Chapter 3457 — Guan Xin's Betrothal
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"Mm, then I'm relieved…" Guan Xin nodded. "There's one more thing. I hadn't intended to speak of it, but you've given me hope for the Cloud Terrace Isle plan—perhaps I really can come back alive, after all. So I must tell you this now…"
"What is it?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. He could not imagine what else Guan Xin could consider so important; it seemed to have nothing to do with cultivation or inheritors.
"It's like this… my father arranged a betrothal for me when I was little, and there had been no word of it for all this time, but… all of a sudden, he told me that word had come from that family, and that I should prepare to meet my intended…" Guan Xin said, rather vexed. "I've never even seen him, and I don't like him. And if I hadn't met you, that would be one thing—but now the person I like is you, and Father still wants me to go and meet him. What am I supposed to do?"
"Ugh…" Wei Zhao had not expected Guan Xin's father, Guan Xiaopeng, to be so earnest about the betrothal. He had assumed it was a dead letter, only for it to be brought up again. Still, this was their family's business. The Guan family asked nothing of the world and never vied for rank or standing among the great and hidden clans; they would not force Guan Xin into an arrangement for some advantage—nor switch her over to Wei Zhao for gain.
In this they were utterly unlike the hidden Yu family. If the Guan family were like the Yus, Wei Zhao would be confident of settling the matter. But it was not so. Guan Xiaopeng's ambitions were not those of the hidden Yus, and given Guan Xuewen's relationship with him, Wei Zhao could not very well strong-arm Guan Xiaopeng.
This really was a headache. Then Wei Zhao thought a moment and said suddenly, "By the way—aren't you best at cooking food so utterly revolting that it scares off any prospective match? You could try that again this time!"
Wei Zhao had suffered from that trick several times himself, and the stratagem came to mind at once.
"I thought of that too, but my father said straight out that we'd meet at a restaurant—he's not giving me a chance to show off my cooking!" Guan Xin sighed helplessly. "I suppose Father was afraid of exactly that, so he deliberately set the meeting place at a hotel!"
Wei Zhao reflected that this was true; she had used that trick so often that Guan Xiaopeng had naturally caught on. Now, for the real meeting, it was useless—and poor Wei Zhao was the one who suffered for it.
"Looks like I'm the unlucky one!" Wei Zhao thought for a moment. "What sort of person is he, this fellow?"
"They say he's the successor of the man who once helped my father. I don't know him, I've never seen him—I don't even know his name!" Guan Xin said. "If I knew his interests and hobbies, I could put on some display that runs counter to them, and he probably wouldn't like me then. But without knowing what he's like, I can't prescribe the right remedy!"
"Why not prepare yourself the conventional way—figure out what sort of girl a boy dislikes, and dress yourself up in that direction?" Wei Zhao thought for a moment and suggested. "For instance, make yourself out to be thoroughly wanton, with every other word about one-night stands and hookups, or just tell him straight out that you're pregnant!"
"P-p-pregnant?" Guan Xin was instantly dumbstruck. RS