Inside Senja's room.

Senja sat timidly on the chair while Elder Dam stood imposingly in front staring down at her.

"Senja, do you know what you have done?" Elder Dam asked her coldly.

"Grandfather, I didn't do anything…" Senja explained meekly. She'd really done nothing except have a conversation with him.

"Grandfather had asked you many times in the past if you had feelings for Tianyao, but every time you denied!" Elder Dam cupped Senja's face and urged her to look at him as his voice turned soft when he continued. "If you really like him, grandfather would do anything to make him marry you instead of Rindy."

**Eh?** Senja looked back at Elder Dam with rapidly blinking eyes. **What did this old man just say?!**

"I have known from the beginning that Xiao Tianyao doesn't have any feelings for Rindy otherwise he wouldn't have dragged their engagement for so long. They would have been married by now if Xiao Tianyao was willing to marry her."

**Oh, almost forgot about the existence of Xiao Tianyao's fiancée!**

Elder Dam sighed in frustration. "He wasn't in the right frame of mind when he accepted Wang Yu's offer to marry Rindy. Grandfather knew that he was expressing his gratitude because Rindy had saved his son, but marriage is a very serious thing. He shouldn't have agreed that easily."

Elder Dam continued muttering, ignoring Senja's expression that had by now turned ugly.

**Ugh! I like him but that doesn't mean I want to marry him right away!!**

"Grandfather, you're over thinking things. It isn't like what you saw… it's just a misunderstanding."

Elder Dam released Senja's face as he pounded hard the table and startled her. "What misunderstanding? You think grandfather is a fool?"

Senja shook her head.

"Grandfather has been observing Xiao Tianyao's behavior when he is around you! He's never acted like that before. Even if he doesn't say it out loud, he cares for you in the way that you don't realize yet."

**Is it like that?!**

"And you!" Elder Dam said sharply while pointing his finger at Senja's nose. "You have the same feeling for him!"

**Well, I do…**

"Had I found him inside your room, I would have probably chopped his hand off. But it was you who sneaked inside his room instead."

**Why is it that the way grandfather has put it makes me look like a bad girl?!**

"It shows that you have feelings for him! Your feelings are mutual! Why must you hide it? Regarding the matter with Rindy, grandfather will find a way out."

Senja stared at her Grandfather. She really didn't know what to say.

"And also, grandfather will make Xiao Tianyao marry you right away, so he won't have a chance to drag this matter for long."

"Grandfather… " Senja tried to talk to her over excited grandfather, but he cut her off.

"Don't worry my child. Grandfather has told you before that, I would be more willing if he married you instead of your vicious stepsister."

Elder Dam had indeed implicitly implied so before.

"You just need to nurture both of your feelings and let the rest be handled by grandfather."

"But, grandfather…"

"Enough!" Elder Dam roared turning Senja mute instantly. "No more denying. The evidence is in front of my eyes, how else do you want to deny? You wouldn't sneak inside his room if you didn't have anything to do with him, and Tianyao wouldn't let you stay inside his room if he didn't like you!"

Senja bit her lips. **Well, that sounds almost true…**

"But, my dear…" Elder Dam stroked Senja's cheek. "Can you both restrain yourselves from doing something inappropriate as such? If rumors spread around, it wouldn't be good for both your images, especially when Xiao Tianyao is still engaged to your sister. Understand?"

Senja nodded helplessly. For the meantime, she would just agree to his suggestion and appease him a little.

"Good." Elder Dam nodded in satisfaction. "You are still very young and lack experience, but why did Xiao Tianyao let such a thing happen?" He grumbled about Xiao Tianyao's lack of propriety.

"I have to talk about this with him."

"Grandfather, it's already late, why don't you talk to him tomorrow?" Senja grabbed Elder Dam's hand to prevent him from storming into Xiao Tianyao's room.

"You know it is this late in the night, yet you went to his room and here you are stopping grandfather from going?!"

**Argh! Couldn't he miss the point…** Senja scratched her head.

"Don't worry. Grandfather won't talk about this for some time." Although Elder Dam had said so, his eyes flickered with a sinister intent as he stomped from Senja's room.

**Well, well, if worse comes to worst, at least I will marry a Prince…**