Reaction! I Can't Agree!...

Wu Yan was stunned...

The girls were stunned too...

Everyone present was stunned...

That shocking declaration echoed through the air for several seconds after it was made, ringing over and over in everyone's ears as though it were being repeated, leaving them feeling as if they were in a dream. It was simply unbelievable...

Looking at the stunned Wu Yan, then at the expressionless, ice-cold Hilif standing ahead, nearly everyone present went mad inside.

Were those two really a match?

It was precisely because of this that these upper-echelon figures, who had seen plenty of grand occasions, had been stunned by Kate's single sentence. It was not that they lacked mental fortitude; the contrast was simply far too great.

They simply could not believe that the famous Ice Princess before them would become the fiancée of Wu Yan, who had only recently risen to prominence.

This was far too sudden!

Yet no matter how sudden it was, since Kate had made such a declaration, it proved that his words were absolutely true. The word of an emperor was law, and that applied equally to the ruler of an empire in the Sparlier World! However, once they realized that this was what Kate had intended to announce by holding this ball, everyone present grew solemn, and the way they looked at Kate became contemplative.

Logically speaking, although Hilif was outstanding and currently a favored figure in the Ai Lu Empire's royal family, summoning the twelve top powers of the entire continent for a ball merely because of her marriage was somewhat excessive.

One had to know that when balls of this nature were held in the past, the matter being announced was at least something like the replacement of an empire's emperor, or one of the three great families being supplanted.