Hu Xuan wasn't the only one left stunned by the slap. The disciples watching from all around were just as dumbfounded. This was the first time they'd realized Lin Letian could be so ruthless.
"Lin Letian!!" Hu Xuan shrieked once she recovered from her shock. Her face had turned ashen, and she glared fiercely at Lin Letian.
"Get lost! I don't want to see you. How did I never realize how disgusting you were?" Lin Letian snapped without mercy, his eyes full of disgust.
"You... you..."
It was the first time Hu Xuan had ever seen Lin Letian treat her this way, and she couldn't accept it. Before, whenever Lin Letian saw her, he would smile involuntarily and look for a chance to get close to her. Now he'd not only berated her repeatedly, but even hit her. He'd changed so much she barely recognized him.
"Lin Letian, do you really think you can bully the Hu Household just because you're a good-for-nothing who's lost his backing?" Several people burst out of the crowd. They were all prodigies from the Hu Household.
"I'm a good-for-nothing? Then what does that make you, since you can't even beat me? Green-haired turtles?" Lin Letian sneered, his eyes bloodshot.
"What did you say?"
The Hu Household prodigies who'd rushed out all turned grim. They hadn't expected that even with so many of them, they still couldn't scare Lin Letian off—and that he'd dare mock them to their faces.
"Saintess, should we teach him a lesson?" The few of them looked at Hu Xuan with grim expressions.
Hu Xuan covered her burning cheek and stared at the transformed Lin Letian. "If you apologize to me now, I can let you off this once."
The disciples gathered around exchanged thoughtful looks. He'd slapped her, yet given