Chapter 187 — Again (Requesting Pink Tickets)
Purple Streets of Chang'an · Page 4 of 4
A flicker of fear passed through Dou Yan's eyes, and then, as though to cover it over, she grew all the more imperious: "Do not forget that you are to be married soon. If your stepmother is divorced on your account, you will be just as shamed. Then we shall see whether the Wei family still acknowledges you as a daughter-in-law."
A marriage alliance is made to join two families in amity. At the Dou family's level, divorcing a wife was out of the question; in the end, she would merely be shut away in a nunnery.
Dou Yan did not believe a word of what Dou Ming said, but she went all the same to see the Second Matriarch and told her everything Dou Ming had said, one and all, then said with an air of injury, "I have been here only a few days; I do not even know which way the gate of the Yunqi Temple alley faces, and yet this matter has been laid at my door. I am not willing to bear such injustice. Will you send someone to escort me back to Zhending? I will simply be married from there."
"A little miss like you, talking of 'marrying' this and 'marrying' that," the Second Matriarch scolded her fondly. "This is a matter for your elders to decide. A little miss like you must never say such things again."
Dou Yan answered in a small voice.
The Second Matriarch summoned Dou Ming.
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Sisters, brothers, here is the supplement to the May 3rd update.
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ps: I have lost track of how many debts I owe... it seems I shall have to go back and study arithmetic again...