Long Ao comes and goes like the wind; by the time Yue Jinghua and her brother Yue Minzhi returned to their courtyard, Long Ao had already departed.
He was at a critical juncture in his cultivation within the Four Symbols Chess Middle City, and leaving for even a moment was to invite great peril. As for the marriage of Long Rui, having proposed his condition, he utterly disregarded whether the folks at the Duke Mansion agreed or not, tossing out the terms for the union of the two families, then rushed back to the Four Symbols Chess Middle City like the wind, as if he had never been there at all.
Lie Rou, though a woman, hailed from a noble family and was certainly not some ignorant commoner. However, hearing about the Xuyang Trial for the first time also took her by surprise.
Faced with such a significant matter, she couldn't possibly rashly make any promises on behalf of Yue Minzhi, and so she had no choice but to immediately call the siblings together for an urgent meeting.
