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Chapter 48: Lu Miaoyun!_1
Chapter 48: Lu Miaoyun!_1
Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Lu Miaoyun!_1
Translator: 549690339
“Lu Bo, the Family Head is willing to marry the second young miss to me, and I am truly overwhelmed and delighted,”
“I am also very fond of the second young miss, but she and I are not suitable for each other,”
Lu Changsheng said with a bitter smile as he faced Lu Bo, who had come with the air of ‘demanding an explanation.’
“Not only do I have so many wives and children, but when I first sought cultivation, I also vowed to marry a hundred women and have several hundred children in my lifetime,”
“And what the second young miss desires is a person who is wholly devoted to her, but this is something I cannot and will not be able to achieve…”
“Therefore, while the second young miss and I might be fated to meet, we are not destined to share our lives. Even if we truly became husband and wife, these issues could potentially become seeds of discord,”
“If there are conflicts, then I would have let down the Family Head’s trust and nurturing. I would be too ashamed to face the Family Head,”
Lu Changsheng said with a face full of sincere earnestness.
Lu Bo’s wrinkled face twitched slightly upon hearing Lu Changsheng’s words.
The declaration of marrying a hundred wives and fathering several hundred children was indeed too much for him to bear.
He felt like asking, Are you a breeding pig?
But considering that in a little over four years, Lu Changsheng already had twelve women and had never stopped having children,
He did seem to have some intention of striving toward that goal.
“Ah!”
Lu Bo sighed deeply.
He never expected that, in this arranged meeting, though Lu Miaohuan agreed, Lu Changsheng on the other hand did not, feeling it was not suitable.
However, as poorly considered as Lu Changsheng’s reasons might be, they were understandable and made some sense.
While Lu Changsheng’s talent in talisman making was exceptional, it was still just latent potential and had not all been turned into strength.
If the two truly married, Lu Miaohuan would technically be gaining the upper hand. Given Lu Miaohuan’s personality, between the two of them, it would certainly be Lu Changsheng making more concessions for Lu Miaohuan.
It would still be fine if Lu Changsheng were willing to make those concessions,
But if the situation turned out as Lu Changsheng described, and the two eventually entered into marital discord, what should the Lu Family do then?
Favor Lu Miaohuan?
Naturally, that would not do.
With Lu Changsheng’s exceptional natural talent in Talisman Making, if he could take his talents one step further, turning his potential into strength, his position in the Lu Family would soon be comparable to that of a Guest Elder.
To take such a course of action would clearly cause resentment in Lu Changsheng, like driving him away from the family.
The Lu Family’s strategy of marrying a direct female member to Lu Changsheng was to firmly bind him to the Lu Family.
If things played out this way, it would be a case of being too clever by half, and the result would be the opposite of what was intended.
But if they favored Lu Changsheng, that would put the Patriarch of the Lu Family, Lu Yuanding, in a difficult position.
Thus, if Lu Changsheng and Lu Miaohuan did marry and conflict arose, the Lu Family would indeed be in a difficult position on both sides.
“Alright, I understand what you mean, and I will relay it to the Family Head as is,”
Lu Bo gave Lu Changsheng a pat on the shoulder, not saying much else.
After all, this kind of matter required the willing consent of both parties, and they couldn’t force Lu Changsheng into anything.
Honestly speaking, the Lu Family would even tend to lean more towards Lu Changsheng’s side.
“Thank you, Lu Bo,”
Lu Changsheng said, wearing an expression of guilty apology.
He had originally planned to use this occasion to bring up the matter of Li Feiyu’s children to Lu Yuanding,
See if he could request Lu Yuanding to reduce or at least lessen the number of Li Feiyu’s fifty children.
But now, after this development, he felt a bit embarrassed to bring it up and decided to set the matter aside, to look for another opportunity in the future.
“He said he wants to marry a hundred wives? Have several hundred children?”
Lu Yuanding was at a loss for words upon hearing Lu Bo’s account, unsure of what to say for a moment.
Was this man trying to walk through what took a hundred years for a family to accomplish in just a few decades?
It seemed Lu Changsheng had truly given up on cultivation and only wanted to have children.
But considering Lu Changsheng’s Ninth Grade Spiritual Root, he could somewhat understand.
“Yes, Family Head,”
“Though it sounds like a joke, I feel that Lu Changsheng is quite serious about it, and it doesn’t seem like he is using it as an excuse to avoid marrying the second young miss,”
Lu Bo said with a bitter smile.
Lu Yuanding nodded upon hearing this,
Then sighed deeply, “I guess I did not consider this matter thoroughly enough.”
No matter whether Lu Changsheng’s words were an excuse or the truth, he harbored no blame toward him.
As the head of a family, he still possessed the capacity to be tolerant of others.
For the sake of the family’s interests, he couldn’t possibly blame Lu Changsheng.
Besides, when it came to this marriage, he had always been thinking about his daughter Lu Miaohuan.
He felt that Lu Changsheng was an excellent match for his daughter.
He had never considered Lu Changsheng’s wishes and thoughts.
There was also a subconscious arrogance in his heart.
He thought that if he gave his daughter to Lu Changsheng, Lu Changsheng would be too grateful to refuse.
But now that he thought about it, what Lu Changsheng said made sense.
Putting aside the matter of Lu Changsheng wanting to have hundreds of children, their personalities also indeed did not match well; what if they had conflicts in the future?
He was confident that he could control Lu Changsheng now, but what about later?
Even if he was the Patriarch of the Lu Family, he couldn’t pressure someone with power forever; the other family elders wouldn’t agree either.
Moreover, what Lu Changsheng said was also considering the Lu Family’s perspective.
It showed that he had a certain sense of belonging to the Lu Family; it was well-intentioned.
“Sigh.”
Lu Yuanding let out another sigh.
He was now just a father worried sick over his daughter.
Thinking of how his daughter’s anger had subsided and she was willing to wait for Lu Changsheng’s response showed that his daughter truly had a good impression of Lu Changsheng.
But now that Lu Changsheng disagreed, he was somewhat unsure how to face his daughter, or what to say about this matter.
Headache.
Two days later, Lu Changsheng received another matchmaking invitation.
He understood now that the Lu Family’s upper echelons were determined to marry him to a woman of significance within the family.
Only then would he truly be considered one of their own, a Lu Family son-in-law.
Even though he had previously married and taken nine worldly women from the Lu Family as wives and concubines, in the eyes of the family’s higher-ups, this did not count as him truly being a Lu Family son-in-law.
The girl from this matchmaking session was named Lu Miaoyun, the granddaughter of the Lu Family’s Fourth Elder.
Eighteen this year, with a Seventh Grade Spiritual Root, she was delicate and lovely, with a docile and sensible personality.
Perhaps because of what happened with Lu Miaohuan, the Lu Family had specifically chosen a docile and sensible girl.
The matchmaking session went very smoothly.
After the two met, both sides nodded in agreement, and the next day the Lu Family arranged their wedding.
The wedding day was set for eighteen days later, coinciding with an auspicious day on the lunar calendar.
Meanwhile,
Within an ancient and exquisitely elegant small building,
“Smash!”
An ornately patterned vase was hurled to the ground, shattering into countless pieces.
The fragments on the ground reflected a beautiful face filled with coldness.
In the room, Lu Miaohuan smashed one vase after another to vent her anger until she finally calmed down.
“You tell me, is Lu Changsheng purposely humiliating me because of what happened back then?”
Lu Miaohuan suddenly looked up, her eyes slightly red as she turned to her personal maid Kui Si.
After leaving the Bamboo Heart Pavilion, her anger had slightly cooled, and she was still considering giving Lu Changsheng another chance.
As long as Lu Changsheng was willing to come and apologize, she was still willing to marry him.
But to her surprise, Lu Changsheng flat-out refused her.
And just two days later, he was betrothed to her cousin, the granddaughter of the Fourth Elder, Lu Miaoyun.
For her, a woman of high pride, it felt like humiliation.
“Miss, how could that be?”
The maid Kui Si cautiously said, “Lu Changsheng would be too eager to please you.”
“I heard that the reason Lu Changsheng didn’t agree is that he felt unworthy of you, Miss. He still wants to take wives and concubines to have a bunch of children, that’s why he chose Miss Miaoyun.”
Lu Miaohuan surely knew that Lu Changsheng wasn’t purposely humiliating her.
Her father Lu Yuanding had also come to soothe and comfort her.
But she just couldn’t swallow this insult.
Lu Miaohuan’s beautiful eyes narrowed, her chest rose and fell with indignation, and then she said through clenched teeth, “Lu Changsheng, I will find a man ten times, a hundred times stronger than you, to make you regret this!”