After Qingyunzi finished speaking, he heard a series of teeth-grinding sounds and could not help turning his head. Dugu Feng was gritting his teeth in fury.
"What's wrong with you?"
Qingyunzi asked with concern. This fellow was going to be his future brother-in-law; there could not be anything wrong with his head.
"This is infuriating! Truly infuriating!"
Dugu Feng's chest heaved with rage. That old bastard was truly detestable—his own daughter could not get married, so he simply dragged in some unlucky fellow to marry her?
And that unlucky fellow just happened to be him?
Fuck, he had never felt this stifled in his entire life.
"Kid, do you want to see the world outside? As long as you let me go, I'll take you out of here."
"This patch of heaven and earth is far too small. I'll take you to see a broader heaven and earth."
Dugu Feng sat beside Qingyunzi and began sweet-talking him. He absolutely could not sit around waiting for death, and he absolutely could not remain here.
Cultivators' marriages were different from mortals' marriages. Mortals could do whatever they wanted after getting married; even if they ran away afterward, nothing would happen.
But cultivators were different. Once they married, their karma threads, marriage threads, and destiny threads would all become entangled. By then, it would be too late for regrets.
Marriage meant truly being tied together, and the consequences were terrifying.
"Not going. I think this place is quite nice."
"Besides, I'm already twenty. I'm an adult. Don't think you can fool me. You just want to trick me into letting you go because you don't want to marry Saintess Sister, right?"
"Give it up. I will never betray Saintess Sister."
Qingyunzi shot Dugu Feng a sidelong glance, his gaze seeming to say that