"He stole two."
His voice had grown shrill and warped with excitement. Combined with his chubby, pancake-like face and the deliberately wide-eyed, teasingly comical expression he wore, he looked
really asking for a beating!
"Two?" Lu Tianyu looked utterly dumbfounded. If I didn't need something from him, I would've punched him already. Does he think being fat means he can't feel pain?
"That's right. Two." Gongshu Yuan nodded with utmost seriousness.
"How did it become two?" Lu Tianyu asked in confusion. "Isn't Miss Cui Xiaoxin your sister-in-law?"
"Miss Song Chenxi is your sister-in-law too." Gongshu Yuan's tone was decisive.
"Impossible." Lu Tianyu immediately rejected Gongshu Yuan's claim. "In the past thousand years, no man from any family has ever been able to marry a woman from both the Cui and Song Lineages. Not even the imperial family has such a precedent. My brother—my brother's identity is special. It's even more impossible for him."
Lu Tianyu had originally wanted to say, My brother is a dragon, but then it would be even less likely that the Cui and Song Lineages would marry their two girls to him. Besides, those girls were Cui Xiaoxin and Song Chenxi, dazzling figures hailed throughout the empire as the "bright moons."
One bright moon was already more than enough. What family could have two moons rise over it at the same time?
Wouldn't they be illuminated to death?
"What? You're unwilling?" Gongshu Yuan asked, eyeing Lu Tianyu sideways.
"No. Why would I be unwilling? It's just—it's just impossible." Lu Tianyu was still young, but having lived in Tiandu for so long, he was fairly familiar with the various relationships and rules there. He knew how difficult it was to marry women from the Cui and Song Lineages. Even if those two Lineages had fallen from power,