Jin Kingdom
Ruyi Noodle Shop
Shen Yuzhu had been feeling inexplicably irritable lately.
She could not understand it.
She simply had not married yet, but those men swarmed around her like flies.
Right now, for instance, there was one particularly annoying fly standing before her.
"Shen Yuzhu, you're nearly thirty. I'm already doing you a tremendous favor by agreeing to take you as my lawful wife. Don't be ungrateful."
"The shop is closed. Please leave," Shen Yuzhu said coldly, holding her temper in check.
Zeng Jue was immediately displeased by her refusal to show him any respect. "Shen Yuzhu, I've lowered myself to come here and propose in person. What more do you want?"
Who knew what had suddenly gotten into the Shen family? They had actually made a rule that no Marriage Contract could be exchanged without the bride's or groom's consent.
What a nuisance.
Seeing that he refused to leave, Shen Yuzhu lost her temper. She grabbed a rolling pin from beside her and swung it at him. "Are you leaving or not? If you won't leave, don't blame me for getting rough!"
Zeng Jue backed away repeatedly when she suddenly flew into a rage.
"Look at yourself!" he accused. "Do you look anything like a proper young lady now? You're nothing but a shrew!"
"I'm the only one who wouldn't look down on you and would still be willing to marry you, yet you're so ungrateful-"
"Urgh!"
The moment the words left his mouth, a large hand clamped around his head.
Wu Lifeng gripped the crown of his head, his voice carrying a barely perceptible edge of menace and ruthlessness. "Here to cause trouble?"
It was the first time anyone had seized Zeng Jue's head as though he were a doll in a claw machine. Worse, it