The moment Su Wanning said that, the entire dining room fell silent.
Jiang Lan's mouth dropped open. She stared at her daughter, surprise filling her eyes.
Su Guohua looked as if he'd been struck by lightning. His hand froze in midair, still holding his glass of milk.
He stared at Su Wanning in disbelief.
Was this really his daughter?
The daughter who had always taken his side, who hated Yue Xiaofei more than anyone and called him a "country bumpkin" every chance she got?
Today, she'd openly talked back to him for that brat's sake?!
Since when had she started siding with an outsider?!
Su Guohua's heart sank as a dreadful thought sprang into his mind.
This was bad!
Very bad!
He looked at his daughter. She still wore a trace of her usual haughty air, but there was something protective in her eyes.
Then he looked at Yue Xiaofei across the table.
A whole melodramatic romance played out in Su Guohua's head.
A hero saved a beauty! The girl fell for him! They bickered, then fell in love!
Oh, no!
Had she really fallen for this penniless kid?!
No!
Absolutely not!
Su Guohua's son-in-law might not have to be royalty, but he had to be a wealthy young man from a family of equal standing!
How could he let a penniless kid like Yue Xiaofei marry his daughter?!
If word got out, how could Su Guohua ever show his face again?
No!
He had to nip this in the bud!
His gaze changed at once. The distance in it gave way to suspicion and hostility, as though Yue Xiaofei were a thief trying to steal his precious daughter.
He had to act now!
He had to make his daughter see that she and Yue Xiaofei lived in completely different