Xie Huaiye's face remained expressionless.

He glanced at the town mayor with a nonchalant look and said, "Yes, go ahead."

Yan Ning, standing next to him, was not so polite.

She put her hands on her hips.

Her eyebrows were raised high, and her voice was crisp and clear, with a hint of anger.

"Mayor, our production team really spent real money on this, and you're still feeling the pinch from that money, aren't you?"

"Just taking money without doing anything won't do. Delaying our filming schedule costs money!"

"You need to be more efficient. Hurry up and get things sorted out. Don't just stand here with that forced smile!"

The town mayor's face flushed red and then turned pale as she spoke.

The forced smile on her face completely crumbled.

"Yes, yes, Miss Yan Ning is right! I'll go right away and resolve it! I promise I won't cause any trouble for the production team!"

The town mayor nodded and bowed repeatedly.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, looking as if his backside was on fire.

He turned around and rushed up the stairs.

He walked up the stairs, his heart pounding with anxiety.

It wasn't that he didn't want to say, but Master Ye was known for his explosive temper, so how could he explain it...?

The town mayor had just reached the door of the study on the second floor.

Then we heard a loud bang from inside!

He was so frightened that he shrank back.

Pushing open the door, one could see Master Ye's fat face flushed red with anger, like a boiled shrimp.

He was sitting in a grand chair, looking like he was about to overturn the table!

There is a blue and white porcelain teacup on the table.

It had already broken into eight pieces on the ground.

"This is outrageous! This is absolutely outrageous!"

Master Ye spat as he spoke, pointing a finger into the air, "A wild boy from out of town! How dare he! How dare he refuse the Ye family's marriage proposal?! Huh?!"

He slammed his hand on the table, making the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone jump.

“My Ye family is the most prestigious in this town! My daughter is beautiful as a flower! Is she not good enough for a poor outsider like him?!”

Ye Qingling stood right next to her.

Her head was slightly lowered, and her long eyelashes, like small fans, obscured her eyes, making it impossible to see her expression.

She was as quiet as a shadow, as if her father's raging anger had nothing to do with her.

The town mayor's heart skipped a beat.

He quickly shuffled in, forcing a fawning smile onto his face.

Sweat dripped down his temples.

"Oh, my dear Brother Ye, calm down, calm down! It's not worth getting sick from getting angry!"

He moved closer to Master Ye, lowered his voice, and spoke with utmost caution:

"Brother, don't panic, let me finish. This Xie Huaiye... he's not an ordinary person!"

Master Ye snorted heavily through his nostrils and glared at the town mayor.

"Not an ordinary person? Could he be the King of Heaven himself?!"

The mayor wiped his sweat and lowered his voice even further:

"Compared to the Heavenly King himself... maybe not quite, but close! Outside, he's a force to be reckoned with!"

He secretly gave a thumbs up, "Assets, hundreds of billions! You understand? It means... it means buying our entire town, people and land, would be like child's play!"

"He's just passing through here, filming some... TV program! A big shot who'll leave right after filming!"

"With their standards, our small town can't keep a phoenix, let alone make him your son-in-law..."

"Hundreds of billions?"

Master Ye's shrewd little eyes widened suddenly, as if he had heard a fairy tale.

His angry expression froze for a moment, then melted away.

His expression turned into an extremely complex one, a mixture of shock and doubt.

There was also a hint of resentment from being crushed by such a huge gap...

He remained silent for several seconds.

Only his heavy breathing remained in the study.

Suddenly, he grinned and let out a piercing, cold laugh:

"Ha! Hundreds of billions? You're just bragging, aren't you? Mayor, did you see that money with your own eyes, or did you just hear him bragging about it?"

Master Ye leaned forward, his eyes slicing through the town mayor like knives:

"I don't believe it! If they were really that rich, would they come all the way to this poor, remote place to film a TV show? You're kidding me!"

"Who knows, he's probably some penniless slacker, putting on an act to fool honest people like you!"

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.

The anger was reignited, even more intensely than before:

"Fine! You dare to play me, Ye?! I'll see if he's a real dragon or a mudfish!"

On the other side.

Yan Ning and Xie Huaiye walked back to the courtyard one after the other.

"Hey! You're back!"

Sun Wuji leaned against the stone mill at the entrance of the courtyard.

He grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, and shouted at Yan Ning:

"Sister Ning, that was so cool! A damsel in distress saving a hero! Wow, that was amazing!"

He gave Yan Ning a thumbs up.

Upon hearing this, Xie Huaiye's face turned even darker, like the bottom of a pot.

He glanced silently at Yan Ning, then said to Sun Wuji:

"Heroes? If it weren't for her stirring things up from the sidelines, always wanting to make a scene."

"Can I let those people force me onto the stage...?"

I recalled how pathetic I looked when I was forced to perform.

He wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground.

Yan Ning, on the other hand, was not guilty at all.

Instead, she rolled her eyes at Sun Wuji and pouted:

"Sun Wukong, shut your mouth! If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute. But if you keep spouting nonsense, I'll sew it up!"

She made a move as if to hit him.

Sun Wuji chuckled and nimbly dodged.

The impressive Ye Mansion at the east end of the town.

Ye Qingling left the high-rise building and returned to her boudoir.

She sat in front of her dressing table in her boudoir.

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