The Substitute Groom Refuses to Leave novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: A Speech at Last
Shumo asked for the household's honored seat and received the cabbage chair.
Mingzhong carried it across the courtyard without irony.
It was sturdy, comfortable, and currently available.
The cousin looked at the kitchen scratches along its legs.
"I meant my proper place," he said.
Yunting remained beside Shuqiao.
"The steward has found you a chair," the general said.
"Please stop making him carry it."
Shumo sat.
The retired soldiers watched with the attentive interest of men who'd enjoyed the chair themselves.
Shuqiao was angry enough to feel perfectly calm.
His cousin had been offered hospitality, tea, and several opportunities to leave without a spectacle.
He kept mistaking those choices for a negotiation over somebody else's marriage.
Shuqiao wouldn't protect him from the next answer.
"The original arrangement named me," Shumo said.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Substitute Groom Refuses to Leave are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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