What the hell?
A... marriage alliance?
With Chancellor Li's daughter, no less?
Tang Kui's previously composed face instantly filled with shock.
Jiang Jingcheng had spent quite some time exchanging pleasantries with him, yet he had not breathed a word of this.
Most importantly...
Li Bingzhang and Jiang Jingcheng were notorious for being at odds in the Imperial Court.
Though they worked together at court and remained civil in public, in private, each had done plenty to poison his own circle against the other.
This was practically an open secret in the Great Hua Dynasty's Imperial Court.
And a sworn enemy like that was actually willing to marry his daughter into the Jiang Family?
What was more, that daughter of Chancellor Li's...
If Tang Kui remembered correctly, she was his only child.
For a moment, suspicion filled Tang Kui's expression. Was Jiang Xiaobai pulling his leg?
Beside him, Tang Ningshuang, who had been wearing a disdainful expression, was visibly taken aback as well.
Even her cool eyes could not help flicking toward Jiang Xiaobai.
But after that one glance, Tang Ningshuang shook her head and gave a quiet, cold snort.
Indeed.
Talk like that was best taken with a grain of salt.
What sort of person was the young lady of the Li Family, and what sort of character was this heir?
Put those two together, and no matter how one looked at it... they hardly seemed likely to have anything to do with each other.
Even if Chancellor Li agreed, with Li Zhiwei's proud temperament, she might well refuse!
At that thought, Tang Ningshuang pressed her red lips together, and the chill in her eyes as she regarded Jiang Xiaobai deepened.
It seemed Jiang Xiaobai was not merely lacking in character and riddled with holes in his head.
He... was