Chapter 775 Who Said to Cancel the Engagement?

Deep in the manor, under a banyan tree, there was a swing hanging.

This is the deepest part of the manor, with almost no one approaching.

The swing was swinging, and a woman in a long skirt sat on the wooden frame, her body swaying, ups and downs.

The elders waiting on the side looked at this scene and thought that the eldest lady was still a child at heart.

It was quiet here late at night. Seeing the eldest lady swinging alone on the swing, she didn't look very beautiful, but looked desolate and lonely, which aroused a bit of sympathy for him, an old man in the family.

After a while, the elder spoke.

"Miss..."

"Huh?" He cast a glance from the swing, with a hint of scrutiny in his dark red eyes.

"On behalf of the head of the family." The elder changed his words.

The swing stopped shaking a lot and slowed down a lot. Ilsa said calmly: "Speak directly and don't beat around the bush. I know that as you have just inherited the position of the head of the family, it is inevitable that some people will find trouble in secret."

"I support you in inheriting the position of head of the family, but what was said at the meeting was too absolute." The elder asked tentatively: "Do you really want to break off the engagement?"

"The engagement was in name only."

"Donghuang seeks fame, Laurent seeks truth... If you lose this status, the assistance from Donghuang will be cut off in the future, and the biggest support behind you will be cut off. Those family elders will reconsider. The elder analyzed seriously: "Furthermore, once the engagement is cancelled, the nobles behind them will no longer be afraid... They have invested so much before and will never stop until Laurent is wiped out."

"I understand everything you said." Ilsa tilted her head: "But there is no best way to solve this matter. If I cannot inherit the position of the head of the family and let my uncle take the position of the head of the family, the result will be the same. , or even worse.”

"He will send me to Rome as quickly as possible, using the excuse of completing the engagement, and he will not care whether my father is dead or alive after his disappearance...if he leaves it in my hands, at least it can last for some time, Laurent It may decay, but it won’t be swallowed up in one bite.”

The elder suggested: "You can be conceited. After inheriting the position of acting family head, you can delay the completion of the engagement... ten or eight years is not too short."

"It could have been like this." Ilsa suddenly stopped swinging on the swing: "But the problem is that the young master from Donghuang is really here..."

"What?" the elder said in surprise, "When did it happen?"

"I guess it will be the middle of winter in the next two days." Ilsa took out a letter and threw it to the elder: "President Melusina of Donghuang had already sent a letter to the family, which mentioned this matter. If he comes to Midwinter, he will definitely come to the Laurentian family. By then, the engagement will no longer be a verbal agreement and will be confirmed... If the engagement is not cancelled, this incident will become an excuse for my uncle's group to attack me. "

After the elder read it, he felt that it was an unlucky thing to come, but he also felt that the other party's coming was reasonable.

The two parties have a cooperative relationship, there is no need to avoid suspicion, and the Queen's birthday is coming, so it is normal to come here.

But to cancel the engagement so directly, or to cancel it when the other party came to see his fiancée... was a slap in Dong Huang's face.

Bai Potian is a businessman. Although he doesn't care much about his face, he is a saint, and he is the kind of saint who is particularly good at fighting.

More importantly, he protects the calf.

His love of finding wives for his grandsons was well known in Rome, even in the middle of winter.

Although few people in Rome have seen Bai Yu, they all know that Bai Potian only has one grandson. The Bai family is such a single grandson, so it is impossible not to love him very much.

If Ilsa breaks off the engagement, even if Bai Potian doesn't mind, how will the young master of Donghuang feel? He can't be slapped like the Dragon Prince and say he has to endure it, right?

Even if the Dragon Prince chooses to endure it, it would still be a slap to his wife... But you haven't gone through with it yet.

The more the elder thought about it, the more he felt that this could not be done. He advised, "If we get Donghuang's support, we may not be able to suppress other objections."

Ilsa said calmly: "It's the middle of winter here. I can leave, but what about my missing father?"

"Donghuang's deterrent power is useless in the middle of winter. The real deterrent power is canonization."

"But Mr. Bai is not here, otherwise uncle and the others would not dare to be so presumptuous."

"What they are fighting for is the time difference..."

The elder still wanted to struggle and asked: "Is there really no way?"

"If that young master from Donghuang had Grandpa Bai's abilities, maybe it would be possible, but it's a pity..."

Ilsa shook her head and sighed. As far as she knew, the young master from Donghuang was less than twenty years old, so he could not be expected to have the prestige and ability to overwhelm the entire family.

At this time, a maid walked into the courtyard.

"Miss, elder... guests have arrived."

"Where did the guest come from?" The elder waved his hand: "If he is not a distinguished guest, let him go back."

"They are the president of Donghuang from Rome, and... the young master of the Bai family."

The elder was stunned, and immediately looked at Ilsa, thinking that this must have happened too soon.

The woman jumped off the swing and said calmly: "Let's go, we can't keep the guests waiting."

The elder sighed silently, wondering how a good marriage could end up like this.

Ilsa didn't mind this at all.

It turns out that Laurent borrowed a name, and the engagement was originally in name only.

When her father comes back, she will bear the consequences of breaking off the engagement.

There are always people who have to make sacrifices for the family, and I owe the family so much that I can't even repay it in five hundred years.

…

"Is this the Laurennin family?"

"Yes." Melusina noticed Bai Yu's strange look and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"No." Bai Yu looked at the family emblem on the steel gate: "I always feel that this emblem looks quite familiar."

He felt that he had seen something similar somewhere, and the similarity was about 50% to 60%.

For a moment, he couldn't remember where he saw it.

But soon he didn't have time to worry about this problem.

The Laurennin family came to greet them, and they were all foreign faces. Bai Yu really couldn't tell them apart.

When the distinguished guests came, they had to show enough sincerity to entertain them, at least with pomp and circumstance.

Just when Bai Yu listened to Melusina chatting with the elders of the Laurennin family with a cold and arrogant expression on her face, a dinner party had been arranged.

At the banquet, Bai Yu was forced to stand and shake hands with a group of people he didn't know at all.

"This is the young master of the Donghuang family. He is really a handsome man."

"Hello, Mr. Bai Potian and I are old friends. We should get closer."

"Mr. Bai, I have a niece who can sing and dance, play the piano, and has a great vision for Daxia. If you are interested, take her with you on your return trip..."

Everyone who said good things was smiling, and they seemed to be very satisfied and valued Bai Yu.

Bai Yu was secretly complaining in his heart. Even if he was a fat man of 280 pounds, panting when walking, and full of fat, they could still say what they just said without changing their faces or beating their hearts, as if they were sincere.

This is the charm of power and status.

No matter what kind of person Bai Yu is, you only need to know that he is the successor of Donghuang. Even if he is across the sea and across the country, there are still many people who want to please him.

Bai Yu felt more and more that it was the right thing for him to never participate in any banquets of any nature when he was in Rome and no longer show up in public.

Melusina is very used to this kind of banquet performance, which also means that she has already experienced this kind of flattery and ulterior motives countless times.

Clap clap clap...

The sudden applause changed the atmosphere of the banquet.

A middle-aged man entered the banquet hall and approached enthusiastically: "President and young master of Donghuang Group, I am sorry for not welcoming you."

Melusina stood sideways in front of Bai Yu and said lightly: "Who are you?"

"Let me introduce myself. I am Morse from the Laurenning family." The middle-aged man picked up a glass of red wine and said: "Ilsa is my niece."

Melusina asked indifferently: "So Mr. Morse, do you have anything to say?"

"It's not a big deal." Morse Laurenning narrowed his eyes slightly: "I just think... Young Master Bai and Ilsa are not a good match."

This sentence immediately triggered many chain reactions in the banquet.

"What are you talking about!"

"Hurry up and apologize to Master Bai!"

"Donghuang cannot be insulted, Morse, are you crazy!"

"Calm down, calm down everyone." Morse raised his hand and pressed it: "I'm not saying that Master Bai is not qualified, but that Ilsa is not worthy... Laurenning is marrying up."

"It's not appropriate for you to say this." Melusina tapped the goblet with her fingers, and the sound echoed crisply, looking down coldly: "Whether it's marrying up or not, it's up to us to decide."

Morse shook the red wine glass in his hand. Facing Melusina's burst of superior momentum, he took a step back calmly and said lightly: "Don't be too harsh, Miss President... This engagement was originally a bit forced, why not get it back on track?"

Melusina didn't say anything, but a crack appeared on the wine glass she was holding.

In Rome, no one dared to talk to her like this.

In the dead of winter, everyone knew how much favor the Laurenning family had received from Bai Potian.

As a result, he had not appeared for just a few months, and these people showed such an ugly face. Does this mean... to cancel the engagement?

Melusina asked lightly: "Is this your idea, or the idea of ​​the Laurennin family as a whole?"

The elders around immediately said: "This is all Morse's personal opinion!"

"We will not support him!"

"Morse, you dare to be so rude to the distinguished guests, get out of here!"

Correspondingly, there are also elders who support Morse.

"The original engagement was unreasonable."

"The head of the family made the engagement, but now the head of the family is gone, it's time to reconsider it."

"..."

There are all kinds of arguments, and the banquet scene has once again become a quagmire of quarrels.

This is also the effect Morse needs.

This is the result he deliberately created.

If Ilsa is allowed to cancel the engagement privately, this matter may not be a big deal. At that time, Ilsa will still take over the position of the head of the family, and he still cannot sit in the position of the head of the family.

Now, making this matter public has created a dilemma for Ilsa.

If Ilsa admitted that she wanted to cancel the engagement, Donghuang would be furious, and Ilsa would be responsible for it. The old backbones who originally supported the head of the family would reconsider their positions, and it would only be a matter of time before they seized power.

If she did not admit that she wanted to cancel the engagement, she would be forced to get married quickly. As long as she went to Rome, the position of head of the Laurennin family would fall into his hands.

Morse blocked both roads, and the next step was to wait for Ilsa to come forward.

"Okay, stop arguing."

He had seen the other party appear at the other end of the banquet hall, so he raised his voice and asked in public.

"Ilsa, now you are the acting head of the family, everything is up to you."

"Do you want to continue this engagement or cancel it?"

The elder at the gate of the banquet not far away had a livid face, thinking that this situation was simply terrible.

He should have come directly to stabilize the situation, but he didn't expect that Morse had already left spies in the manor and deliberately came to make trouble.

How can the acting head of the family step down?

It was clearly a dilemma.

He was about to open his mouth to make a step.

At the same time, his eyes frantically hinted that Ilsa should use the excuse of being unwell and delay as much as possible... Making a decision on the spot was undoubtedly an irrational choice.

Unexpectedly, Ilsa, who had already changed into a banquet evening dress, stepped directly into the banquet venue.

Her beautiful dark red eyes swept across the crowd, passed by Morse's body, and then fell on the young man in the center of the banquet.

"Cancel the engagement?"

The corners of her lips raised, questioning.

She stared straight at Bai Yu with her beautiful dark red eyes.

In her shallow smile, two sharp teeth were exposed.

"When did I say..."

"Are you going to cancel the engagement?"

Looking around, the red magic surged like a tide, and she said in a loud voice.

"Everyone in the Luolangning family, listen to me--"

"In this life, I will not marry anyone other than Mr. Yu!"