Meng Xinian's face darkened as soon as he heard that sentence.
He felt an immense relief that he had caught Zhao Erleng watching them or else who knows what trouble might have arisen.
"It doesn't matter if you saw! But if you dare spout nonsense to your sister-in-law, I'll skin you alive! Do you hear me?"
"Captain, I won't tell sister-in-law, but," Zhao Xin's expression was somewhat conflicted, he looked quite disapproving, "you are already betrothed to sister-in-law, yet you and Miss Xiao Du are still... all tangled up. Isn't that unfair to sister-in-law?"
Meng Xinian: "..."
Could he possibly throw this fool back into the furnace for a makeover?
"Which eye of yours saw me getting tangled up with someone else? Can't you choose your words? If you can't, should I sign you up for the literacy improvement class?"
