The dog-licking villain only wants to be doggy, and the heroine doesn't follow the routine!

A few seconds of silence.

Then Zhao Ritian jumped more than three feet high and slapped Shan Jianqing across the face!

Shan Jianqing was caught off guard, and so was everyone else.

They were all dumbfounded.

An elder of the Elder Council? Stealing two little girls from a minor family?! This is just too strange!

That can't be!

Shan Jianqing's head was buzzing. He was surrounded by respectable people, and the person had been found in his own room. This... this person was missing!?

So he didn't even react when Zhao Ritian jumped up. In fact, he only came to his senses after Zhao Ritian slapped him.

Covering her face, she looked at Zhao Ritian and said, "It wasn't me!"

Zhao Ritian was about to hit him again when Lu Chengwen grabbed him around the waist and said, "Ritian, Ritian! You can use your mouth, but don't hit me!"

Zhao Ritian's tears welled up in his eyes:

"You bastard! You son of a bitch! You beat up a dog who lives for eight hundred miles without a single person in sight!"

"You eat their food, live in their house, and then you fucking want to sleep with their daughter! Are you even human?!"

"You keep talking about justice and fairness, but secretly you're doing these petty thefts! Even Long Aotian is better than you!"

"You think you can bully the Fan family just because they're a small, insignificant family?! Damn it, today I, Zhao Ritian, the protagonist of the Yanzhao Gate, will uphold justice!"

Shan Jianqing covered his face: "It really wasn't me!"

Long Aotian stood up, his face stern: "Not you? If it wasn't you, why were you jumping around so enthusiastically? If it wasn't you, why did you insist on searching our room first? If it wasn't you, why were we found in your room?!"

Long Aotian asked the member of the Fan family, "Where is this place inside the house?"

"They tied him up under the bed and gagged him."

"How was it discovered?"

“We searched room by room while you were in a meeting, and we heard a noise under the bed. We immediately found it.”

Long Aotian shook his head: "Is your Elders' Council a little sick? I don't know what kind of bewitching potion you drank yesterday, you insisted on coming to argue with us; and last night you stole two daughters from the Fan family and hid them in their house."

Long Aotian then asked the Fan family, "Are the girls alright?"

"It's nothing, I was just a little scared."

Long Aotian pointed at Shan Jianqing: "Why did you kidnap that girl? Three of you can't even make a real man. How shameful is this!"

Shan Jianqing's head was buzzing. Mingming... hid in your house!

The flounder knew it had been tricked. Tricked again.

At this point, all he could do was try to smooth things over: "It's a misunderstanding, it must be a misunderstanding."

Zhao Ritian shouted, "Misunderstanding my foot! It must have been your idea, old man! You thought their daughter was pretty, so you let them grab someone. When they got back and tried it themselves, they found they couldn't do it, so they hid under the bed. How shameless of you! Doing something like this at your age! If I were you, I'd cut my hair out to apologize to the world!"

The flounder was furious: "Watch your mouth!"

Zhao Ritian angrily retorted, "Why should I be polite to trash like you!"

"Everyone! Everyone!"

Lu Chengwen stood in the middle and began to smooth things over.

"This matter is strange! Please hear me out!"

Lu Chengwen sighed: "Our Yanzhao Sect and several elders have indeed had many conflicts these past two days. But to say that they would do something like kidnapping someone's girl, I, Lu Chengwen, am the first to disbelieve it!"

The three elders were completely dumbfounded.

Holy crap!? He's even speaking up for us!?

The expressions on everyone's faces varied. In truth, they all understood that it was completely impossible for the Elders' Council to kidnap the two girls; it must be a frame-up, an attempt to cause trouble.

No one expected that Lu Chengwen would speak up for them.

Lu Chengwen said, "There must be something fishy going on here. Perhaps someone is deliberately stirring up trouble by taking advantage of the conflict between us and the three elders, trying to escalate the conflict, frame us, and make us attack and distrust each other, or even fight each other, thus ruining the peace talks!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, silently giving Lu Chengwen a thumbs up.

He is a fair person.

Lu Chengwen continued, "Fortunately, both young ladies are safe and unharmed. This was just a false alarm. I think we shouldn't focus on this incident and shouldn't let those with ulterior motives distract us. Right now, peace talks are the top priority. Anyone who disrupts the peace talks is an enemy! A threat!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Lu Chengwen said to the head of the Fan family:

"Patriarch Fan, although this matter was not done by our own people, it is still caused by us. Please trust our character and integrity."

"Yes, yes, I think so too. Someone must be deliberately trying to sow discord."

"Master Fan is very understanding and righteous, and Cheng Wen is extremely grateful."

Lu Chengwen said, "In that case, on behalf of all the fellow martial artists here who have benefited from your kindness, I will compensate you with two million in cash."

Patriarch Fan quickly said, "There's no need for that, really no need for that..."

"No!" Lu Chengwen said, "There are so many people, and the food and drinks these past few days have cost quite a bit. We can't let you suffer a loss. Let's settle it like this, as a token of our gratitude and apology to you. Please buy some cosmetics, clothes, and bags for the two young ladies to appease them."

"In that case, I'll take my leave of President Lu."

"You're too kind."

Lu Chengwen said, “The east courtyard is where we, the Jiang family, and the Bai family reside. The west courtyard is where the three elders, the Xia family, and the Mo family are temporarily staying. In that case, let’s refrain from visiting each other between the two courtyards for the time being, so as not to give anyone with ulterior motives the opportunity to cause trouble. Is that alright, everyone?”

Everyone expressed their agreement.

Although the storm has subsided, the Elders' Council has lost a lot of face.

Putting aside whether you actually arrested them or not, even if you didn't, someone put two living people under your bed for no reason, and you didn't even know! This is practically telling everyone that these three elders of the Elder Council are all useless!

You two were fast asleep, completely oblivious to everything!?

They're just being polite! If they wanted to slit your throats, it wouldn't be a joke, would it?

Moreover, judging from Shan Jianqing's previous state, some people had already guessed that this was a script where the Elders' Council tried to frame someone but ended up messing it up.

That would be even more embarrassing.

Not only did you do something dirty and vulgar, but you were also stupid, foolish, arrogant, and reckless. You didn't even understand how to do bad things, and you ended up being outsmarted by Yanzhaomen.

It's fair to say that after two days, the Elders' Council has lost all its reputation and prestige within this group.

The five elders, the four heads of the family, and the old dean continued along the right corridor to the inner meeting room for their meeting.

The rest of the group walked down the left corridor and returned to their respective courtyard rooms.

Lu Chengwen leaned closer to the flounder: "Elder."

The flounder, having lost face, had nothing to say but to bow slightly.

Lu Chengwen said, "Elder, I think there are bad people in the Fan family."

The flounder looked at Lu Chengwen: "Really?"

Lu Chengwen leaned closer to him: "You guys were framed yesterday, weren't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken your anger out on us for no reason, right?"

Flounder looked at Lu Chengwen: "What happened yesterday... really wasn't you guys?"

"I've been inside the house the whole time."

Lu Chengwen said, "So I think that everything that has happened from yesterday to today is very strange. It is obviously aimed at you and our Yanzhao Sect."

The flounder looked at Lu Chengwen and thought about it carefully: It seems... that's how it is!