As it turned out, roughly half a month earlier, Protector Wu had finally reached the end of his patience with Yun Shan's stalling.
And so, the plan Xiao Lin and Yun Shan had discussed finally went into motion.
The initial plan was quite simple.
Hadn't Nalan Yanran visited the Xiao Household during the second decline in Xiao Yan's cultivation and told him to prepare his dowry at home while she prepared the betrothal gifts, so that he could eventually marry into the Nalan Family?
The plan Xiao Lin and Yun Shan had discussed revolved around that very matter.
First, Yun Shan publicly stepped forward to support Nalan Yanran's decision.
After all, whatever was said about something like this in private did not really matter.
To everyone else, it was merely a private matter between the young couple, Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran.
But once Yun Shan stepped forward, everything changed.
In fact, even if it had not been Yun Shan, the significance would have changed as soon as any elder of Xiao Yan or Nalan Yanran spoke up about it.
Between two children, it could be dismissed as a joke.
But once their elders became involved, it amounted to a public confirmation!
And Yun Shan's status was particularly special.
Not only was he the former sect master of the Misty Cloud Sect, but he was also the grandmaster of both Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran!
In certain respects, his words carried even greater authority than those of their parents!
Once he acknowledged the arrangement, practically no one else could change it.
After all, in the eyes of outsiders, ever since Nalan Yanran became Yun Yun's disciple, the Nalan Family and the Xiao Household had held roughly equal standing within the Misty Cloud Sect.
Moreover, both families shared deep ties with