Chapter 1247: Infamous
Chapter 1247: Infamous
"What? Yuan Hong's bride was abducted for his wedding?"
"This is simply unbelievable!"
"How could the Yuan family, the biggest family in Thousand Dragon City and also the City Lord's family, do something like this?"
The surrounding thousand-plus guests, upon hearing Qin Fen's words, immediately buzzed with discussion, as if the pot had exploded.
The City Lord's family of Thousand Dragon City, abducting a woman from distant Huaxia to marry Yuan Hong—such a thing completely overturned everyone's worldview.
This made them look at Yuan Zheng, Yuan Kun, and other members of the Yuan family with eyes that quietly changed.
"Qin Fen, you're talking nonsense!" Yuan Zheng pointed at Qin Fen, angrily scolding him.
This angry reprimand exploded in the square like thunder, causing everyone's ears to buzz.
Everyone saw Yuan Zheng on stage with eyes wide open in anger, white hair flying, a storm erupting around him, his robes fluttering, and an imposing killing aura emanating from him.
Yuan Zheng was furious.
Qin Fen's words had touched his bottom line.
Because the Yuan family's reputation cannot be defiled.
In his view, even if Yuan Yuxi and others were brought back from Huaxia by Yuan Hong and his peers, Yuan Yuxi is a clan relative of the Yuan family and can't be counted as an abducted person.
Moreover, even if it was to harness Yuan Yuxi's Holy Vein to enhance Yuan Hong's cultivation prowess, in Yuan Zheng's view, it is Yuan Yuxi's honor.
For by marrying Yuan Hong, she can become the Saintess of the Yuan family, and also the future wife of the City Lord—how many people aspire to such status?
However, Qin Fen's words directly turned the Yuan family into bandits snatching common women.
Such accusations could deal a devastating blow to the Yuan family's pristine reputation.
"I'm talking nonsense? Uncle Yuan, you know why Lin Fei traveled thousands of miles from Huaxia to the Holy Dragon Continent; it's because your son Yuan Hong took his fiancée, Yuan Yuxi, away." Qin Fen sternly retorted against the furiously raging Yuan Zheng.
Since stepping forward to reveal the Yuan family's actions, Qin Fen had forgotten his fear, discarded all concerns, and now only sought to survive.
The Yuan family was no longer something he needed to protect or worry about.
If Qin Fen's words about the Yuan family's abduction shocked everyone, then saying Yuan Hong took Lin Fei's fiancée immediately caused a great uproar among all.
"The Yuan family actually took someone's fiancée?"
"No wonder Lin Fei would break into the City Lord's Mansion at night and clash persistently with the Yuan family!"
"How many people could endure having their fiancée taken away?"
All the guests, furious, began to discuss, their stance unknowingly shifting from the Yuan family to Lin Fei's side.
Listening to all the guests' discussion, greatly unfavorable to the Yuan family, Yuan Zheng's face turned extremely grim, with his heart burning with rage, wishing he could kill Qin Fen right then and there.
"Qin Fen, do you think slandering my Yuan family will make people believe you? Let me tell you! Yuan Yuxi is a clan relative of my Yuan family in Huaxia, now she is also our Yuan family's Saintess, and marrying my son Yuan Hong is indeed a match made in heaven." Yuan Zheng, suppressing the flames of fury in his heart, retorted disdainfully to Qin Fen.
"Right, your Yuan family may have used the guise of tracing family roots to find Yuan Yuxi's family in Huaxia, intending to trick her into coming to Thousand Dragon City, but ultimately, she wanted to be with Lin Fei and refused to leave. So your son Yuan Hong grabbed her and her grandfather together; is this what you call a match made in heaven?" Qin Fen mercilessly rebutted, directly exposing Yuan Zheng in front of everyone.
He was very clear about what the Yuan family had done, because he had gone to Huaxia under the guise of tracing roots with Yuan Hong last time.
As the Yuan family sought the Saintess, the Qin family likewise wanted to find a woman of the Qin family bearing a Holy Vein.
It was by no means as noble and beautiful as Yuan Zheng described.
Yuan Zheng's eyes were about to shoot flames, his fists unknowingly clenched tightly, with veins bulging on the back of his hands.
He knew that as long as Qin Fen was there, no matter what he said, it couldn't cleanse the Yuan family's reputation.
"Qin Fen, you're spouting nonsense!" At this moment, Yuan Hong, on stage, was beside himself with anger, pointing at Qin Fen and said: "Yuxi and I truly love each other, and are delighted to be married."
"If people don't believe this, I will now ask my bride in front of everyone to prove it."
Everyone immediately turned their gaze towards Yuan Hong and the bride draped in a red veil.
"Yuxi, are you willing to marry me?" Yuan Hong asked the bride draped in the red veil.
The bride in the red veil gently nodded.
"You've all seen it, haven't you? Yuxi is willing to marry me." Yuan Hong's face lit up with joy, addressing all the guests.
Then, Yuan Hong asked the bride in the red veil again: "Is Lin Fei your fiancé?"
The bride in the red veil gently shook her head from side to side.
Yuan Hong immediately raised his voice: "You've all seen it, haven't you? Lin Fei is not Yuxi's fiancé, which proves Qin Fen is slandering the Yuan family, harbors ulterior motives, and is colluding with Lin Fei to tarnish the Yuan family's reputation."
Qin Fen was also stunned.
Whether Yuan Yuxi was Lin Fei's fiancée, he might not have been certain, but that Yuan Yuxi liked Lin Fei was absolutely true.
But how could the bride on stage nod, acknowledging her willingness to marry Yuan Hong?
Could it be that Yuan Yuxi's affections had shifted so quickly?
Seeing the bride nod her agreement to marry Yuan Hong on stage, and shake her head denying Lin Fei as her fiancé, all the guests couldn't help but doubt whether all this was Qin Fen fabricating accusations to malign the Yuan family's reputation?
"What a clever deception, a trick to disguise truth with falsehood!" At this time, Lin Fei, who hadn't spoken, finally spoke.
When he said this, his face showed a subtle smile, as if he had discovered something amusing.
However, all the guests were puzzled, not understanding what Lin Fei meant by this.
Just as everyone was baffled by Lin Fei's words, Lin Fei slowly raised his hand, lifting his palm and pointing it towards the stage.
As his palm lifted, a remarkable gale appeared out of nowhere, blowing towards the stage.
The strong wind caused the Yuan family's cultivation experts on stage to sway, faltering amidst the onslaught.
At this moment, seeing the wind blow, Yuan Hong seemed to realize something and immediately moved to shield the red veil on the bride's head with his hands.
But it was too late. In the face of the gust, the bride yelped as the red veil on her head was blown away.
Then, a beautiful and bewitching woman's face immediately appeared before everyone's eyes.
"This bride doesn't seem to be that Yuan Yuxi?" Seeing the bride's face, a guest immediately started questioning.
"This bride certainly looks different from Yuxi shown on the various media broadcasts yesterday." More people began to debate.
"They're entirely two different people!"
"Could it be that the real Yuan Yuxi refused to marry Yuan Hong, so they found a stand-in to cover up and complete the wedding?"
"No wonder earlier she nodded her willingness to marry Yuan Hong and didn't acknowledge Lin Fei as her fiancé."
"This is all a ruse, does the Yuan family take us for fools?"
The voices of indignant discussion boiled over in the square.
This left Yuan Hong's face extremely unpleasant, wishing he could find a hole to crawl into.
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