As Wuxian leaves the room and heads down the hall, he eventually passes by a smaller meeting chamber where there are several angry tones.
"You swore! You gave her your word! You know the kind of insult you are delivering to my clan?" Ouyang Huifang, Wanyin's supposed future father-in-law cried with outrage. "I will not forgive this slight! Tell the servants, we shall leave at once!"
"Please, Ouyang-shidi! Calm! Jiang-zongzhu! Reconsider! This is still a good match! Lady Ouyang Anju may be willing to wait. Circumstances happen. We all know this."
"No, Ouyang-zongzhu. No. I've made up my mind. It's off. I'm needed elsewhere," Jiang Cheng answers, though his voice was more hollow than it normally was. That hollow tone was still encased in steel. "You may tell your clan and I'll go inform the rest of the guests. I'll return whatever has been gifted to me or repay the value as is proper-"
"Double! Triple! I want triple for this humiliation! There should be retribution!" Huifang demanded.
"No, Ouyang-shibi, no. Let's be reasonable. If Jiang-zongzhu will pay an additional.. fifty percent. That should be-"
"Thirty!"
"Triple!"
"Thirty-five?"
"Done."
"Jiang-zongzhu will pay back the dowry plus an extra thirty-five percent and thus will dissolve this agreement. Sandu Shengshou, I am sorry for what happened with your nephew. I hope you can assist him in rebuilding his guard." The Ouyang sect leader and the former-future-father-in-law leave the room, leaving Jiang Cheng looking about ready to commit murder.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninetydegrees
no subject
2021-08-19 09:28 (UTC)"You swore! You gave her your word! You know the kind of insult you are delivering to my clan?" Ouyang Huifang, Wanyin's supposed future father-in-law cried with outrage. "I will not forgive this slight! Tell the servants, we shall leave at once!"
"Please, Ouyang-shidi! Calm! Jiang-zongzhu! Reconsider! This is still a good match! Lady Ouyang Anju may be willing to wait. Circumstances happen. We all know this."
"No, Ouyang-zongzhu. No. I've made up my mind. It's off. I'm needed elsewhere," Jiang Cheng answers, though his voice was more hollow than it normally was. That hollow tone was still encased in steel. "You may tell your clan and I'll go inform the rest of the guests. I'll return whatever has been gifted to me or repay the value as is proper-"
"Double! Triple! I want triple for this humiliation! There should be retribution!" Huifang demanded.
"No, Ouyang-shibi, no. Let's be reasonable. If Jiang-zongzhu will pay an additional.. fifty percent. That should be-"
"Thirty!"
"Triple!"
"Thirty-five?"
"Done."
"Jiang-zongzhu will pay back the dowry plus an extra thirty-five percent and thus will dissolve this agreement. Sandu Shengshou, I am sorry for what happened with your nephew. I hope you can assist him in rebuilding his guard." The Ouyang sect leader and the former-future-father-in-law leave the room, leaving Jiang Cheng looking about ready to commit murder.