Are You Negotiating or...

Zhang Shen'er's typo earned her the ultimate public humiliation in front of Lu Chengwen.

She had tried to seduce Lu Chengwen, only to find that he was video-calling her relative—her second granduncle.

Zhang Shen'er let out an embarrassed cry and fled like lightning.

Lu Chengwen was awkward. "Uh... I was just... messing around..."

Zhang Henian stood there with his mouth half-open. "I... Lu Chengwen, you... you..."

Lu Chengwen's mind raced. ??

The Zhang Family could have simply clenched its fist and crushed Xiangyun! Yet this old man kept hemming and hawing, wanting to negotiate while refusing to yield.

So he was a branch of the Zhang Family from the Ancient Martial Arts World!

Now it all made sense! Zhang Jiucheng believed that Lu Chengwen had a good relationship with the Jiang Family, so he had been exceptionally friendly toward him, even going so far as to use his own niece and grandniece to tie him down.

And Zhang Henian's attitude clearly meant that the main family had put pressure on him, perhaps even given him a dead-order mission to assist Lu Chengwen!

Otherwise, he would never have lowered himself like this and dragged things out with them for so long.

This old bastard wanted to follow the main family's instructions and let Xiangyun go, while also taking away a huge pile of benefits for himself.

Since he was bound to offend the other three families anyway, and he still didn't know whether Lu Chengwen's side was reliable, if he didn't secure tangible benefits, the Zhang Family's future situation would be very difficult...

But! He had nowhere left to retreat!

Lu Chengwen had basically grasped the Zhang Family's trump card!

Lu Chengwen coughed. "Elder Zhang, men should marry when they come of age, and women should marry when they come of