Lin Shisan fell silent. He could feel Zi Yuner looking at him.
There was guilt in her gaze, and unease.
She clearly had not expected her father to set such conditions, much less that the two men in black had been sent by him.
What could she do?
Oppose her father?
He was her father, the master of the Purple Sky Dragon Palace, the Purple Sky Dragon King who had lived for twelve hundred years.
She certainly could not do it.
"Father... you shouldn't have done this..."
"Young Master Lin saved your daughter, yet you tested him this way. This is not our Dragon Palace's way of hospitality."
"The way of hospitality?"
The Purple Sky Dragon King glanced at Zi Yuner.
His calm voice carried an unquestionable pressure.
"Yun'er, you are the princess of the Purple Sky Dragon Palace, my only daughter."
"A human saved your life. I can bestow treasures upon him, or even guarantee him a hundred years free of worry."
"But making him my son-in-law, or having him surrender the Hornless Dragon True Spirit-that is the hospitality befitting our Purple Sky Dragon Palace."
"Is a mere mortal man worth my daughter humbling herself like this?"
Zi Yuner's gaze fell on Lin Shisan.
She did have feelings for Lin Shisan.
A man who had saved her at the brink of death, a man who dared venture deep into the Dragon Palace for a child, a man who had cultivated a Hornless Dragon True Spirit within himself. Such men were rare even among the Dragon Clan. But those feelings fell far short of making her defy her father's command.
After all, she was a princess of the Dragon Palace, of the Dragon Clan's bloodline.
She could fight for a chance for Lin Shisan, plead for him, and set aside