“Find a better one? Can you find someone better than Xue’er on the Ling Feng Continent?” Ye Chen laughed in anger.

“Erm… Erm…” The middle-aged man stammered.

“So what if she’s good? She’s so disrespectful to her elders. If you really marry her, won’t we need to serve her as though she’s our ancestor?” The middle-aged woman was obviously much more glib-tongued.

“So, you’re saying that you want to cancel the engagement?” Leng Ruoxue was annoyed. Why do these people always want to cause trouble for me?

“Yes, the engagement must be broken,” the middle-aged woman said determinedly.

“And then? Is the emperor going to arrange another marriage again?” Leng Ruoxue said casually. In fact, she had already sorted out the cause and effect after they revealed their intentions.

“H-how should I know?” the middle-aged woman quickly denied, but her expression was a little flustered.

“What do you think, Freak?” Leng Ruoxue turned to ask Freak, who was sitting beside her.

“Arranging and dissolving engagements as you please. What do you take us for?” Freak said in an unfriendly tone. In fact, he knew very well that he and Xue’er weren’t people who liked to be controlled. Those people were really targeting the wrong people.

“Did you hear that? His words are exactly what I want to say.” Leng Ruoxue’s cold gaze swept over them, and the two of them immediately felt a chill run down their spines.

“Steward, see the guests out!” Leng Ruoxue ordered.

“Yes, Miss.”

“Please.” The steward’s tone was very unfriendly. What kind of parents were they? He had never seen such people in his long life.

Seeing that they didn’t achieve their goal, the two were embarrassed. Moreover, they were being asked to leave, so they instantly felt ashamed and were about to walk away.

“Wait!” Ye Chen suddenly called out to them.

“Chen’er.” The middle-aged man looked at his son expectantly.

“Don’t call me Chen’er. I don’t have a father like you. From today onward, I, Ye Chen, announce that I am leaving the family. I won’t be a member of the Ye family anymore.” Ye Chen looked at the middle-aged man coldly.

“Chen’er, do you know what you’re saying?” the middle-aged man said furiously, his face alternating between blue and white, clearly extremely angry.

“Husband, don’t stop him. If he wants to leave, let him leave. Let’s see how he can gain a foothold on the Ling Feng Continent without the protection of our Ye family.” The middle-aged woman pretended to be angry, but she was overjoyed from the bottom of her heart. This thorn in her heart had finally gotten rid of himself. This was great. No one in the Ye family would snatch anything from her son in the future.

“I’ve thought about it very clearly, and I know what I’m saying. Leave and don’t come back. I have nothing to do with all of you from now on,” Ye Chen said coldly.

“Please leave!” the steward said disdainfully.

“Xue’er, let me hug you,” Freak said pitifully when the two of them were alone in the living room.

“Okay.” Leng Ruoxue was a little speechless as she allowed Freak to hug her, but she couldn’t help feeling puzzled. For some reason, I always feel like I’m being taken advantage of…

“Xue’er, actually, I don’t have much feeling for that so-called father. If he didn’t marry that woman to establish his position, my mother wouldn’t have died, and I wouldn’t have been poisoned since I was a child. You wouldn’t have seen me if I hadn’t been saved.” Freak acted coquettishly again as he spoke.

“So pitiful.” Leng Ruoxue caressed his head as though she was petting him. To be honest, she really couldn’t imagine that he was sad given his tone! She wondered if she was being too unsympathetic.

“Xue’er, you have to treat me better in the future. I don’t have any other family apart from you,” Freak said pitifully. His eyes welled up with tears, as though the water might spill out at any moment as long as Xue’er didn’t satisfy his request.

“Yes, yes. I will be good to you,” Leng Ruoxue coaxed helplessly. Isn’t Freak going to tell me about his past? What’s going on now?

“Oh, Freak, didn’t you say that you wanted to tell me about your past? Continue!” Leng Ruoxue urged. She was being wheedled on! She felt that this was dangerous because she was afraid that she would have no choice but to sign countless unfair treaties.

“I’m done! What else can I say?” He looked at her with a face full of confusion.

“That’s it?” Leng Ruoxue was dumbfounded.

“Yes, and after I was saved, I continued to pretend to be sick. It wasn’t easy for me to grow up safely!” Freak’s shiny black eyes looked at her with a few big words written in them: I’m pitiful. Come and pity me! He didn’t care at all and pretended to be pitiful in front of the person he loved.

“Who saved you then?” she asked curiously.

“I can’t tell you now. You will know in the future.” He kept her in suspense.

Seeing how smug Freak was, Leng Ruoxue really wanted to bite him. But she was relieved to see that what happened just now didn’t affect him.

“Freak, let’s continue eating!” She changed the topic.

“Yeah, I’m not full yet!” Freak said with some dissatisfaction. He really didn’t want to be disturbed by irrelevant people.

When Leng Ruoxue and Ye Chen returned to the garden pavilion, Leng Ruohan was almost done eating.

“Xue’er, Ye Chen, is everything okay?” Leng Ruohan asked as they ate.

“It’s okay. I’ve left the Ye family,” Ye Chen said calmly. He casually picked up a piece of meat and cooked it in the hotpot.

“What? How did this happen? What happened?” Leng Ruohan was surprised. Leaving your family was not a small matter. Moreover, leaving your family would mean that the family had given up on you, and you wouldn’t be protected by the family in the future.

“They were here to cancel the engagement,” Leng Ruoxue explained.

“…”

“Xu Na’er came to look for you yesterday, and today, the Ye family came here to break off the engagement. This is really…” Leng Ruohan was speechless. When did the people of our Leng family become so easy to manipulate?