After the little episode of Zi Ling forcefully dragging Chu Feng into her group, the trial finally officially began.
The two teams split up and went their separate ways, led by two attending elders, heading toward the supposedly relatively safe area.
The team Chu Feng was in had less than five hundred men and only fifty women. Apart from the attending elder responsible for guiding the way and Supreme Liu, every single man was a participant in this marriage conference.
This created a situation where there were far more wolves than meat — far too many men and far too few women.
Under these circumstances, the talented young men from various factions began pulling out all the stops to win the favor of the beautiful female geniuses.
Zi Ling in particular had countless men trying to get close to her, but anyone who approached was coldly rebuked and sent packing. Even the three who had obtained Supreme invitation letters — Song Qingfeng, Bai Yunfei, and Liu Xiaoyao — were no exception.
Even the attending elder could only shake his head helplessly at this, not daring to intervene. While Zi Ling's behavior of keeping everyone at arm's length went against the very purpose of this marriage conference...
...but once he thought about this girl's special identity, and her grandfather — so powerful he was like a monster, someone even the Villa Master feared — the attending elder could only stand there and glower.
But there is always an exception, and Chu Feng was that exception. While Zi Ling kept all other men at arm's length, she dragged Chu Feng right to her side — and he couldn't leave even if he wanted to.
What was truly unbearable was that after several failed attempts to escape, Chu Feng actually started getting out of line. Not only did he begin cozying up to Zi Ling, but he also took every opportunity to steal a feel, which was truly too much to watch.
Sure enough, Song Qingfeng, Bai Yunfei, and Liu Xiaoyao — three men who considered themselves heaven's favored sons — walked up to Chu Feng together, blocked his and Zi Ling's path, pointed at him, and warned viciously: "You little brat, behave yourself! How dare you touch Miss Zi Ling?"
At that moment, Chu Feng — who had been having a heart-to-heart with Zi Ling — darkened and was about to curse them out, but before he could open his mouth, Zi Ling beside him actually spoke up.
"What goes on between me and Chu Feng is none of your business. All of you, get out of my way. If you block my path again, don't blame me for being rude." Zi Ling's voice was sweet yet utterly domineering, as if she truly didn't regard these three men at all.
"We... we..." At that moment, Song Qingfeng and the other two were first stunned, then their faces turned ashen. They had no idea what to do — they had only wanted to stand up for Zi Ling, but instead got chewed out by her.
But they had nothing left to say, and ultimately could only slink away under everyone's gaze, having completely lost face with absolutely nothing they could do about it.
"Heh, and you say you don't like me? If you don't like me, why'd you help me?" Chu Feng grinned mischievously as he spoke, and extended his villainous arm around Zi Ling's slender waist.
Although he didn't know whether Zi Ling kept him by her side just to make him the target of all the men's hostility, or if she actually wanted to keep a close watch on him, or perhaps had some other intention altogether...
...Chu Feng seized this opportunity to unleash his rogue tactics on Zi Ling — pestering her relentlessly and being utterly shameless in every way imaginable.
What Chu Feng wanted was to make Zi Ling angry enough to stop watching him so closely. Only then would he have a chance to escape from this team.
Because this team was no longer safe. Chu Feng had no idea what kind of danger he would fall into once the attending elder left. Setting aside what anyone else might do, even this unfathomable Zi Ling herself was a massive threat — so he had to get out as soon as possible.