Every Lifetime I Fall {COMPLETED but undergoing revisions}

Chapter 3: First Life - The Wedding

"Master and Madame, Young Master has sent word," the man greeted them with his hands together.

"What is it?" Master Wu asked.

"He cannot make it to the wedding."

He-- what?

My heart was hurting. My legs wanting to fall. Yi Huai was abandoning me.

"Oh, just why is that?" Madame Wu asked but looked at me the entire time like she was watching me lose my mind.

"He said... he cannot marry Miss Mu Dan. Here's his letter... but he wished for me to say this to Miss Mu Dan because he knows... she cannot read well."

What? Just what words does he have for me? Is there hope?

The man approached me. My heart was about to jump out and run away. This was too much pain.

He said, "Mu Dan, I cannot marry someone stupid like you."

"We're sorry, Mu Dan. It is our fault to have given birth to someone so undutiful," Master Wu walked over to me and said this, but I could not find comfort in his words. Yi Huai really did not want to marry someone dumb like me.

"Right, you've been waiting for hours and he still haven't come. He doesn't truly love you at all."

Why were they saying all this? Why were they hurting me over and over?

"It's best if you return home," Master Wu said this to me before turning away.

"No. I will wait for Yi Huai. I want to hear him say that he doesn't love me. I want to hear him say that he doesn't want to marry me," I said with tears escaping my eyes, "Then I will leave."

Master and Madam Wu looked at each other before allowing me to wait. However, they said I could not wait in their home but outside because it would be inappropriate. It was better that way anyhow because if I was outside then I would be able to greet Yi Huai faster.

The whole night I waited with my arms around my knees, looking over to the path where he would have walked in from. I didn't see his face or even a shadow resembling him come.

I fell asleep at the door's gate when the next morning my Grandma came and started screaming at the Wu.

"If you didn't want to marry Mu Dan then you shouldn't have dishonored her like this! How are we going to live with you marring her reputation like this!"

When did all these carriages appear?

I must have been so tired from waiting, I didn't hear the Wu family's horse carriages come. Servants were piling goods and luggage onto the carriages.

"Please. I've told you countless times that the betrothal between my son and that girl should have been dissolved. But you were relentless. Now that Yi Huai has made it clear, he does not want to be with her. You both should move on," Madame Wu came out from the gates wearing a shiny cloak.

Master Wu also came out and said, "Old Lady Guo, it's best if you sent her off to a Buddhist Temple to pray for good karma. She's not going to marry anyone in her state."

"You shut your mouth, you old fool! If it wasn't for Mu Dan's family pitying you then you wouldn't be where you are today. Give me back our family's heirloom! I know you people still have it! Here! This? This useless jade ring? Take it back! We don't want to be tied to you evil beings!"

Grandma threw the ring in Master Wu's face. Grandma said it was the ring of promise to wed me and Yi Huai. How could she throw that away!

"You! You-- You dare insult me?" Master Wu rubbed his forehead from where Grandma threw the ring.

"Grandma! Grandma, how could you throw the ring away?" I cried running to pick it up from the ground. It was broken in half. It didn't fit my finger anymore.

"Ai-yah, silly girl! These people are worse than animals! Don't waste your time on them anymore. I said give me back our family's heirloom!" Grandma was so angry that she lunged at Master Wu's collar.

"If you want it then come get it in capital city! Move out of the way!" Master Wu pushed my Grandma to the ground. She fell and yelled out in pain.

"Grandma!"

They were bad people. I saw that now. How could they hurt Grandma?

They are Yi Huai's parents, so does that make Yi Huai bad too?

I helped Grandma up, and asked Master Wu as he entered the carriage, "Is Yi Huai in the capital city?"

He scoffed at me and climbed in without answering.

I have to find Yi Huai.