At these words, the banquet hall fell into an abrupt silence. Many of the Du family relatives who had been covertly observing Du Anrao widened their eyes in unison, wearing expressions as if they had seen a ghost.
Du Junyan and his siblings had anticipated this; they mentally noted which of their close relatives had changed their expressions, intending to "catch up" with them one by one shortly.
Among the crowd, the person most caught off guard was Fifth Cousin, who was currently standing right before Du Anrao. He was the youngest son of Du Anrao’s Great-Uncle, a full generation younger than Father Du. Because the elders in his family had once been swindled by con artists, he held a deep, ingrained hatred for so-called miracle-workers and mysterious phenomena.
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