Du Ye looked at Xiao Yue's left palm dripping with blood, but he couldn't say anything.

He understood that the more Xiao wanted to calm himself down through this method, the more he needed to win this duel even if he had to bleed.

Xiao Yue watched as his mother slowly approached him, but Xiao Yue did not feel the same joy as when his relatives approached him. On the contrary, he felt a little disgusted.

This made Xiao Yue not sure whether he should wait for Madam Xiao to walk over or welcome her.

Xiao Yue knew that the best way he could do now was to walk over and hug his mother, but Xiao Yue felt as if his feet had fallen a thousand jin of heavy stones. He simply couldn't move a single step. In the end, Xiao Yue still chose to stand there and wait for Madam Xiao to approach him.

Although Yue Qian was also a little surprised by Xiao Yue's haggard appearance, when she slowly walked to Xiao Yue, she did not bother about warmth like her mother. Instead, she directly accused Xiao Yue of coming to the banquet without notifying her, which caught her off guard.

"Xiao Yue, you didn't notify me beforehand when you came back. If you do this, you will disrupt my plan." Yueqian knew that the woman in the way was dead, so she didn't need to say anything to Xiao Yue anymore.

"I don't think I need to notify anyone when I return to my home," Xiao Yue replied coldly.

Xiao Yue keenly sensed that his mother did not welcome him to the banquet at all. The reason was very likely related to the father and daughter.

"Now this is your home again?" Yue Qian asked in displeasure, "Didn't you throw away all the family badges that day?"

Xiao Yue's hand that was holding the armband became even harder. He kept trembling and blood dripped onto the floor. However, Xiao Yue didn't care at all. He just glared at Yueqian angrily and said, "Isn't this what you wanted me to be here?" Isn't this what you want to achieve even if you don't use any tricks? Now that I'm back, didn't I just take advantage of your heart? "

"I don't want to quarrel with you the moment we meet. Today's occasion isn't for you to contradict me. Since you're here, then it's good. I just want to let everyone know that you're getting engaged." Mrs. Xiao felt that the annoying Su Nuo was no longer around. There was nothing that could stop her son from getting engaged to Zuo Qian's daughter.

"Engagement? Why haven't I heard? Can you help me get engaged even if I'm not here?" Xiao Yue originally thought that when he heard about the engagement, he would be unable to suppress his anger, but he did not expect that he did not feel angry. Instead, he felt that it was a little funny.

"Today was originally a simple announcement. The formal engagement banquet was naturally meant to wait for you to return to the Xiao Clan." Seeing that her son did not jump as soon as he heard of the engagement as before, Yueqian stared at him playfully.

Xiao Yue turned his head to look at the shareholders and the elders of the Xiao Clan. The corner of his mouth curled into a cold mockery, "If I don't come to the banquet today, are you going to directly tell everyone here that your son is engaged to that woman?"

Xiao Yue raised his hand and pointed at the father and daughter standing at the farthest end of the living room. "I didn't expect that you would really like to do such things first and then," he said.

Madam Xiao felt that her decision was completely correct, so she didn't need to discuss it with Xiao Yue at all. She only needed to inform Xiao Yue when the time came. After all, she was Xiao Yue's mother.

"Tell me? I think you just want to let me know that you have chosen a marriage for me that you think is very suitable, right?" Xiao Yue mercilessly refuted Madam Xiao's words, completely ignoring the many people present and the Zuo Qian Clan's father and daughter.

'I don't want to continue arguing endlessly with you,' Mrs. Xiao knew that arguing like this would only make things worse. 'Let's start the annual banquet.'

'"Alright," Xiao Mu said immediately, wanting to change the topic so that the scene wouldn't look so awkward. "Everyone, please sit down as you please."

Xiao Yue walked over to the elders of the Xiao Clan and continued, "Uncles and uncles, do you agree to such a thing? Have Madam Xiao find someone to give it to me and then say that I can inherit the Xiao Clan. Don't you think it's unfair?"

"Xiao Yue," said the oldest Xiao Bo, "we can't interfere with what kind of family background you want to marry. As long as your uncle and mother think it's suitable, it's fine."

Xiao Yue sneered, "We can't interfere, that is to say, all of you are willing to be led and forced to hold such a New Year party."

The moment Xiao Yue said those words, the faces of everyone present became gloomy.

"If I become the successor of the Xiao Clan, I mean if, I think I'll find a way to stop everyone from having such an annual meeting. However, I'm not at this stage. I'm still engaged to this marriage," Xiao Yue said as he sat beside Xiao Mu, highlighting his position in the Xiao Clan.

After everyone sat down, Xiao Yue realized that his mother was sitting there as well. Xiao Yue immediately frowned and said unhappily, "Wait a moment, as far as I know, the rules of the Xiao family stipulate that women cannot participate in any affairs of the family, right?"

"Yes, strictly speaking," Xiao Mu answered Xiao Yue's question. He felt that Xiao Yue was going to stir up something bad.

"Then shouldn't Mrs. Xiao attend the meeting here?" Xiao Yue chased after her step by step, his eyes staring sharply at Yue Qian who was sitting beside him.

"Yes, but your mother has been attending meetings on behalf of your father since you were very young, so it can't be considered a violation of family rules," Xiao Mu tried his best to settle the matter.

"But I should be the one to take my father's place, shouldn't I?" Xiao Yue pointed at himself and looked around at the shareholders and the elders of the Xiao Clan. Seeing that they nodded repeatedly, he continued, "Since I have returned and come to attend the meeting, Mrs. Xiao should naturally leave. Do you think what I said is correct?"

Xiao Yue knew that this was a great opportunity to break off the relationship between his mother and these shareholders and the elders of the Xiao Clan branch and regain the right to speak.

"Xiao Yue, although you've returned to the Xiao Clan, you seldom attend meetings. You still don't know much about the Xiao Clan. If I quit now, it will only make the Xiao Clan into chaos. You don't know how to handle the affairs of the Xiao Clan, do you?"

This was the first time she felt a sense of crisis. Yueqian understood that her son had come back today not simply to attend the New Year's Annual Meeting. He wanted to drive her out of the inner circle of the Xiao Clan and take revenge on her for forcing Su Nuo to death.