What Lou Jie and the other three found even harder to understand was...
Nothing major had happened at all. He had snatched someone's daughter merely because he did not want Su Old Devil's granddaughter to be punished.
That was simply the behavior of a fool. Someone was punishing a member of their own family—what the hell did it have to do with you?
Yet they did not know that, setting aside the fact that Su Yuexi was Sikong Jing's wife, even if she had merely been a passerby, so long as she had helped them under those circumstances, Sikong Jing would still have saved her.
It was just that he might not have used such an extreme method.
In any case, Sikong Jing would never allow anyone to suffer an undeserved punishment because of him.
Inside the Judgment Tower, Sikong Jing naturally paid no heed to what Lou Jie and the others thought. He looked again at Su Yuexi and said, "The next one who comes may be Ye Wukui, and for now, I don't want them to recognize me."
As he said this, Sikong Jing's brow furrowed slightly.
The reason he had refused to see Liu Shitian was not to deliberately provoke anyone. It was because Liu Shitian had seen him back in the Azure Dragon Small Domain. For the time being, Sikong Jing did not want to expose his husband-and-wife relationship with Su Yuexi. He needed to wait for another opportunity...
To this, Su Yuexi replied, "Or perhaps Father and Mother will come?"
Sikong Jing chuckled softly at that, then said with some anticipation, "That would indeed work. I'll only let you go back when Father and Mother come—but they'll also have to bring a guarantee that none of you will be punished."
"In any case, let's first