Even if Lin Yi racked his brains he could not even imagine something like this happening.
For a moment, he did not know how to react.
He really did not like Lu Ning. He despised all forms of coercion, and from the moment he found out that he was going to marry into the Lù family he had always resisted. He kept thinking of ways to turn them down, but it was all useless. At that time, as he was young and impetuous, he hated the Lù family and, with it, Lu Ning as well.
Hence, he had never treated Lu Ning well and never spoke much to her. Later on, when he saw that his resistance was ineffective, he simply went overseas for a few years—out of sight, out of mind.
However, at that time, he had hoped that Lu Ning would also resist that arrangement together with him; perhaps, then, this matter would be turned around, so that he would not have to marry her, nor she him.
