"W-what?"
Li Houcheng stood rooted to the spot. After a moment, he said earnestly, "Zhongshuang, I know you're still angry with your father, but you mustn't joke about the Little Ancestor."
What an exalted figure the Little Ancestor was.
This joke wasn't funny at all. If the Little Ancestor heard it, even though she had always valued Li Zhongshuang, Li Zhongshuang would certainly come to no good end.
As the head of a lineage counted among the Five Surnames and Seven Great Clans, Li Houcheng knew the tempers of those mighty figures above all too well. Countless cultivators and lineages throughout history had displeased those great figures with a single wrong word and been executed or exterminated wholesale.
Although Li Houcheng wasn't a True Lord, and hadn't even cultivated the sha ingestion gang devoration path, being merely an outer dao golden core cultivator, he knew that his own Little Ancestor's temper was hardly good by the standards of the True Lords. To put it less kindly, she belonged among those with the very worst tempers.
Li Zhongshuang's expression remained unchanged. She said evenly, "Why would I make such a joke? If you don't believe me, Family Head, you can send someone to Sun-Moon Cliff tomorrow to see for yourself. Young Master Zhang is staying there now."
"If there's nothing else, Family Head, I'll return to my room to cultivate."
With that, Li Zhongshuang left without waiting to see Li Houcheng's reaction.
Inside the courtyard of Li Manor.
The smile froze on Li Houcheng's face. Only long after Li Zhongshuang had left did it gradually fade, leaving him utterly dazed.
He already believed seventy percent of what Li Zhongshuang had said. As for why he couldn't believe the remaining thirty percent...
It made no sense. None whatsoever. No, there wasn't a