Green veins popped up on Lou Jinglei’s forehead. He could not hold back his anger. “Fine! Lou Potian! You have guts! I’ll grant your wish! Everyone, listen to my words. From today onwards, my Lou family of Fengyang Prefecture expels Lou Potian and all the people from Qingyun City related to him! Now, their lives and deaths have nothing to do with us!”
Lou Potian stood still in his tracks and sorrowfully laughed. “Hahaha, I’ll leave. I don’t believe that this vast world has no place for me and my grandchildren!”
Lou Jinglei sneered and waved his arm. “Everyone, retreat. It’s not necessary to waste energy on such an ungrateful old thing. He wants to go to the Imperial city? Like this? Humph! He’ll just be seeking death. If he wants to die, I won’t stop him!”
The rest of the Lou family members shook their heads one after another. “Is Lou Potian silly? He gave up a comfortable life in the Lou family to save his hopeless granddaughter, who’s not even his biological granddaughter!”
“Exactly. He’s going to the Imperial city. Besides death, there’s no other outcome for him. He’ll definitely regret it!”
“Yeah. His granddaughter has offended Third Prince. Without our Lou family’s protection, he can’t survive!”
Lou Potian ignored everyone. Amidst their mockery and ridicule, he flew up and headed toward the Imperial city…
Time slowly passed.
In the blink of an eye, Lou Xiaoxiao’s wedding day arrived.
In the Imperial Academy.
One by one, the juniors of the Lou family gathered in Lou Xiaoxiao’s house with troubled expressions.
“Sister Xiaoxiao, what shall we do? Tomorrow is the day of the wedding, but we have no plans at all.”
“The people from the Yinguo Mansion are heavily guarding the boundaries of the academy. On top of that, Young Master An, who said that he would get help from the An family, has yet to return. What shall we do?”
Lou Xiaoxiao was in a daze, but she tried her best to be calm. “I trust Shaoning. Since he hasn’t come, he must have been delayed by other matters. On another note… After I get on the bridal sedan tomorrow, remember to quickly leave the Imperial Academy and the Imperial city. Don’t let them find you all again.”
“Sister Xiaoxiao, then what about you?”
“Me?” A tinge of despair flashed past Lou Xiaoxiao’s eyes. “Don’t worry. Someone will come and save me.”
“Sister Xiaoxiao, don’t lie to us. We know that you’re unwilling to suffer this. If Young Master An doesn’t come to save you, you will definitely choose to die…”
Lou Qing choked while speaking, “You have always been the one looking after us! We also want to protect you this time! Sister Xiaoxiao, we are not leaving. We want to stay and fight together with you!”
“Right. We want to stay,” the rest of the juniors also hurriedly said.
“Silly! Please don’t say this kind of rubbish. If all of us die, what will happen to Grandpa? What will happen to the grudge of our Lou family of Qingyun City? Don’t think that the revenge for our City Lord’s Mansion in Qingyun City was fulfilled when Qianxue destroyed the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion in Liuyun Prefecture. The actual culprits who wanted to destroy our clan back then were Lou Xingchen and the Zhu family!
“You have the martial skills Qianxue gave to you, and you’ve also eaten the Marrow-Washing Pills. Your future is very promising. Even if you go to the Alchemy King’s Mansion and look for Zhuixun, it’s better than dying here!”
“Sister Xiaoxiao—”
“Be obedient. Listen to me. After I get on the bridal sedan tomorrow, the people from the Yinguo mansion should leave. At that time, you all must remember to leave the academy.”
A few of the juniors from the Lou family nodded with red eyes. However, when they exchanged their gazes with each other, their eyes were full of determination.
The next day.
The Yinguo Mansion’s people came to receive Lou Xiaoxiao very early in the morning.
“Many strange things happen every year, but this year, the number is too many! These people are actually receiving the bride at the entrance of the Imperial Academy?”
“You don’t know this. Seven days ago, at the entrance of the Imperial Academy, the Yinguo Mansion …”
The insiders spoke about what had happened back then.
“Ah… So this means that not only is a pair of ill-fated lovebirds being separated, but also Lou Xiaoxiao has to marry Master Yinguo, that lecherous old man? Pitiful, really pitiful!”
“Sh-h, don’t say it out loud! They’re here! Lou Xiaoxiao and the juniors of the Lou family are here!”