Lin Changheng knew that Xu Xuzhong was playing matchmaker to tie him securely to the Xu Family's great ship with the bonds of family and emotion.
And Xu Xuzhong's reasoning was sound enough. After all, Lin Changheng was nearly forty and it was high time he found a Daoist partner and started a family.
What he couldn't say aloud was that Lin Changheng only had a Mixed Spirit Root and had struggled so much just to break through to the Fourth Layer of Qi Cultivation. The probability of him reaching Foundation Establishment in this lifetime was virtually nonexistent, and one could see the end of his Immortal Path at a glance. He needed to plan for his future.
The wealth and resources accumulated by a Middle Grade Alchemist were quite astonishing and needed to be passed down to an heir.
But Xu Xuzhong would never have guessed that everything they saw was exactly what Lin Changheng wanted them to see.
