After learning that Ye Wu had died in the Lower Realm, the Primordial God Clan convened an emergency lineage meeting.
"What! Ye Wu is dead? How did he die? Didn't he go to the Lower Realm to find Ye Qingcheng?"
"How could anyone in the Lower Realm be strong enough to kill Ye Wu? His abilities might not stand out in the Ye Family, but surely he wouldn't get killed by someone from the Lower Realm?"
"Honestly, I don't believe it either. If someone in the Lower Realm really has that kind of strength, we'd best eliminate them early if we can't put them to use."
"Exactly. If another lineage discovers and recruits them, it'll only pile snow atop the frost of our Primordial God Clan's already awkward predicament."
In response to these questions, Ye Feng, the lineage head, slowly said, "I'm certain that Ye Wu is indeed dead, and that he died at the hands of Ye Qingcheng's so-called husband."
As the lineage head, he did not acknowledge the arrangements Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng had made privately.
Marriage was a serious matter. Only a union recognized by the Ye Family counted.
"May I ask, lineage head, is Qingcheng willing to return to our Ye Family?" an elder asked.
Ye Feng shook his head. "Ye Wu never even saw Ye Qingcheng. Even though I left a strand of divine sense inside him, I had no way of knowing."
"Ye Chengtian, your daughter certainly knows how to make trouble for the lineage!" Someone turned a disgruntled gaze toward the couple seated to one side.
Ye Chengtian was Ye Qingcheng's biological father, but he had little say within the Primordial God Clan.
Faced with the elders' complaints and barbed remarks, no matter how indignant he felt, he could only shatter