Chapter 818 An Arranged Marriage


    Peggy asked Allen to go back to the room and then turned to Sue. She looked at her in the most


    generous manner and said, "Sue, please consider the family ties between you and Allen. Why not


    make things a little easy for him?"


    "Do you mean to say that Allen is suffering a lot?" Sue''s lips curved into a sarcastic smile as she spoke


    in an utterly cold voice, "Peggy Li, it is I who had to ovee untold sufferings and struggle in order to


    survive in the city. And what about Allen? He has been living a life offort and sce under your


    protection!"


    She looked at Peggy coldly and continued, "Peggy Li, did it ever ur to you about sparing a bit of


    love and care for me, at least a fraction of the indulgence that you shower on Allen."


    "Shut up!" Peggy blurted. The very mention of her love for her sonpletely changed her facial


    expression from being generous to absolutely defensive. "I have every reason to love Allen more than


    you!" she added in a defiant manner.


    Peggy treated Sue as someone absolutely insignificant and irrelevant.


    It never urred to her that her words could even hurt Sue. She spoke her mind without any


    hesitation, caring least about how Sue would feel, "The fact that I gave birth to Allen uplifted my


    position in our family, while your birth was a bane to me. Don''t you know vigers prefer boys to girls? If


    a woman gives birth to a girl, she will be cursed while a boy child brings respect for the mother." A glow


    came to her face as she justified the reason to be more devouring towards a son instead of a daughter.


    "How could you say that?" Sue forced a smile and said, "Peggy Li, don''t you know a woman should be


    duly respected?"


    "A woman?" Peggy stared at Sue as if she had uttered something absolutely obnoxious. Peggy


    sneered at her and continued, "I havepleted every duty since the day I stepped into this family


    after my marriage ording to my father''s wish. The betrothal gifts obtained from my marriage was


    used in establishing a house for my brother. You father was gone without regrets because I have lived


    up to his expectation."


    Peggy put a satisfying smile on her face and continued, "It is the duty of a woman to assist her


    husband, bring up her children and remain upied with household chores."


    She looked at Sue coldly and continued, "I am fully aware of your new ideas that are developed by


    social undertaking these years. But you have to take the responsibility of assisting your younger


    brother. Can you make any sense out of it?"


    "The responsibility?" Sue could not help butugh coldly and asked, "What is my inherent


    responsibility?"


    "You must do something to help your younger brother get married and settle down. And then marry a


    good man to live peacefully." Peggy continued her argument in a calm and gentle voice, "Let go of your


    wishful thinking and turn towards your inherent responsibility."


    She looked at Sue coldly and said, "Your good looks can only trigger beastly courage of a man. It is not


    something that you are meant for."


    "Stop nonsense!" Sue blurted out at Peggy. Her thoughts turned to Anthony and her abortive romance.


    Suddenly she felt as if Peggy had touched upon her sore point. She red up and sneered, "Have you


    "Mind yournguage, Sue!" Peggy frowned and continued, "Born in a vige, we are destined to marry


    someone and live an ordinary life."


    Sue did not have words to curse her misfortune to have been born to this woman. There was a mixture


    of pain and frustration on her face. She sneered and said, "I would rather be adopted by someone than


    be raised by you!"


    "Definitely! I did think of that!" Peggy sneered and continued, "But since you were a grown up girl, it


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    prevented me from doing so. Now it is your duty to pay for my pains in bringing you up! Do you


    understand?"


    Hearing Peggy''s unapologetic confession, Sue became absolutely quiet. She did not need another


    word to prove the fact that she meant nothing more to her mother than just a scapegoat who could be


    sacrificed for the benefit of the son of the house. Had Peggy not been her blood mother, she would


    have pped her right across her face to vent out her anger.


    Seeing Sue rendered speechless, Peggy tried to persuade her to ept the arranged marriage. "The


    family has a very respectable reputation in our vige and has promised to give us handsome betrothal


    gifts that would be enough for your younger brother to marry a good woman upon your eptance into


    the family."


    Peggy looked at Sue meaningfully and continued her persuasion, "Born a woman, you have to ept


    your destiny. And you will marry a good man, so will your younger brother -- both of you will be happily


    settled in respective lives."


    "Are you referring to the son of Li family head in our vige?" Sue took a guess of the possible


    bridegroom and replied in a cold voice.


    "Yes..." Peggy was a little surprised at Sue''s correct assumption. After a moment of silence she


    continued, "The family has sent us the betrothal gifts and promised to renovate our houseter.


    Besides they are ready to cover the wholesale expenses of wedding. Such opportunity knocks but


    once! You must seize it!" Peggy looked at Sue with persuasive eyes expecting her to give in after such


    a long and eloquent discussion.


    Sue sneered and looked at Peggy helplessly. "Peggy Li, by no means would I marry into the family no


    matter what you tell me."


    She forced a sarcastic smile as she realized Peggy''s unscrupulous ways to make things easy for Allen.


    "Despite my absence in the vige for so many years, I know that the man is an idiot. My eptance


    into the family would mean untold sufferings!" Sue could no longer tolerate the nonsense and illogical


    bantering of the uneducated woman. She felt immensely wronged and said, "Since you have


    developed an illicit rtionship with the idiot''s father, why not solemnize that?."


    Sue had hardly finished her sentence when Peggy''s rough palmnded on her cheek. Sue covered her


    cheek with her hand and caressed it gently.


    Peggy stared at Sue and said, "Sue, just stop you nonsense or be prepared to suffer the


    consequence!"


    "I am telling the truth!" Sue let off a cold smile and said, "Your scandal has been known to one and all


    in the vige!"


    "I am telling you for thest time, I will make you suffer a lot if you continue speaking nonsense in front


    of me!" Peggy was so humiliated and angered that she pulled Sue''s hair and scowled, "Your disrespect


    towards me does injustice to my painstaking efforts in raising you!"


    Peggy could not hold back her temper and pointed at Sue menacingly. "Today I must teach you a good


    lesson or you always remain discourteous to your seniors."


    Peggy was a strong woman, the strength of her arms to be attributed to her heavy manualbor. Sue


    knew that she had to protect herself.


    As Peggy caught Sue in her strong arms, Sue shielded her face as it was the important thing for her


    job.