After that child cried out, the entire banquet hall fell completely silent...
Zhang Tie sighed inwardly. He had never expected certain people to be so blinded by profit that they would use a child to slander him on an occasion like this. The moment the child spoke those words, Zhang Tie did not even need to look to sense the smug sneers flashing across certain faces...
Did those people not know that making him lose face here meant making Old Master Zhang and the entire Zhang Family lose face as well? For the sake of a woman from the Wang Family who did not even exist in reality yet, was it worth it? Did they think that if they trampled him down, they would have a chance?
That child was also a member of the Zhang Family. By seniority, he was even Zhang Tie's grandnephew...
When Old Master Zhang's furious, gloomy gaze shot over like arrows, the parents seated beside the child panicked at once. The child's mother changed color as well. "Xiao Yi, don't talk nonsense..."
"I'm not talking nonsense!" The child stubbornly lifted his head, pointed at Zhang Tie, and said indignantly, "This man is a coward. He was even captured by the Devil Race in the Selnes War Zone. He only survived by groveling for his life..."
Slap! Seeing the old master's gaze that seemed ready to explode, the child's father, seated beside him, felt his scalp go numb and fiercely slapped the child across the face.
"Waa..." The child was stunned by the blow. Covering his face in disbelief, he burst into tears.
The child's crying rang through the banquet hall, now silent as snow, sounding especially shrill...
At this moment, the old master's gaze had turned utterly icy as he swept it over the Zhang