediately stood up excitedly.
She exclaimed: "Husband, you know he will choose the former! Doesn't this give them an advantage?!"
Murong's father smiled.
"Mrs. Qian, this may not be the case!"
Murong's father's words seemed to give the answer silently. Ao frowned in dissatisfaction with his arrogant neighbor's sharp eyebrows. No one noticed Xin Lian's reaction when they heard Murong's father's words...
"Then what are you..."
"Yingying! Tell dad what you think! Don't be afraid to say it!"
Murong's father smiled kindly and looked at Qian Xiying as tenderly as water. Compared with the gentleness when he looked at Xin Lian, now he looked more like he was looking at his own daughter.
"Dad...Dad, I...I don't want to...break off the engagement..."
Qian Xiying timidly glanced at Murong's father, and then at Ao. She had done this no less than 10 times. Instead of the pride that Xin Lian knew, she was only weak and timid.
"Even if Ao doesn't like you, he won't fulfill his responsibilities as a fiancé to you!?"
Murong's father asked one more question, and the smile on his face clearly deepened the moment he heard Qian Xiying's answer.
"……Um……"
"Haha, okay then! The engagement will not be terminated, it will continue like this. Half a year! In half a year, it depends on whether you can make Ao really like you before the engagement is terminated. If you can get Ao to say that he likes you personally.
You, then this six-month period will be lifted immediately and become eternity."
"dad!!!"
"Really?"
Two different voices sounded at the same time. The difference was that Ao was full of displeasure, while Qian Xiying was full of surprises.
"Well, of course it's true. Yexing, you shouldn't have any objections, right?"
Murong's father turned his head and cast his gaze on Xin Lian. Although his eyes were as gentle as moonlight, Xin Lian felt the sharpness and affirmation hidden in them. What Murong's father said was not a question, but a firm affirmation.
Xin Lian knew very well that he was not asking for his opinion again, but telling himself.
She smiled naturally and said, "Of course not. I said I would not become a third party, and I keep my word."
Her words and her smile hurt Ao's eyes and ears side by side. His heart also ached. He had clearly heard what Xinlian said when he was in the academy just now. But now...
He clearly felt that Xin Lian was not attached to him, and a bitter loneliness that could not be expressed in words immediately filled the place in his heart.
"Ao, let me go! I want to go upstairs and rest."
Xin Lian's voice sounded above Ao's head, which had fallen into darkness, but her "let go" had another meaning in Ao's heart. Ao simply ignored the last sentence.