Chapter 25 Indignant

Xie Dongyang was stunned for 10 whole seconds before he began stuttering. "You... you... you're kidding, right?" "I'm not, Mister Xie. I never joke around, especially with people I'm not familiar with." Jiang Liu was making it very clear that he didn't like to fool around and that he wasn't even close to Xie Dongyang. "How... how is this possible?" The contrast between Xie Dongyang's original thoughts and reality were so great that he could not react for a while. He believed the rumors about the Fifth Young Mistress of the Huas being an ugly young woman with a stuttering problem whom even her own family didn't want to see. He would rather have died than agree to the arranged marriage. Eventually, his father told him that he had taken a fancy to a plot of land in South City that the Huas owned. They had promised to give it to the Xies after the marriage. Even though it was not really that valuable, it was situated at a newly developed district of the city. It was for this reason that th