"Thank you for your favor, sir. I am deeply honored. But perhaps you do not know that I already have many wives in Torch Dragon Territory. They have shared hardship and sweetness with me for many years. I treat all my wives equally, with no distinction between high and low—there is no principal wife, equal wife, or concubine among them. All my ladies address one another as sisters. If the precious pearl and jade dew of your household were to marry me, I fear she would be wronged..." Zhang Tie said candidly.
By this time, Zhang Tie was no longer the Zhang Tie he had been in Black Flame City. Back then, he had been young and reckless, his blood hot and vigorous, like a green young mongrel. The sight of a beauty would fill his mind with wild fantasies, and he had even formed an absurd, fleeting romance with a group of girls from the Rose Society. But now, Zhang Tie understood that the women truly precious in a man's life were those with affection in their hearts—not peerless beauties or daughters of great clans. A loving soul outweighed ten thousand pieces of gold; a heartless one was like running water. Even if the treasured daughter of the Zuo Qiu Family were beautiful as a celestial maiden, even if marrying her brought endless benefits, to Zhang Tie, such a woman would still be like the flowing water of a river. Even if it was clear and sweet, he only needed to stand quietly on the bank and admire it...
Moreover, by this day, Zhang Tie no longer needed to use marriage alliances to win over any powerful clan, nor would he wrong the many women in his household for one person.
Although Bai Suxian was of noble birth, her