Chapter 1675 — Cast Out of the House
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"Wei Zhao, I don't care what backing you have—this is a family matter of the Tang family. I ask you to leave at once!" Tang Lingtou said to Wei Zhao, his face dark.
"What's this, Tang Lingtou? You no longer welcome the Ice Palace's guests?" Bingtang asked coldly. The affair had escalated to this point, beyond even the Ice Palace's expectations. The relationship between the Ice Palace and the Tang family ended here.
Bingtang could not fathom which nerve in Tang Lingtou's head had misfired, that he would take it upon himself to arrange this bestowal of marriage. The man was plainly out of his mind!
"This..." Tang Lingtou merely dared not defy the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy's wishes and wanted Wei Zhao gone—but he had absolutely no intention of letting the Ice Palace leave with him.
"Tang Lingtou, my Mystic Elixir Sect and the Ice Palace are already implacably opposed. Whether I go or they go—make the decision yourself!" the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy said in a sinister, measured tone.
"This... Tang Zhi, I ask you one more time: do you still acknowledge this Tang family?" A wave of sorrow washed through Tang Lingtou's heart. Had he known it would come to this, he would have agreed to the marriage alliance with You Xiaoxin long ago. Now it had come to this pass, and he could only cast one of them aside.
Weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Tang Lingtou decided to choose the Mystic Elixir Sect and the hidden You family. After all, the hidden You family was his wife's family, and the Mystic Elixir Sect was the hidden You family's patron. If he chose the Ice Palace, he would offend the Mystic Elixir Sect and lose the support of the hidden You family in one stroke—and the Ice Palace's meager support would seem paltry by comparison.
Besides, the Ice Palace had never held the hidden Tang family in any good opinion to begin with. So at this moment, casting them aside cost him nothing.
"Acknowledge the Tang family? We never acknowledged it in the first place! As for Aunt Xiaoming, naturally we'll take her with us," Wei Zhao said, looking at Tang Lingtou and speaking word by word.
"Fine. Very fine! Tang Zhi, Xiaoming—the moment you step out that door, you will have nothing more to do with the hidden Tang family, and there will be no need to come back. I have no such daughter, and no such wife!" Tang Lingtou said with feigned regret. "You had best look after yourselves!"
"This is what has been in your heart all along, isn't it? Once we're of no more use, we can just be sent packing, is that it?" Wei Zhao regarded Tang Lingtou with mockery. "We can leave, and we'll leave right now. But I'll offer you one piece of advice: if today you were to humble yourself and beg Tang Zhi's forgiveness for what you did to her all those years ago, perhaps she would still acknowledge you as her father, and perhaps one day, when trouble finds you, she might still pull you out of it! But I am the sort who bends to kindness and not to force. The more you carry on like this, the better—so be it. From here on, we owe each other nothing. Tang Lingtou, until we meet again!"
"Ha? I beg her forgiveness? Her pull me out of trouble? What a joke! Haha!" Tang Lingtou burst into laughter. "You're dreaming!"
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "You may take it as a dream. Well, I've said my piece! Old Master Tang, happy birthday. I hope you'll still be able to celebrate it next year!"
With that, Wei Zhao took Tang Zhi's hand and strode toward the door of the banquet hall—and not a single person dared stand in his way.
Tang Lingtou dared not. Old Master Tang dared not. To raise a hand now would be to truly make an enemy of the Ice Palace.