Soon, Su Mengyao returned to the Su Household.
As one of the Four-Family Alliance, the Su Household occupied an expansive stretch of land, with its compound built against the towering walls of the Inner City.
Seen from afar, the buildings stood in close-packed rows, making quite an impressive sight.
By the time Su Mengyao reached the gates, her usual cool expression had returned.
The guards and maids standing at the entrance bowed when they saw her, each calling out, "Miss Su."
Su Mengyao did not respond and walked straight into the main hall.
Inside sat a middle-aged man dressed in fine robes, his temples graying and his face imposing.
Seeing Su Mengyao return, the man immediately smiled. "You're back, Mengyao. How did it go?"
This man was Su Mengyao's birth father, Su Hongdong, the current head of the Su Household.
Su Mengyao immediately reported the events of the previous night to Su Hongdong, naturally leaving certain things out.
She changed the part about Zhou Chen rescuing her to say that she had been lucky and fled into a beast's lair. Zhang Shaojiu and the other man had been torn apart by the beast, while she had escaped by a stroke of luck.
"What? Such a thing happened? You weren't hurt, were you?" Su Hongdong abruptly rose to his feet, an incomparably terrifying pressure radiating from him. "Your father went to great trouble to arrange your marriage to a young master of the Jiang Family in the Inner City. Nothing must happen to you! You know how high and strict that eldest young master's standards are."
"Father, your daughter is unharmed." Su Mengyao shook her head.
At those words, a trace of complicated emotion flickered in her eyes. This was also why she had said earlier that things between her and