His awakening this time was different from the feeling of awakening from sleep that had occurred before. Xue Ling's consciousness had just entered this body when everything before his eyes became instantly clear. He sat there for a moment, his eyes full of confusion, but with a simple blink of his eyes, the confusion disappeared.
Xue Ling's gaze slowly focused on a beautiful woman sitting opposite him.
She was a middle-aged woman, and she had two tall bodyguards beside her. Her face held an expression of worry and guilt, and when Xue Ling could see everything clearly, he only sensed that there was a layer of falseness on her face, as though the person opposite him would pull out a stack of cheques from her purse at any time and ask him how much money he needed in order to leave her son.
In fact, that was not far from the plot.
Xue Ling had no opportunity to receive the plot right now. He didn't even know what his current identity was, whether he was a man or a woman, or a gender that was neither male or female. The number of times that the system had played such tricks on him was not limited to one or two times; Xue Ling lowered his head and glanced at the fishtail skirt covering the lower half of his body, moved slightly, and found that he was sitting in a wheelchair.
Xue Ling placed himself in the category of being neither male nor female.
The madam opposite of him was also a mermaid. Her fishtail skirt was very simple, and her entire person seemed full of dignity as she pressed her lips together and did not speak. It made people feel especially sympathetic.
She opened her mouth to say, "Wenwen, now that my family's Lou Cen is like this, asking you to get married to him would definitely be wronging you. I also can't bear to have a beautiful and lovely little merperson like you marry into my family to suffer, not even having a husband to keep you company while receiving the ridicule of everyone all around. Wenwen is still young, and there will be better mates waiting for you in the future. There is absolutely no need to hang yourself on a tree."
Xue Ling shifted his eyes. The screen in his mind was full of the words 'it really is another marriage agreement'. The system seemed particularly fond of finding trouble for him, preparing a huge pile of strange situations for him to resolve every time.
He pressed his lips together and lowered his gaze, somewhat unwillingly opening his mouth to say, "Aunt's meaning is… asking me to break off the engagement?"
The madame nodded, not having expected that he would be so easy to persuade. She sighed again and said, "Cen'er might not wake up from his sleep for three or five years. The two of you have a marriage agreement, and the person who would be held up is you. How many three to five years can a little merperson afford? You and Cen'er have only met once by chance, and your aunt just wants to persuade you to let go, and see the bigger picture."
Xue Ling said in his heart that he could see the bigger picture, he could really see clearly. It was rare for him to have an opportunity to refuse an engagement that had been placed in front of him – he naturally would reject it 100%. Only, it's not right for you to ask me to leave without giving me a check.
From listening to this madame words, Xue Ling could tell that his own family background should be very good. At least, it was a family that the other party could not easily provoke. Otherwise, she would have to try so hard and use such well-meaning words to convince him and ask him to withdraw from the engagement.
But, who cares? He'll first pull out and then go from there. Regardless of whether or not this was the original body owner's real love, Xue Ling would not easily agree to things like an engagement.
"Good." Just like that, Xue Ling opened his mouth and spoke. "I agree to cancel the engagement."
Obviously, the madame had not thought that he would really be so agreeable, looking at Xue Ling in surprise. When she saw that he had his head lowered, quiet as he pressed his lips together and frowned as though thinking deeply, she was afraid that he would take back his words, so she hurriedly pressed on, "If that's the case, we can speak to your mother and make it clear now, and then dissolve your engagement to Cen'er today. Since we have not hosted an engagement banquet and have only verbally agreed, the impact on Wenwen can also be kept to a minimum."
Xue Ling saw that she had immediately opened up something that looked like a wristwatch from her wrist, bringing up a virtual screen, and guessed that it was probably something like a nano-computer. Sure enough, another beautiful woman appeared on the virtual screen soon after. Xue Ling was just thinking that this person was somewhat familiar to him when he heard the madame that was sitting across from him open her mouth to say, "Wenwen, you should confirm this with your mother."
Xue Ling nodded, looked at the person on the screen and said, "Mother, I want to break my engagement with Lou Cen."
The woman's face changed slightly, and the expression on her face was somewhat strange as she looked at Xue Ling. "Since you've now thought it through, I will accept it. But after today, even if you cry and cause a stir claiming that you will never marry anyone but him after Lou Cen wakes up, I will not agree to it again."
Xue Ling nodded, "Yes."
Were they joking? Even if it was the man, he would need to come to his home to request a marriage. Asking him to roll around on the ground wailing and begging to marry him? Ha-ha.