"This…"
This scene startled everyone present, including Lian Ruilong and Lian Chengbi, who had just returned after seeing off the poison master and the Shen brothers. Lian Haidong and the old matriarch shot up from their seats as if on springs.
"You… you didn't take the Cartilage Elixir?" Lian Haidong asked in shock.
"You trust Shen Shihao too much!" Ye Xiu casually sowed discord.
"Bastard!" Lian Haidong erupted. "If the Shen family didn't want to marry Shen Monong to us, they should have just said so! Why use such a despicable method to harm Zhengrong?"
The old matriarch roared, "Shen Songshan, the Lian family is now irreconcilable with the Shen family!"
The other members of the Lian family were also seething, their killing intent palpable. They were convinced that the Shen family had regretted promising Shen Monong to Lian Zhengrong. Not wanting to break the engagement openly, they had sent someone pretending to be poisoned by the Cartilage Elixir to secretly harm him.
