Sure enough, Liu Duoye finally withdrew her astonished expression and asked coldly, "You with the compound surname Sikong—how could Willow Leaf Holy Manor have an outsider as a son-in-law?"
Her voice turned slightly icy, as though she were interrogating Sikong Jing...
But in truth, Liu Duoye was not interrogating him. She simply found it strange.
Su Yuexian had clearly said that Willow Leaf Holy Manor now had rules forbidding daughters from marrying out and outsiders from marrying in, yet this young man with the compound surname Sikong claimed to be Willow Leaf Holy Manor's son-in-law. That was very strange.
Either Su Yuexian had lied to her, or the Black-Clothed Youth before her was lying to her.
And Liu Duoye trusted Su Yuexian more...
Then the Black-Clothed Youth before her was very likely an enemy of Willow Leaf Holy Manor—and a terrifyingly powerful one at that—who wanted to trick something out of her spirit-image. That was why her tone had turned so incomparably stern.
At this question, Sikong Jing slowly raised his head...
The corner of his mouth twitched slightly as he replied in a low voice, "Willow Leaf Holy Manor has always been shameless. They also love to bully the weak and fear the strong, so when they see enormous benefits, naturally an outsider son-in-law will appear."
Saying such words before the ancestor of Willow Leaf Holy Manor herself—if anyone else had been around, they would surely have thought he was courting death.
Yet Sikong Jing was not afraid in the slightest. He was merely stating a fact.
More importantly, he now wanted to know what Liu Duoye had done to Su Yuexian. Hopefully it was not like the Blood Charm Demon Cat's designs on Hua Meixi back then—wanting to seize her body outright or something of that sort.
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