When “Qin Shanshan” grew increasingly aggravated in her spiel earlier, Ye Xiuwen had already begun to develop a bad premonition of what was to come, and his eyelids had also started twitching. Then, before he could do anything else, “Qin Shanshan” grabbed his left hand and dropped the bombshell like a bolt of lightning that struck out of the blue.

Even though he knew that “Qin Shanshan” was doing all of this to help him, he was unable to stop his face from twitching uncontrollably when the disciples around him began to cast peculiar glances at him. It took him almost all of his strength to suppress the urge to retract his hand from “Qin Shanshan’s” grasp.

Truth be told, Ye Xiuwen had never held hands with anyone after all these years. Even Jun Xiaomo, with whom he could be described to be the closest to, had only ever grabbed or clung on to his arms, and the physical contact was still separated by the thin layer of his clothes at that time.

This was primarily due to the fact that Ye Xiuwen was somewhat of a germophobe, and he did not appreciate it when a person drew too close to him. Despite that, “Qin Shanshan” had done the outrageous deed out of the blue, leaving him so perplexed and shocked that he did not even have the time to react to her actions.

Then, as he examined the peculiar gazes which he was receiving, he could tell that all of them sincerely believed without any modicum of doubt “Qin Shanshan’s” allegation that they had done the deed between married couples. Moreover, he knew that if he stood up...