Mo Yan was indifferent to what others thought and couldn't be bothered to explain herself to a stranger. After politely seeing Madame An off, she gleefully accepted congratulations from her family, then shut herself away to revel in the Imperial Edict on her own.
Xue tuanzi, irritated by someone's silly demeanor, came out to make its presence known. Mo Yan suppressed it with one hand and even blocked it out of her consciousness.
After her joy subsided, Mo Yan pondered over the motive behind the marriage decree. She picked up her pen to write to Xiao Ruiyuan, mentioning the Cui family's proposal incidentally. Her aim was to remind him not to get complacent just because of the Imperial Edict of marriage; if she wanted to "climb over the wall," she still had plenty of chances!
