A-Jiu used to say quite a few outrageous things back then. For instance, he once brazenly declared that he would never acknowledge Ruan Jiaojiao as the proper, respectable mistress of the Prime Minister's Estate!
When Ruan Jiaojiao overheard him at the time, she hadn't thought much of it. In fact, she had deliberately popped out to scare him, just to see his reaction once he realized she had heard him bad-mouthing her.
A-Jiu had put up such a tough, defiant front back then.
Chapter 160