"Only after the pearl had secretly formed did the marriage come to fruition."
"Doesn't this make all the young misses feel as if it's okay to willingly degrade themselves?" Ye Muyu's brows furrowed lightly. "If the scholar had some abilities, then fine, but after getting married, he still relies on the young miss's dowry for a living."
"In the books, it ends with the scholar becoming the first place in the examination, to everyone's joy, but what if, in reality, the scholar doesn't succeed?"
"Such matters are a question of mutual consent. If you don't choose wisely, even if the other party isn't a poor scholar, whatever is bound to happen will still happen," Chu Heng said, looking directly at the essence of the issue as if it was second nature to him.
