[Half a day later, the doors of the Jiang Family's reception hall slowly opened.]
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["Jixue!"]
[Jiang Jixue's Husband hid in the distance, gazing over with eyes that had nearly worn themselves out with longing.]
[That half day had been sheer torment for Jiang Jixue's Husband. As time passed, the words he had used to reassure himself,
and his trust in Jiang Jixue... gradually crumbled.]
[Had his own life not been at stake, Jiang Jixue's Husband would have charged over and erupted long ago.]
["Half a day! Half a day!"]
[Jiang Jixue's Husband was utterly despairing. After so long, if anything really was going to happen, it would already have happened.]
[At the thought of his beloved Dao companion, whom even he had never touched, being toyed with by an alchemist outside the family, Jiang Jixue's Husband felt his heart practically bleed.]
["Hm?"]
[Under Jiang Jixue's Husband's gaze, you walked out of the hall alone.]
[Jiang Jixue, meanwhile, remained seated alone in the seat of honor.]
["Probably... probably nothing happened..."]
[Jiang Jixue's Husband gradually calmed down, and reason reclaimed the high ground.]
[If Jiang Jixue had truly shared any intimacy with you during that half day,]
[the scene now should not have looked like this.]
[Even if she were not nestled in your arms, Jiang Jixue should at least have personally seen you out.]
["Jixue was probably discussing something important with Pill Master Wang. That must be why she sealed off the hall..."]
[Jiang Jixue's Husband steadied himself, finding a suitable explanation for the scene before him.]
[The Jiang Family's situation was far from stable. The other two late-stage Grand True Persons eyed the position of family head like hungry tigers.]
[Jiang Jixue surely had a strategy to deal with them. Most likely, that was what she had discussed during