Freewheeling King's Manor.
Located on the western side of Qian Heaven City, it covered several hundred li, its towers soaring high and its grandeur imposing.
Two white jade qilin stood before the manor gates, lifelike in every detail. Above the vermilion gates hung a gilded plaque bearing the four flamboyant characters, "Freewheeling King's Manor." It was said to have been inscribed personally by the reigning monarch of the Great Qian Kingdom.
At this moment, in an exquisite flower hall in the manor's rear courtyard, Tantai Xue sat in a chair, wiping away tears like pear blossoms bathed in rain.
The swelling on her face had mostly subsided, but several faint finger marks could still be seen.
The Tantai Clan's medicinal pills were highly effective. External injuries healed in less than half a day, but wounds of the heart were far harder to mend.
"Brother Xuanyu, you have to stand up for me!"
Tantai Xue's voice was thick with tears, her eyes brimming with grievance and venom.
"That bitch Tantai Yue relied on the old ancestor's favor and beat me the moment she came back! Right in front of so many people, she slapped me five times—five times! When had I, Tantai Xue, ever suffered such humiliation in all my life?"
The more she spoke, the more agitated she became, until even her voice went shrill.
"And that wild man she brought back, that Li Qingshan—he's just a Rogue Cultivator at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm, yet he dared strike someone in the Tantai Clan! What the hell is he? Does he deserve to step through the gates of my Tantai Clan?"
Li Xuanyu sat in a grandmaster's chair opposite her, holding a cup of tea as he listened with a calm expression.
He was still dressed in white