On the other side, Zhang Li’s household was buzzing with activity, with the banquet tables spilling from the house out onto the street.
True to his word, Zhang Li had managed to find a girl to marry within a month. She was the type who had already taken a liking to him—a girl he had spotted at the village entrance while wandering around in the past.
He had flirted with her casually, and she had readily agreed to marry him.
Even the matchmaker was stunned; had she known it would be this easy, she wouldn't have bothered going through the trouble of playing matchmaker for him!
In truth, the matchmaker didn't know that ever since Zhang Li had caught a glimpse of Lin Xiaohong, he had been overcome with desire. However, Lin Xiaohong was not the kind of person who would look twice at just anyone, which was why he had had his mother hire a matchmaker.
Now that the two of them had called off their engagement, he had found someone else on the fly to marry—someone far less demanding than Lin Xiaohong.
This girl looked like the steady, domestic type, and she was utterly submissive to him and his family.
When Lin Xiaohong heard Old Lady Wang’s words, she turned and headed back to her room. Old Lady Lin waved her hand dismissively.
"Yuhang’s grandmother, my Xiaohong and Zhang Li called off their engagement a long time ago."
Her heart was heavy. Her daughter had been with a man and then had the engagement broken off; now that she had truly been cast aside, she herself had no standing to co…
Chapter 48