"What?"
"How is this possible!"
"Chu Yanran actually agreed?!"
As Chu Yanran's words fell, everyone was dumbfounded, even doubting if they had misheard.
Chu Mengyao was even more shocked, her mouth wide open in speechless disbelief.
Clearly, just a moment ago, Chu Yanran had publicly rejected Su Qianyu. Why had she changed her mind so quickly?
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
Chu Mengyao shook her head repeatedly in denial, completely unable to believe the scene unfolding before her very eyes.
Yet immediately after, Su Qianyu took Chu Yanran by the hand, walked over to Chu Mengyao, and shook their joined hands in front of her.
With a half-smile, he said, "Earlier, you seemed to say you wanted to be my concubine, to work like a beast of burden and serve me."
Before Chu Mengyao could reply, Su Qianyu abruptly changed his tone: "But I forgot to mention earlier—trash like you isn't even worthy of being my concubine. Now, I am your ancestor."
"Why haven't you called me ancestor yet so I can hear it?" Su Qianyu spoke again, a brilliant smile on his face.
Hearing this, Chu Mengyao's expression turned as unsightly as if she had eaten shit. She roared angrily, "In your dreams!"
"It seems you still aren't obedient." Su Qianyu was not the least bit hurried, and then gently pinched Chu Yanran's palm.
So smooth and tender!
This texture was truly fantastic!
Although Chu Yanran was inwardly unhappy that Su Qianyu was taking advantage of her, she understood what he meant.
With a sigh, she said, "Mengyao, just call him ancestor. It's not like you'll lose a piece of flesh."
Hearing this, Chu Mengyao was filled with disbelief.
"But Ancestor..."
She was so anxious she was almost on the verge of tears. Could it be that the ancestor was in a good mood today and was just joking with her?
Yet upon closer observation, she discovered that the expression on Chu Yanran's face was completely calm, with no hint of joking whatsoever.
"The ancestor has spoken, what are you waiting for?"
Su Qianyu continued looking at Chu Mengyao, his face full of playful banter.
In an instant, a feeling of mingled grief and indignation surged into her heart. Chu Mengyao looked at Chu Yanran with a pleading expression.
"Ancestor, did you make a mistake..."
However, Chu Yanran did not reply, and the last shred of hope in Chu Mengyao's heart was declared shattered.
Even though she harbored ten thousand objections and a deep sense of unwillingness, she still had to look at Su Qianyu.
"An... cestor..."
Her voice was trembling!
Her face was flushed a deep red.
"Ah!"
"Grea-rea-rea-reat-granddaughter is such a good girl!"
Su Qianyu smiled with utmost satisfaction.
Although my current strength is inferior to yours, I can completely crush you just with our seniority!
Chu Mengyao's face was blushing fiercely, her heart consumed with grief and despair.
She was a super genius who had awakened the Ice Body, yet now she had to call Su Qianyu ancestor. She wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into right now, having lost all face to face people.
"This, this, this... this is utterly absurd!"
Chu Hong was likewise shocked beyond measure at this moment.
"Hehe, how could I forget, the Chu Family Head is still right here." Su Qianyu turned his head to look at Chu Hong.
"You, you, you, what do you want?!"
Chu Hong's eyes widened instantly as he looked at Su Qianyu.
An ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart, and he deeply regretted why he had spoken up just now.
Su Qianyu wore a half-smile as he said, "What do I want? Naturally, I want to get acquainted with the Chu Family Head all over again."
Hearing this, Chu Hong's expression turned instantly grim.
He hurriedly took a step back, saying with a mixture of shock and anger, "You... don't you dare mess around!"
It was clear that Chu Hong was panicking a little at this moment.
Su Qianyu, however, remained smiling. Didn't you say you were going to show me no mercy earlier? Let's see how I handle you now!
He reached out to wrap his arm around Chu Yanran's slender waist, sighed, and said, "Wife, it seems the people from your maternal family don't really like me. I'm so heartbroken, what should we do..."
Hearing this, Chu Yanran knitted her delicate brows.
Yet, thinking that this matter concerned the future of the entire Chu Family, she had no choice but to compromise, so she looked at Chu Hong.
"You should call him that too."
Upon hearing these words, Chu Hong felt as though he had plunged into an icy abyss.
"Ancestor, this absolutely will not do!"
Chu Hong was currently as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
He was already sixty or seventy years old; never did he expect to suffer such a calamity today—having to call a young man in his early twenties his ancestor!
"Just call him that."
Chu Yanran spoke once more.
She really had no way to explain right now.
Chu Hong's face turned instantly pale, but he had no choice but to obey Chu Yanran's command. Lowering his head, he called out with a trembling voice, "An... cestor!"
After calling him that, his entire body shook, and a massive sense of humiliation threatened to swallow him whole.
Especially when he thought that if Chu Mengyao hadn't insisted on breaking off the engagement, Su Qianyu ought to have called him "Dad".
Yet now it was his turn to call the other person ancestor; he had truly lost all of his old face!
"My goodness..."
"The natural order has been totally inverted!"
"This world is truly too crazy!"
Everyone present felt their heads buzzing; this scene had completely exceeded everyone's expectations.
"That's more like it."
Su Qianyu smiled faintly.
The feeling of this super-seniority upgrade was truly amazing!
Only then did Su Qianyu contentedly take Chu Yanran by the hand and board the carriage, before driving away in high spirits amidst the sound of gongs and drums, under the utterly shocked gazes of the crowd.
Until the figures of Su Qianyu and the others completely vanished, the people present still had not reacted, their expressions incomparably dull.
After a long while...
"He really pulled it off!"
"So Chu Yanran likes younger men!"
"Damn it, if I'd known, I should have gone for her! That was the goddess of my dreams, and now she's actually getting married. I hate this!"
No one could remain calm.
The number one beauty of the Tianwu Dynasty, the ancestor of the Chu Family, the hundred-year-old Chu Yanran, had actually married Su Qianyu, who was barely in his early twenties!
And they had seen it crystal clear: Chu Yanran had willingly left with Su Qianyu, which made it all the more unbelievable.
Meanwhile, in the imperial palace.
"Chu Yanran actually agreed?"
Hearing the eunuch's report from below, Su Longyuan widened his eyes and couldn't help sucking in a cold breath.
"Could it be that Chu Yanran really likes younger men?"
He was completely dumbfounded!
For over a hundred years, the number of people who had pursued Chu Yanran could be said to be countless.
Among them were plenty of top geniuses and influential figures, and even he had tried in the past, but all had ended in failure.
Never had he imagined that
Chu Yanran would actually agree to marry Su Qianyu!
Su Longyuan immediately issued an order: "No, hurry up and call that brat over here, I want to ask him what on earth is going on!"
Hearing this, the eunuch hesitated, stopping short of speaking.
"Why aren't you going yet?"
Su Longyuan frowned.
The eunuch hurriedly knelt and explained, "Your Majesty, the Ninth Prince just had me relay a message. He said he is going straight to consummate the marriage and hopes Your Majesty will not disturb him."
Upon hearing these words, Su Longyuan stood up straight from the throne, gritting his teeth in fury as he roared, "This unfilial son!"
The eunuch trembled with fear.
Then Su Longyuan slumped back down into his seat.
Shaking his head with a face full of sorrow, he muttered, "If all else fails, I suppose we'll just have to go by our own separate seniority!"
...
"Wife, come inside with me." Upon returning, Su Qianyu brought Chu Yanran straight to the bedchamber.
In reality, Su Longyuan and the others hadn't made any other preparations because they hadn't expected Chu Yanran to agree beforehand.
Let alone a wedding ceremony, even the bridal chamber hadn't been decorated.
Chu Yanran entered the room.
She looked straight at Su Qianyu and said, "Although I agreed to marry you, you'd better not harbor any improper thoughts."
Her voice was cold and detached, keeping people a thousand miles away.
"That won't do. If my wife doesn't consummate the marriage with me, then you aren't one of us, and I won't help you."
Su Qianyu looked at Chu Yanran with a half-smile. The meat was practically at his mouth—how could he possibly give it up?
Hearing this, Chu Yanran knitted her delicate brows.
Her beautiful eyes fixed on Su Qianyu as she questioned, "Why should I believe you can really help me?"
Su Qianyu smiled faintly.
He walked over to Chu Yanran.
"Your Xuanyin Physique is extreme yin and extreme cold. If you want to dispel the chill within your body, you only need to unite with someone who possesses the extreme yang physique, and it can be perfectly resolved."
Hearing this, Chu Yanran let out a cold snort.
"You think I don't know this method? But how easy is it to find someone with the extreme yang physique? If you only came to tell me this, then I'll let you know the consequences of toying with me right now!"
She had long since found a way to resolve her constitution, but simply couldn't find anyone possessing the extreme yang physique, which was why she had been so troubled.
Su Qianyu grinned.
He approached Chu Yanran and cupped her jade-white chin with his hand.
Before she could flare up in anger, he softly said, "Wife, what do you think the chances are that I happen to have the extreme yang physique?"
Hearing this, Chu Yanran's eyes widened abruptly, and even the anger that had just risen in her heart vanished completely.
"You do?"
She looked at Su Qianyu in a mix of shock and joy, a flash of bright light crossing her eyes as even her breathing grew hurried.
"Genuine and authentic."
Su Qianyu patted his chest.
Seeing this, Chu Yanran took a deep breath.
As if having made some important determination, she flicked her jade hand. With an outburst of chilling Xuan Power, Su Qianyu's body was directly knocked flying onto the bed.
"If you dare lie to me, today is your day of death!" With that, Chu Yanran flipped over and straddled Su Qianyu's body.
"What are you doing?"
This time, it was Su Qianyu's turn to be dumbfounded.
"Even if I agree to you, I'm going to be on top!"
With that, Chu Yanran gritted her teeth and stripped off her own robes, revealing a vast expanse of crystalline skin and a pair of proud, upright snowy peaks exposed to the air...