Su Shengnan ignored him completely, instead staring at the Su Family's four elders with a cold smile. In her eyes, Su Liang was nothing more than bait. She was waiting for the big fish to bite.
The four elders exchanged glances and nodded to one another. Then Su Changfeng stood and said coldly, "Su Liang has shown disrespect toward the family head and is suspected of coveting her position. Under our family rules, he must receive twenty strokes of the rattan cane, then be expelled from the Su Family."
"What are you waiting for, then?" Su Shengnan snapped. "Enforce the family rules immediately. The first elder will administer the punishment himself."
"Yes, Family Head," Su Changfeng replied with a wry smile. Then he shouted, "Bring the rattan cane..."
Someone immediately answered and hurried off.
Now Su Liang was getting scared too. Was this woman really going through with it?
He turned to Su Changyuan and pleaded anxiously, "Father, save me... She's using her position to settle a personal grudge..."
At that moment, Su Changyuan could no longer sit still. He had never expected Su Shengnan to make an example of his son. As the boy's father, how could he hide like a coward?
He slammed the table with a bang, stood up, and snorted at Su Shengnan. "Su Shengnan, oh, Su Shengnan. Just because I call you the family head, do you really think I'm afraid of you?"
Then he rolled his eyes and declared with supreme arrogance, "If you insist on driving him out of the Su Family, I'll leave with him."
"Fine..." Su Shengnan replied immediately.
"Uh..." Su Changyuan, who had been brimming with arrogance and had not taken Su Shengnan seriously at all, was dumbstruck. *I was only saying it. How could you actually take me at