"Mm." After another indifferent nod, just when Mu Lin thought that was all the reaction she'd get, Jing Chen suddenly continued, "Grandpa Xue is right, you should get married. If you keep delaying, I reckon no one will want you."
Mu Lin's lips curled; she felt like her grandpa was taking some kind of perverse pleasure in the situation, with a bit of a snarky mouth to boot; but, she liked it.
In the Xue Family, given Jing Chen's understanding of the guy before him, probably the only person who could trick him into coming back was old Mr. Xue. Ordinary people just didn't have that kind of slyness.
"Schadenfreude." Xue Rui gave Jing Chen a big eye roll.
Outsiders always felt that Jing Chen and Xue Rui were arch-enemies, as if the Jing and Xue families were in some sort of opposition. In reality, that wasn't the case.
It's just that neither he nor Xue Rui, the Jing family or the Xue family, could be bothered to explain to outsiders.
