"My Dai Family's face isn't so easily played with!"

To the side.

Dai Yue, who had been sitting there with an arrogant face and a haughty air, was also stunned, asking subconsciously, "You, what do you mean by this?"

"I came to Star Luo City to propose marriage, but I am not proposing to you, Your Highness the Princess."

"Then you..."

Chen Fan paused, stood up, and pointed toward a corner of the grand hall. "I intend to propose to them!"

As he pointed, almost everyone's gaze shifted over, and they were instantly dumbfounded!

In that spot, a few palace maids were carefully weaving between the tables, carrying wine pots and fruit platters.

Among them were two young girls with similar features and slender figures, their heads bowed and their movements slightly clumsy, clearly having been called in to help at the last minute.

They wore the attire of palace maids, yet there was a temperament between their brows that set them apart from the ordinary servants.

"These... are they the two from the Xu Family of the dukedom?"

"The Xu Family? Is that the fallen Xu Family of the dukedom?"

"Wait, how did they get involved with the Seven Kill Sect?"

The ministers whispered among themselves, their eyes filled with shock and confusion.

The Xu Family?

It seemed the Xu Family had been a dukedom a hundred years ago, but after a period of decline, they had even fallen to the level of a commoner household.

Even the head of the Xu Family was merely a small official who barely met the threshold for the civil service, and his soul power level was only that of a sixty-something-level Soul Emperor.

For the Seven Kill Sect to pass up the eldest princess and choose the daughters of the Xu Family instead—wasn't that just purely meant to disgust Dai Li?

Sure enough!

When the ministers realized this and looked back at Dai Li, the smile on his face had completely frozen. "Sect Master Chen, you... you must be joking, right?"

"What do you think?"

The smile on Dai Li's face slowly faded.

He had originally thought Chen Fan was joking, but upon hearing this counter-question, his heart sank.

Empress Zhu, standing to the side, also looked rather grim, though she remained silent; she had likely never encountered such a scene before.

"You..."

Dai Yue, young and hot-headed, saw her expression shift from stunned to incredulous, and then from incredulous to humiliated. "What do you mean!?"

This show-off actually dared to look down on her!?

What level was he!?

And he was looking down on her?

"Chen Fan, explain yourself. What, what do you mean by this?"

Dai Yue gritted her teeth, her voice trembling.

Chen Fan withdrew his finger and said indifferently, "Exactly what I said."

"I came to Star Luo City, and I did indeed come to propose."

"But I never said I was proposing to the Imperial Family."

As soon as these words were spoken, a collective gasp echoed through the grand hall.

That was right!

From beginning to end, the Sect Master of the Seven Kill Sect had never personally admitted that he had come to seek the hand of the eldest princess!

The rumors had always claimed that "the new Sect Master of the Seven Kill Sect is coming to Star Luo City to propose," but they had never specified "proposing to the Imperial Family," had they?

It was they themselves who had assumed, based on their own preconceptions, that the Seven Kill Sect Master must have come to Star Luo City for the eldest princess!

Empress Zhu's face turned from red to white. She opened her mouth to retort, but realized she had no way to argue.

Because what Chen Fan said was the truth.

"You all wished upon yourselves the belief that I came to marry the eldest princess, and then you narcissistically laid out all sorts of conditions."

At this point, Chen Fan paused, a playful smile appearing on his face. "Unfortunately, I have no fortune to enjoy these conditions of yours."

"It seems these blessings can only be enjoyed by the Clear Sky Sect."

Tang Xiao had been sitting to the side, enjoying the drama, but as Chen Fan's tone shifted, his face darkened. Just as he was about to lash out, he was held back by Tang Wei at his side.

Because...

At this moment, Dai Li's expression had completely darkened!

As the dignified Emperor of Star Luo, he had been slapped in the face in public; how could he swallow this insult?

"Sect Master Chen, do you know what you are saying?"

"The face of the Dai Family is not something you can toy with so easily!"