"Great-Grandfather, I was in the middle of refining pills. What's so urgent..."
Yao Yue stepped through the doorway, saw an unfamiliar young man sitting behind the table, and broke off.
She looked Li Chen up and down.
She had just ruined a batch of third-tier pills at the Alchemist Association and was already in a foul mood. Being summoned back in such a hurry had only piled irritation upon irritation.
The man before her looked about her age and wore ordinary clothes, yet he was allowed to sit opposite her great-grandfather.
"Who are you?"
Li Chen glanced at her, in no hurry to answer.
Yao Yue frowned and was about to ask again when footsteps sounded outside the hall.
Yao Ye arrived. Upon entering, she first glanced at Li Chen, then at Jia Xingtian, before finally settling her gaze on the row of Soul Tools on the table.
"Great-Grandfather," Yao Ye said, far more composed than Yao Yue.
Jia Xingtian leaned back in his chair, his gaze passing over his two granddaughters.
"This man has come to propose marriage. He wants to marry both of you."
The hall fell silent for a moment.
"What? You want to marry both of us?" Yao Yue's voice rose. "Who do you think you are? Who said we'd marry you..."
"Yao Yue," Yao Ye interrupted.
Yao Yue swallowed the rest of her words, but continued glaring at Li Chen.
Yao Ye withdrew her gaze and looked at Jia Xingtian. "What do you think, Great-Grandfather?"
"I have no particular opinion." Jia Xingtian leaned back in his chair. "You can discuss it and decide for yourselves."
Yao Ye fell silent for a while.
"What's your cultivation level?"
"Enough."
After so many years as the Jia Ma Empire's eldest princess, she knew that when someone spoke so