Chen Wanqing was over eighteen and still unmarried.
One day, her grandmother arrived at her door, demanding that the marriage the family had painstakingly arranged for her be given to her younger cousin, and her cousin’s fiancé be given to her instead.
Swapping marriages between cousins—if word got out, people would laugh themselves silly.
Chen Wanqing adamantly refused!
Her younger cousin burst in, exasperated: “In your previous life, you took the long way around for half your life before finally choosing him. Now I’m letting the two of you be together ten years early, so what are you hesitating for!”
Chen Wanqing: “!”
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