Though Ruan Jinling was graceful and open by nature, she was still a woman who had never experienced such matters. Hearing her own sect master speak of her affairs with Yang Chen so explicitly, how could she not be embarrassed? Her face flushed scarlet, and for a moment, she did not know how to respond.
Seeing Ruan Jinling's appearance, Ye Xu stroked his chin, and he almost had the measure of things. At the very least, from how things looked now, Ruan Jinling did not dislike Yang Chen at all.
That made sense. Beautiful women loved heroes; it was perfectly normal.
Ye Xu slowly said, "Jinling, perhaps you do not know this, but among the people from the great forces who have come to me to propose marriage for you, there may not be countless numbers, but there certainly have not been few. Whether in terms of influence or strength, none of them were lacking, and the geniuses under them were also outstanding. Yet I politely refused them all. Do you know why?"
Ruan Jinling drew a long breath. "Jinling does not know."
Ye Xu said, "Because they were not qualified enough. Jinling, to put it more realistically and more bluntly, the Eastern Emperor Sect raised you so that one day, you would repay the Eastern Emperor Sect. But you are, after all, the Saintess of our Eastern Emperor Sect, the face of our Eastern Emperor Sect. It is not as though just anyone who wishes to marry you can do so. Those first-rate geniuses outside are still not qualified."
There were many first-rate geniuses, but there was only one Saintess of the Eastern Emperor Sect.
Ye Xu could not possibly fail to calculate even such a deal.
"To marry you, one must show real capability. My test was to