Elsewhere.
Seeing Yue Xiaofei about to leave, Xu Yiming hurried after him, taking the steps two at a time.
"Brother Yue! Big Brother Yue! My dearest brother! Wait for me!"
Xu Yiming ran up beside Yue Xiaofei, panting.
"You... you were so damn cool back there!"
He simply couldn't find the words to describe how he had felt.
A refusal!
A clean, decisive refusal!
Faced with the staggering temptation of two young ladies from the Cloud Family and the Flower Family-one proposing a marriage alliance, the other offering herself to him-Yue Xiaofei had turned them down without so much as blinking!
That line, "I don't need women to shelter me from the storms," had been commanding to the core!
Even now, thinking back on it made Xu Yiming's blood surge.
Now that was a real man!
Power, beautiful women-in the eyes of someone truly strong, they were nothing but passing clouds!
"Aren't you afraid they'll lash out in humiliation and turn against you?" Xu Yiming asked in a low voice, still feeling a little shaken.
After all, they were the young ladies of two elite families. Anyone would struggle to swallow such a public humiliation.
Yue Xiaofei kept walking and merely said calmly, "They won't."
"Why not?"
Xu Yiming didn't understand.
"Because they're fundamentally the same kind of person. When overriding interests are at stake, personal feelings mean nothing." Yue Xiaofei saw the matter clearly.
Yun Nongyue and Hua Jieyu had made those astonishing moves not because they liked him so much, but because their families needed him as a pawn.
Now that he had refused, they would certainly feel embarrassed and frustrated, but they would never truly make him their mortal enemy over it.
That wouldn't serve their interests.
The best way to handle a powerful man they couldn't