"I want to get engaged."
During dinner, Howard Thorne suddenly dropped a bombshell. The whole family was stunned, and Tang Xiao'nan almost fell off her stool.
'An engagement?'
'According to the book, Howard Thorne didn't get married until he was well into his late twenties. He had accomplished nothing, had no proper job, and the Thorne family had fallen on hard times, so of course no respectable girl would marry into the family. In the end, with no other options, Phoebe Huxley had to ask a matchmaker to find him an older, unmarried woman.'
'The betrothal gift was two thousand yuan, which wasn't a small sum back then. The woman was quite pretty, but she was incredibly lazy. All she did was eat, sleep, and play cards. By then, Phoebe Huxley's health was already failing, and she couldn't manage her daughter-in-law. Howard Thorne argued with his wife every single day, and the house never knew a moment's peace.'
