Chapter 135

Hearing Ye Chen's special request, Song Wanting smiled and said: "Okay, since it's the first glass of wine, let me say why first."

As she spoke, she cleared her throat, smiled beautifully, and said: "The first glass of wine is of course because of thanking you! You saved my grandfather today and helped me a big favor!"

Ye Chen nodded and smiled: "Okay, then let's finish this glass of wine!"

After speaking, he picked up the wine glass, clinked it lightly with the wine glass in Song Wanting's hand, and drank it in one gulp.

Song Wanting also drank all the wine in the glass very boldly, and then asked Ye Chen with a smile: "Mr. Ye, why don't you tell me why the second glass is for?"

"Okay." Ye Chen smiled and said: "This second glass is for fate! In this world, people being able to know each other is a fate cultivated over thousands of years. You and I have fate, so this glass of wine is for fate!"

"Okay!" Song Wanting smiled and said: "For fate!"

Immediately after, the third glass, Song Wanting's pretty face was flushed, and she said: "This glass of wine is for Mr. Ye's perfect skills. I saw Mr. Ye's ability to treat illnesses and save lives today, and I became more convinced that it was no accident that you drew thunder to strike Yu Jinghai to death. Mr. Ye, do you want to say it yourself?"

Ye Chen smiled casually and said unfathomably: "Whether it's an accident or not, God knows it in his heart. As for you and me, mortals, we can only say that the secrets of heaven cannot be revealed."

Song Wanting nodded and smiled, her beautiful eyes constantly flowing as she looked at Ye Chen, and said seriously: "For the secrets of heaven cannot be revealed, let's drink a glass!"

"Okay!"

After a few glasses of wine, Song Wanting's eyes had a bit of confusion.

Although her drinking capacity was good, drinking several glasses of red wine in one breath, she couldn't help but feel a bit tipsy at this time.

At this time, it was her turn to say the toast and the reason for drinking.

Song Wanting looked at Ye Chen with a pair of big eyes with a bit of intoxication, and suddenly said faintly: "Actually, Mr. Ye, I recently discovered that you are actually quite good."

"Quite good?" Ye Chen chuckled twice and asked curiously: "Which aspect are you referring to?"

"Many aspects." Song Wanting said seriously: "You are much more interesting than the people I usually come into contact with. Many people I usually come into contact with are either constantly flattering me, holding me up, following me, or have some unclear intentions toward me. It can be said that not many of them are good things."

"Why?" Ye Chen asked curiously: "Do you think I have no intentions toward you?"

Song Wanting nodded and said: "I feel that you seem to have a feeling of being detached from the world."

Ye Chen asked curiously: "Detached from the world? How do you say that?"

Song Wanting said seriously: "Mr. Ye looks ordinary, but he is actually very capable. He is capable but not arrogant. He doesn't show his mountains or water usually, but once someone touches your bottom line, you will also fight back without hesitation, and you are decisive in killing, leaving no chance for the opponent to fight back. These qualities are definitely not possessed by ordinary people."

As she spoke, Song Wanting said again: "More importantly, I don't understand, since you have such great ability, why do you want to be a live-in son-in-law in the Xiao family? The Xiao family is just an ordinary second or third-rate family, how can you, this great god, stay in it?"

Ye Chen didn't answer her question, but asked her: "Then where do you think I should stay if I don't stay in the Xiao family? Or rather, where do you think I can stay?"

Song Wanting said seriously: "I think you should marry into a top big family. For a master like you, countless big families would sharpen their heads to marry their daughters to you."

Ye Chen smiled: "What's the point of that? This kind of interest combination itself has no love factor. Do the girls in big families really want to marry someone they don't like? Or are they willing to have their lives directed and controlled by the family?"

Song Wanting said as a matter of course: "Of course! Any big family has very strict discipline for the girls in the family. For example, they must go to very top noble schools, not to learn knowledge, but to learn noble social etiquette. For another example, before a certain age or opportunity, the family strictly forbids us from contacting outsiders of the opposite sex, and never allows us to fall in love ourselves."

"Go." Ye Chen asked in surprise: "It's already the 21st century, how can you big families be more feudal than the families in our country's ancient feudal society?"

"This is not feudalism." Song Wanting said seriously: "This is the survival rule of upper-class families."

"Survival rule?" Ye Chen asked curiously: "How do you say that?"

Song Wanting said seriously: "We need to cooperate, bind, and exchange resources with other families. So one of the Song family's family rules is very important: all direct members of the family must obey the family's arrangements when it comes to marriage."

"In the feudal society, the Song family's marriage requirements were that marriage must be between cousins, that is, the previous cousin marrying a cousin, which was to prevent wealth dilution or outflow. However, the country now prohibits marriage between three generations of blood relatives. But even abroad, there are still many cousins marrying now."

"Later, our family rules gradually relaxed. We don't require marrying cousins, but it must be marriage with other large families. The other party's family power can be higher than our own, but it absolutely cannot be too much lower than our own."

Speaking of this, Song Wanting sighed and continued: "The family thinks that a certain family has value for cooperation, so they will find ways to let the family's men marry the women of the other party's family, or marry the family's women into the other party's family. In short, every family member must put family interests first and must not disobey any of the family's arrangements, especially major marriage events."

Ye Chen sighed and said: "It seems that big families also have the troubles of big families. The richer they are, the more greedy they are for money."

While speaking, Ye Chen was also sighing in his heart. It seems that if he went back to the Ye family, the Ye family would definitely control him in the same way, and might even look down on the Xiao family, forcing him to divorce Xiao Churan, and then introduce him to a rich daughter of equal status.

It seems that this Ye family really cannot be returned to.

Thinking in his heart, Ye Chen asked: "By the way, I see that you are also at the age of getting married, Miss Song. I don't know if your family has set a marriage for you?"

Song Wanting shook her head and said: "It was originally going to be set. First, my cousin Song Rongyu's marriage was set. His fiancée is a daughter of a northern family that my grandfather had designated long ago. When it was my turn, my grandfather became seriously ill, so this matter was not taken care of. But now that my grandfather has recovered, I guess my marriage will soon be planned..."