Xiao Chuo glared coldly at Dugu Yan, but Xiao Huang couldn't ignore his aunt.
So Xiao Huang rose with a smile and said warmly to Xiao Chuo, "Your nephew hasn't seen you in more than ten years, Aunt. Have you been well?"
Xiao Chuo replied coldly, "Thanks to your Xiao Family, I'm still alive."
Xiao Huang rubbed his nose and looked at Xiao Chuo with some puzzlement, unable to understand why his aunt treated him this way too.
Xiao Chuo had married into the Dugu Clan nearly twenty years ago. At the time, Xiao Huang had been only a child, so he didn't know why the Xiao Family had chosen such a bottom-ranked clan among the Six Great Clans as their in-laws—and why they had chosen a mediocrity like Dugu Yan.
In Xiao Huang's view, the Runan Shangguan Clan had a long history and considerable strength. They would have made a perfect match for the Xiao Family.
Besides, the previous generation of the Runan Shangguan Clan had produced many talented and outstanding figures, all of whom were stronger than Dugu Yan.
As Xiao Huang remembered it, when he was little, his aunt had treated him very well and spoiled him.
But after Xiao Chuo married into the Dugu Clan, she never once returned to the Xiao Family. Xiao Huang had no idea why his aunt had changed so much.
Even so, Xiao Huang still felt deeply grateful to her. As a child, he had been raised as one of the candidates to inherit the family leadership, and his education had been exceptionally harsh and rigorous.
Sometimes the intense training had made young Xiao Huang cry from exhaustion, but his father had paid him no mind. The family elders responsible for teaching him martial arts had only trained him with even