"Mother! Haven't I told you before? An unwilling melon is never sweet. Even if the Eldest Princess were to make the Commandery Princess a nun by shaving her head, she wouldn't agree to give her daughter to our family. Please don't mention it again to avoid damaging the young lady's reputation."
Things had almost come to a breaking point before; the Eldest Princess probably has quite a few objections to him and his mother. She may not hate them, but she certainly doesn't think highly of them.
"What do you know? That Commandery Princess is gentle and virtuous, I just think she is good. As for your Miss Yao, we haven't even met her, who knows what kind of temperament she has? Moreover, the girls left by the previous wife in the family—aren't they either timid as a mouse or overly aggressive? Their temperament mustn't be pleasing."
Gu Chengyu was finding it both amusing and exasperating. To him, Yao Mengxian seemed to have a decent temperament.
