Upon hearing that her daughter still wanted to go to Yang Family Village, Li Chuntao’s mother panicked. Was it because she hadn’t given up on Yang Dong?

How could that be allowed? Yang Dong was already engaged, and if her daughter had any entanglements with an engaged man, what would people say? If others knew, they would surely gossip about it.

She quickly advised, "My dear daughter, you shouldn’t go to Yang Family Village. That Yang Dong fellow is already engaged, so stop thinking about him. After a while, I will find you someone better, I promise he’ll be better than Yang Dong."

Li Chuntao knew in her heart that at this moment, her mother would not agree to her going to Yang Family Village again.

The reason she had agreed to let her go before was entirely because Xiaoxiao brought back news that the marriage proposal had fallen through.

She wanted to seize the chance, hoping that Yang Dong might agree to the match after seeing her. She also wanted to know the reason for Yang Dong’s refusal, so her mother reluctantly agreed.

But now, with Yang Dong engaged, her mother would never allow her to be seen as someone who would steal another’s fiancé. Girls can’t be compared to boys; if they did such things, they would be scorned as shameless.

Yet, she was eager to go to Yang Family Village, to figure out what was really going on between Yang Xiaocui and that man.

How should she persuade her mother?

Despite racking her brains, she couldn’t think of a good way. No matter what she said now, her mother would think she was still hung up on Yang Dong. Not only would her mother think this, even she herself felt it so. After all, now that he was engaged, what reason did she have to go to Yang Family Village? She couldn’t find a reasonable excuse.

With no options left, she raised her hand, "Mother, I swear, I will never do anything like stealing someone else’s man. Don’t you know what kind of person your own daughter is?"

In fact, she had explained to her mother many times over the past few days that she no longer wanted to marry Yang Dong or disrupt his engagement, but this was the first time she swore on it.

Seeing how her daughter was acting, Li Chuntao’s mother realized she might have pushed her too hard, leaving her no choice but to swear.

She knew her youngest daughter well, but as a mother, she couldn’t help but nag, afraid her daughter might inadvertently make a mistake. "Then why do you want to go to Yang Family Village?" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Li Chuntao knew she absolutely couldn’t tell her mother her real reason for going—wanting to find out about Yang Xiaocui’s relationship with that man. If she told, her mother would certainly not let her go.

In her anxiety, she made up a quick excuse, "Mother, I just want to see what kind of girl Yang Dong has found."

"Didn’t you say the girl is from their village? You’ve been there for days, why haven’t you seen her?" Chuntao’s mother asked.

When her daughter returned, she had already explained why Yang Dong got engaged so quickly. After hearing it, she felt a bit regretful, as it seemed that Yang Dong, whom her daughter liked, was a good man. After the girl fainted, he rushed to help her and then agreed to marry her to protect her reputation.

Unfortunately, her daughter came back too late. She had missed the chance, and it seemed that fate between her daughter and Yang Dong was not meant to be.

Faced with her mother’s questions, Li Chuntao had no choice but to fabricate a lie, "Those days, I was always with Xiaoxiao. When I heard Yang Dong was engaged, I knew it was over, so I just wandered around with Xiaoxiao, looking at different things. I wasn’t concerned about Yang Dong’s fiancée. But staying home these days, the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to see which girl I lost to."