Chapter 349 — Marriage Falls Through, Goodwill Remains

"Yes," Fang Tian nodded. "You must go. The woman's side will go too. The two of you meet, sit down and have a talk—even if you can't be together, you can make friends, and it'll be easier to get along when you meet in the future. Outwardly it will be said that the two of you simply didn't hit it off, and that's why the engagement was dissolved—not that one side proposed breaking it off. That way everyone saves face, and no one has anything to say." "So troublesome..." Yang Xutang broke into a sweat, though he had to admit Fang Tian's was the most thorough approach—offending no one, giving no one cause for gossip.

Otherwise, if either side directly proposed breaking the engagement to the other, where would the other's face be? Wouldn't they be shamed at once? How would they ever show their face in public again?

That way, the two families would turn from in-laws straight into enemies—something Fang Tian and the other family absolutely could not allow. So even to break the engagement, face had to be saved in full, so that outsiders would think it wasn't the parents' fault, but simply that the children's temperaments didn't agree, and there was no help for it but to part peacefully. "Early next month—do you have time to make the trip with me?" Fang Tian asked.

"After all that, could I not go?" Yang Jincong laughed. "It has to be settled sooner or later, so I may as well make the trip. The sooner it's settled, the sooner my mind's at ease—otherwise I'll keep fretting over it." "Then it's settled. Get ready; we'll go together when the time comes," Fang Tian said. "How are we going? Not smuggling ourselves in again, I hope?" Yang Ce asked worriedly. Smuggling... was too miserable. "By plane," Fang Tian said. "We're not going to kill anyone—we're going to break an engagement. No law forbids that."

Yang Ce shrugged. Dealing with this old man was always such a chore—every other sentence was about killing or corpses. Truly... hard to communicate with.