Hearing his granduncle laugh, Ye Jian smacked his forehead, feeling that something was off with him today. Lin Yiyi's stupidity was famous! How had he started acting stupid along with her?
Gu Mo'er was a direct descendant of the Gu Clan and the newly appointed Grand Commander of the Black Annihilation Army. Throughout the entire eastern region of Central Plains, she was an enormously influential figure!
Even someone like their ancestor would probably only be able to carefully stand by her side as a foil. How could someone like her possibly get involved with a foolish girl like Lin Yiyi?
If the two of them truly had a connection, Ye Jian was confident he could become relatives with the Black Annihilation King!
Ye Jian paid it no mind, assuming the little girl was merely talking nonsense. Hadn't she claimed earlier that she knew the Black Annihilation King? Why had it suddenly become the newly appointed Grand Commander, Gu Mo'er?
Perhaps even that name was something the foolish girl had happened to overhear somewhere.
After all, the Ye Family stood a level above the Lin Family. Otherwise, their ancestor's marriage proposal at the Lin Family would not have gone so smoothly.
The family retainers with considerable strength intentionally or otherwise blocked Lin Yiyi's retreat, while Ye Jian calmly walked step by step to her side.
With a smile at the corner of his lips, he said, "Stop being temperamental. Come home with me, all right?"
An ordinary young lady would have long been captivated by Ye Jian's bearing and would have wished desperately to become his wife. But Lin Yiyi did not think that way.
When she was born, her weak mother had died from exhaustion due to a difficult labor. Her father spent every day drinking, then over a decade