"Uh..."
Meng Chao was left stunned and could not help saying, "Isn't it a bit inappropriate to judge your own father like that? In front of me, Uncle Lü praised you to the skies, saying you were his most beloved daughter!"
"He's my most beloved dad too, but feelings are feelings and deals are deals. I can't let him sell me off and then count the money for him!"
Lü Siya leaned close to Meng Chao's ear and explained the inside story. "You don't know this, but ever since my grandfather was seriously injured in the battle against the Monster Mastermind, he returned to the Lü family and has remained in secluded cultivation. His Personal Doctor and cultivation assistants have all been evasive, refusing to tell us how badly he is hurt or whether he can ever return to his peak.
"Now, rumors are flying throughout the Lü family. Many people think the old man might not make it—truthfully, my grandfather fought to the death for Dragon City for over half a century. He has already reached the stage where age has weakened him and his lamp is running dry of oil. The question of a successor should have been considered long ago. His decisive battle with the Monster Mastermind was merely the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"And it isn't just my grandfather. Nearly all the first-generation Supreme Experts of the Nine Great Cultivation Families are facing the problem of dwindling strength and the transfer of power.
"Under such circumstances, capable figures of the second generation, like my father, naturally began to stir.
"To take over the power of Cultivation Families and Super Enterprises from the first-generation Supreme Experts who once commanded the winds and clouds, they need both their elders' approval and the wholehearted submission of