Chapter 25: Stop Daydreaming!

Su Zi'an grit his back teeth. He wanted to get angry, but he realized he had no grounds to stand on. Indeed, based on common decency, Su Luo hadn't really done anything wrong; she had just repeated what she heard after being startled… But who was the other party? The Crown Prince!

In the end, Su Zi'an could only reprimand her viciously: “How did your mother teach you normally? You don’t understand any rules or etiquette, you can’t keep anything hidden, and you deserve to have the Crown Prince break off the engagement!”

Su Luo chuckled coldly in her heart.

Can’t keep anything hidden? Didn't that mean he was implying that she also believed the Crown Prince was… Pfft. Su Luo found it utterly hilarious. She figured that the news of the Crown Prince’s impotence would soon spread across the land.

However, this father’s heart was truly biased.

He knew long ago that the Crown Prince would soon become engaged to Su Xi after breaking up with her, yet he intentionally put on the air of a Patriarch in front of her? Did he truly think she was a fool?

Su Luo pretended to be wronged and looked toward Su Zi'an: “Father, is it because I don’t understand rules and etiquette that His Highness the Crown Prince doesn’t want me? If I understand rules and know etiquette, will His Highness the Crown Prince want me back?”

Su Zi'an’s expression instantly stiffened.

The reason the Crown Prince broke off the engagement was naturally not just because of this, but those other reasons were not pleasant to discuss… Su Zi'an’s old face paused, and he heavily flicked his sleeve, a trace of humiliation and anger showing on his face. “If you had been more promising, how could you have fallen to this state? Who can you blame?”

What was wrong with this daughter today? The words she spoke were clearly as weak as usual, yet they always managed to choke him up.

“Then if my innate Spiritual Energy reaches the Purple Rank now, will Father value me? And the Crown Prince won’t break the engagement?” Su Luo wore an expression of pure innocence and romance, her bright, watery eyes seemingly filled with expectation and yearning.

“Purple Rank?” Su Zi'an laughed heartily, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

After a long while, he looked at Su Luo with disdain and mockery, saying, “Do you even know what innate Purple Rank means? Forget innate Purple Rank, even Blue Rank, no, Green Rank—if you had Green Rank talent, I, your Father, would personally kneel and pour you tea!”

Speaking of Su Luo’s innate Spiritual Energy, this was Su Zi'an’s most humiliating incident.

Back then, because of this little Trash, he had been ridiculed by his colleagues for half a year. This incident was practically his nightmare, and even now, just mentioning it made him secretly resentful.

Su Luo lifted her small, palm-sized face, looking pitiful and asking weakly, “Then, Daddy, if I accidentally become a Wood-Fire Dual Element user, and accidentally become an Alchemist, will you treat me very, very well?”

“Wood-Fire Dual Element?” Su Zi'an looked at Su Luo as if she were an idiot. He couldn't even bring himself to mock this foolish daughter anymore.

But she was truly pathetic, born a Trash.

He only heard himself say, “Wood-Fire Dual Element? Luo Luo, you must be crazy from wanting to become strong, right? Do you know how rare the Wood-Fire Dual Element is? The reason our Su Residence has its current status is partly because of your grandfather, that Pillar of Stability, but more importantly, because our Su Family has a Wood-Fire Dual Element Alchemist, do you understand? An Alchemist! Stop daydreaming!”

Although that Alchemist is currently only an Intermediate Alchemist, he is still an object that various powers desperately try to win over and recruit. A large part of the reason the Imperial Family courts the Su Family is because of this Alchemist at home.

This Alchemist is none other than Su Zi'an’s own eldest brother.

He has been devoted to alchemy for years, practicing diligently for decades, only barely managing to reach the Intermediate Alchemist rank.