"You!" After Xiao Yan's merciless tongue-lashing in front of everyone, Nalan Yanran's expression darkened. However, she was no longer the spoiled, willful young lady she had been three years ago. Rather than flying into a rage on the spot, she quickly suppressed her emotions.
She took a deep breath and said slowly, "I admit that I behaved improperly when I broke off the engagement back then, but I also offered your Xiao Clan compensation. I never meant to humiliate you..."
"Compensation? Compensate my fucking ass! If I butchered your mother and offered you compensation afterward, let's see whether you'd accept it!" Before Nalan Yanran could finish, Xiao Yan cut her off. The experts invited to witness the Three-Year Agreement wore strange expressions around the square. They had never expected this boy from the Xiao Clan to have such a temper... Naturally, Nalan Jie looked the most displeased of all. After all, Xiao Yan was cursing members of his Nalan Family.
"Xiao Yan, you're courting death!" Nalan Yanran, who had remained relatively calm, began losing control the moment his insults touched on her mother. Seeing this, Hai Bodong, who had also been invited, could not help shaking his head. Trading insults with Xiao Yan-wasn't that courting death...? He had followed Xiao Yan for so long and had never seen him lose a war of words.
Hai Bodong should have been enjoying his retirement at the Xiao Gate in the Black-Corner Region, but he had returned to the Jia Ma Empire specifically on Xiao Yan's orders. Recalling Xiao Yan's earlier instructions, he could not help pitying the members of the Nalan Family. Of all the people they could have provoked, they had chosen Xiao Yan. Now they would not even know how they died. At the very least, there was no escaping