Long Xiyue and Yan Nujiao both felt their pretty faces grow hot. When others mocked Hu Xiaotian, they felt the sting as though it had been directed at them.
Yan Kui ignored Hu Xiaotian and turned back to Yan Nujiao. "Why are you unwilling?"
"There's already someone in my heart!" Yan Nujiao said. Her temperament was different from that of women of the Central Plains, after all, and she said it openly before everyone.
"Who?" Yan Kui demanded angrily.
Hot blood surged through Hu Xiaotian. He could not bear to watch Yan Kui pressure her like this. To hell with it. I might as well admit it. Long Xiyue seemed to guess his thoughts and took his hand beneath the table. Stepping forward at a time like this would not be wise.
"Hu Xiaotian!" Yan Nujiao declared, utterly fearless.
Everyone fell silent upon hearing Hu Xiaotian's name.
Only then did Hu Xiaotian remember that he was Wu Neng, not Hu Xiaotian.
At the name Hu Xiaotian, a cold gleam of murderous intent suddenly flashed through Ma Xinsheng's eyes.
"You wretched girl! That's utter nonsense!" Yan Kui roared.
"It isn't nonsense! You knew all along. You know perfectly well that he's the only man in this world I love, and that I'll never love anyone else. Why are you still trying to marry me off to someone else? I'm not afraid to tell you-you'd better get ready to be a grandfather!"
Yan Kui flew into a towering rage at this news. He grabbed a wine jug and was about to hurl it at Yan Nujiao, but Qin Boyan stopped him. "Calm down, Chieftain," Qin Boyan said with a smile. "Please calm down."
"You've stripped me of every scrap of dignity!" Yan Kui bellowed.
Yan Nujiao shot Ma Xinsheng a vicious glare,