Life and Death, Asking Fate

"Hold on..."

Hu Ma was stunned as he listened. "What was that you just said?"

The Zhou family's representative paused, his expression unchanged as he smiled. "Of course, your marriage to my daughter."

"She may be the fourth-ranked daughter of our Yang Ming Zhou Family, but that's only because I was young when I devoted myself to learning my craft. I refused to break my yang essence, married late, and so she was born after the daughters of several of my younger brothers."

"But in terms of status, she is the legitimate eldest daughter of our Yang Ming Zhou Family. How could she be unworthy of a descendant of your Talisman Suppressing Hu Family?"

"..."

Hu Ma was so annoyed by his words that he laughed. "If she's the legitimate eldest daughter of the Yang Ming Zhou Family, you can just arrange her marriage with a single sentence?"

The Zhou family's representative sighed. "She's a grown woman, and you spirited her away to Old Yin Mountain. She didn't even spend New Year at home. Now that you've come down from the mountain, she's accompanied you every step of the way, traveling by day and sleeping under the stars. You've crossed half the martial world together. What's done is done. Don't you dare deny responsibility."

Why did this reasoning sound so much like Second Master's?

Hu Ma understood what he meant. To argue over this would be disrespectful to Fourth Miss Zhou, so he simply dropped the subject.

He tilted his head slightly, sizing up the Zhou family's representative. "Then what did you mean by ascending to immortality?"

Zhou Zhiming, the Zhou family's representative, clearly wanted to say more about Fourth Miss Zhou. But after Hu Ma asked that, even he fell silent.

Then he met Hu Ma's eyes and said