A minute after the pleasantries and idle talks... When the real reason for the female lead's trip to Jiang Li's house was finally revealed, the man intently looked at her for a while before giving him his honest reply.
"Do you know that the way you ask for bonding between us is making me speechless?"
With the same slight smile put on, Jiang Li spoke unhurriedly to the girl who requested to have a private talk with him. Now, only their personal guards and companions were around, hence he said those words unabashedly.
The two dukes were still inside the receiving room. Those two must have shed already their pretenses since their kids were not around but in an adjacent room with a bigger fireplace.