At noon.
Profound Gold City, outer district, Chu Family courtyard, outside the main gates.
Chu Youren stood at the entrance with a group of guards, blocking Lin Bairu and his party.
"My sister will never marry Lin Liyun!"
"Take a look at how far your Lin Family has fallen. We're not of matching status—how do you still have the nerve to come knocking at our door?"
"Take your things and get lost already."
If Zhong Sanxiao had not been present, Chu Youren's words would never have been so polite.
Lin Wuhu stepped forward and shouted, "The newly appointed head of my Lin Residence has come today, not to see some junior like you. Call Chu Xuanhe out at once! If he wishes to break off the marriage, let him say it to our faces! Then we shall see who is truly faithless, shameless, and without skin!"
"The new head? Heh heh." Chu Youren snorted. Seeing that the Lin Family group refused to heed his warning, he quickly lost what little patience he had and rebuked them disdainfully, "Your Lin Family truly has become more and more pathetic. You made a powerless scholar your family head, and someone like him thinks he deserves to meet my uncle? If I were you, I'd obediently crawl off to some backwater town and cling to life as a petty local landlord. Stop coming here to make fools of yourselves."
Lin Bairu's face had already darkened at such mockery. Though indignation roiled within him, he knew that forget dealing with Chu Youren—even any random servant of the Chu Family would be more than a match for him.
But as the head of a family, he could not remain unmoved while being humiliated and berated by a junior. For the Lin Family's dignity, he had