Only Su Chen directly refused, and he wasn't acting or playing hard to get. Since she had already brought it up, there was no need for such unnecessary pretense. It could only mean one thing: Su Chen simply didn't like Lu Jixue. In other words, Lu Jixue's beauty had failed to move him.
Su Chen's refusal genuinely stunned Situ Zhu and Fairy Shuiyue. None of them had expected Su Chen to reject Lu Jixue so flatly.
With no other options, Situ Zhu let out a deep sigh and said, "Things have reached this point; we can only let nature take its course."
Chapter 180