(╰_╯) Smack!
A crisp slap rang out.
The woman squeezed her eyes shut the instant he raised his hand, yet the pain on her face never came.
When she opened her eyes and looked, Leng Tianqiong's own face had swollen instead.
He had slapped himself!
"Alas!" He heaved a heavy sigh, sat back down in the chair, and said, "Are you satisfied now? Did you have to make it sound so ugly!"
"You think I'm willing to lower my voice and humble myself before Second Senior's branch and the others?"
"Our Leng Family has no backer to speak of, and the old master was biased. If Ancestress hadn't refused to let the rule of the legitimate eldest line inheriting the family be thrown into disorder, do you think this family would have fallen to us?"
"No, Tianqiong, what's the point of saying that? The old master has been dead for ages. Why are you still worrying so much about a dead man? Isn't this family yours to decide?" Liu Suwan planted both hands on her hips, hating iron for not becoming steel as she spoke.
She had no idea how many times she had heard these words. Whether a dead man had been biased or not, what did that have to do with you being useless?
Who would have thought Leng Tianqiong would say something shocking instead? "What if the old master isn't dead?"
"Not dead!?" Liu Suwan gave a cold laugh, thinking it was another lie he had made up to dodge the issue. "Do you take me, Liu Suwan, for a fool? On the day your family's old master was buried, almost the entire Immortal Island, and even people from several nearby Immortal Islands, came to pay their respects!"
"And you're telling me he isn't dead?"
"Who would