Chapter 10 Unbelievable Truth
I looked up at him calmly.
My tone stayed even.
"You heard right. I'll soon marry into the Xu family."
Zhou Linchen frowned.
"Li Xia, the east city project is important, but you don't need to joke about marriage."
At that moment, he still didn't believe me.
I tugged at my lips without any smile in my eyes.
"I'm not joking. Have you forgotten our engagement was already dissolved?"
Zhou Linchen refuted almost immediately, his tone urgent.
"Dissolved? When? I didn't know. Li Xia, wait for me one more year. Next year, I'll definitely draw a good Marriage Lot and marry you grandly."
After hearing, I scoffed.
"You've said that five times. I'm tired of hearing it and done waiting."
Just yesterday.
I met Grandpa.
I told him about dissolving the engagement.
Grandpa didn't agree.
He said I'd waited five years, one more wouldn't hurt, and the Zhou family owed us.
But I refuted him.
My dad lost his life saving Zhou Linchen; the Zhou family owed my family.
How could I sacrifice my lifelong happiness?
That would be such a loss for me!
Zhou Linchen couldn't bear such a debt anyway.
Besides, the person he liked wasn't me.
I refused to be a substitute.
Zhou Linchen saw I wasn't joking.
He mocked.
"Li Xia, this engagement isn't something you can dissolve unilaterally."
I pretended to be surprised.
"The last clause in the Zhou family Ancestral Rule: if no good Marriage Lot in six draws, the engagement can be canceled. You didn't know?"
Zhou Linchen's face turned pale instantly.
He frantically pulled out his phone and called the butler to ask.
It turned out exactly as I said.
He lunged toward me, trying to grab my wrist.
"Li Xia, I really didn't know about that Ancestral Rule."
I stepped back two paces, avoiding his touch.
"Six draws, five were top Marriage Lots, but you changed them all to bad ones.
"If you didn't want to marry me, you could have said so. No need to change lots and waste my time.
"Even less need to treat me as Zhou Qingyan's substitute, delaying my five years of youth."
Zhou Linchen froze.
He didn't expect I knew about the lot changes.
And that he liked Zhou Qingyan.
He wanted to explain but didn't know how.
Finally, he could only say.
"Li Xia, I really want to marry you."