After lunch, Lu Qingqing's grandmother went home and called her eldest daughter-in-law to discuss the matter.
"I've said it wouldn't work, but you insisted on me trying to mediate, and now that we've been rejected, you should find someone else for your niece. There are plenty of eligible bachelors with good conditions to choose from; let her pick."
In the countryside, it's easy for divorced women to find a decent single man to marry, let alone Liu Jingwen, who has never been married and is a college graduate.
In the marriage market, she is considered top-tier, the kind matchmakers would wear out their doorsteps for.
There's no helping it; the gender imbalance is simply too severe.
There are nearly a hundred of age-appropriate young men in their village, especially those born around the nineties, while eligible unmarried women are few and far between. Some girls get matchmade soon after turning twenty.