When it came to hardware and tools, Wang Yue didn't know the first thing about them, so he could only keep his answer vague.
Yang Cancan, however, knew her inventory inside and out. She immediately started her sales pitch: "If you're doing renovations, you'll probably need..."
As Wang Yue listened to her run through the list, his mind was busy constructing several possible backstories:
Maybe the Yang family focused on "tempering the heart in the red dust," so they sealed her cultivation and sent her into the marketplace for life experience?
Or maybe the branch his second aunt married into lost power during a family struggle and was kicked out?
Or perhaps his second aunt, unwilling to accept her arranged fate, fled the Yang family but refused to return to the Su family that had abandoned her, choosing instead to marry a commoner in Kaifeng?
...
Among all the theories, only the first one was relatively positive; the others were pure "persecution complex" territory.
