As Liu Changxu's eldest legitimate daughter, Jiao'er shared the deepest bond with him. Once she had grown up, he had already given considerable thought to her marriage.
However, marrying his daughter into some supposedly great cultivation clan as a means of forging an alliance had never been part of Liu Changxu's plans.
Although his own marriage to Li Zhenxin had also resulted from an alliance, and their relationship was very loving, he could not guarantee that his daughter would marry equally well.
As for securing advantages through marriage or winning benefits for the Lineage, Liu Changxu did not place much importance on such things.
Liu Changxu had always believed that although marriage alliances were the best means of improving relations between Lineages, a Lineage ultimately had to rely on itself to become powerful.
It was precisely because of this reasoning that Liu Changxu was not particularly impressed when Li Zhenxin told him that Jiao'er's lover belonged to the Li Household!
Seeing Li Zhenxin's rather smug expression, Liu Changxu felt a flicker of displeasure!
He realized that his decision not to intervene in their son Liu Han's marriage had given the four women the wrong impression. They thought they could make decisions about the children's marriages themselves, without considering that his lack of intervention did not mean he would not keep an eye on such matters. As the head of the household, he had to retain the final say over his children's marriages. Thus, he spoke to Li Zhenxin very sternly:
"Xin'er, what sort of man is this fellow Jiao'er is in love with? Tell me about him!"
Only when she saw her husband looking at her so sternly did Li Zhenxin, who had been feeling very pleased that her daughter had managed to find shelter beneath the great tree of