The moment he said that, the entire crowd grew even more excited. Every onlooker widened their eyes, while the young people jeered and laughed without restraint. Clearly, they all knew what trick Zhao Xie was about to play—and they were eagerly awaiting it!
"Shameless!" Jiang Meng's face turned purple at his words. She grabbed Li Tianming's hand and said, "Come on, don't lower yourself to this shameless scoundrel..."
Before she could finish, Li Tianming ignored her. Amid the crowd's laughter, he said directly to Zhao Xie, "You said it yourself: whoever can't measure up gets out of Myriad Evils Dreamsource. I came from Tai Yu, so I can accept getting out of here—as long as I take my wife with me. But if you lose and can't come back here, that'd be a huge loss for you."
"A true man's word weighs as much as the Nine Cauldrons!" As Zhao Xie spoke, he placed particular emphasis on the word "man," drawing another wave of flattery.
"Zhao One-Pillar! Zhao One-Pillar!"
"Jiang Bunny belongs to Zhao One-Pillar!"
Some people even joined in with such nonsense, nearly making Jiang Meng's soul explode with fury.
"You..."
She knew that if they avoided the fight today, or lost, there would be no end to this kind of humiliation in the future. Even marriage would not change that. The only way to make these people shut up was to win the bet.
Thus, at this point, Jiang Meng said nothing more. Instead, she tightly gripped Li Tianming's palm, letting his large hand envelop her slender one... Then she suddenly realized that his palm was frighteningly hard. Looking down, she saw that his left hand was covered in black hexagonal scales.
What a rough, hard hand!
While she was still lost in thought, Zhao Xie took advantage