"Fine! You spout nonsense and dare to sling mud at me!?" Xu Zhen was infuriated, his demeanor utterly flustered. "Hongyan, look at this piece of trash you've brought here!"
"You pretend to know what you're talking about, and now you're framing me?"
"Let me ask you, are you so displeased with me that you deliberately brought him here just to humiliate me?"
"If you really can't stand me, I can leave. It's not your place to find some random nobody to insult me like this!"
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant," Huo Hongyan said, torn and anxious. "I had no intention of bringing someone to humiliate you. I just wanted to find out if there was really a problem with these medicinal herbs."
"This matter concerns my Huo Family's honor. How could I act so recklessly?"
