Chapter 602: Become a Fan (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
How can that lowly Erya live better than me… No, it shouldn’t be like this!
Erya should be leading a worse life than me!
Li Zhaodi didn’t deliberately lower her voice when she spoke to Zeng Ya. Everyone nearby heard her clearly.
Gu Yanfei was the focus of everyone’s attention today. For a moment, more and more gazes surged toward her. Everyone’s expressions were filled with surprise.
Second Lady Gu has already gotten engaged in Huaibei?!
Is this servant her sister?
How is this possible!
Everyone found it unbelievable. Their gazes became subtle and complicated, as if they were looking at Gu Yanfei with spikes.
If all of this was true, then the fact that the Emperor personally presided over Gu Yanfei’s coming-of-age ceremony today would become a joke!
No matter how happy the Emperor was today, he would probably be furious when he found out the truth!
Everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t speak for a long time. The lake was silent for a moment. Even the wind seemed to have stopped, and the surroundings were strangely quiet.
Gu Yanfei raised her eyebrows and looked back and forth between Li Zhaodi and Zeng Ya calmly. The corners of her lips even curled up into a faint smile.
Zeng Ya glared at Gu Yanfei.
She thought that she would see shock and embarrassment on the other party’s face. However, Gu Yanfei was smiling instead. There was even a hint of interest in her smile.
“Which family’s servant is spouting nonsense here?” Gu Yunzhen’s gentle voice broke the short silence.
Gu Yunzhen picked up her skirt and walked over in a hurry. Her breathing was a little hurried because of her jogging, but her eyes were exceptionally bright and determined.
Her beautiful face was filled with anger. Her gaze landed on Li Zhaodi’s face as she tried to find something similar to Gu Yunrong’s facial features.
Although her heart was a mess, Gu Yunzhen didn’t show it on her face. She scolded Li Zhaodi righteously, “What is this place and who arc you? You’ve really eaten a bear’s heart and a leopard’s gall. How dare you cry and spout nonsense here? You’re simply unruly and rude!”
Gu Yunzhen’s words weren’t only scolding Li Zhaodi, but also the Zeng family.
Unlike Wei Jiaoniang and the others, Gu Yunzhen’s tone was very gentle, refined, and restrained. However, she didn’t show Zeng Ya any mercy.
“Which family is so unruly to bring such a rude and tactless servant to the imperial palace? Aren’t you afraid of being disrespectful?!” Gu Yunzhen asked, but her gaze landed accurately on Zeng Ya’s face.
Zeng Ya was so angry that a few veins appeared on her forehead.
If she directly said that Li Zhaodi was a servant of her family, it would be equivalent to admitting that their Zeng family was unruly!
Li Zhaodi’s actions today were indeed inappropriate. If the servants of other families had dared to speak so arrogantly in front of so many nobles, they would have long been beaten up by the main family. In their Zeng family, such servants would only be dragged down and beaten to death in a straw mat. Their corpses would be hastily wrapped and thrown into the mass grave.
Gu Yunzhen had put herself on the line with just a few words. What the servant had done also represented the face of the main family. If she didn’t express anything today, others would question the Zeng family’s etiquette in the future.
Li Zhaodi was naturally not as important as the Zeng family!
“Zhaodi, don’t talk nonsense!” Zeng Ya’s voice seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth. The line of her jaw was tense. “Kneel!”
There was a hint of sternness in her tone and a cold glint in her eyes.
Li Zhaodi shrank back and bit her lower lip so hard that it almost bled.
She couldn’t help but look around at everyone timidly. The young masters and ladies in luxurious clothes around her all looked at her with a high up in the air gaze, filled with disdain and contempt.
There was no trace of sympathy or pity, and no one would plead for her.
Li Zhaodi’s gaze finally landed on Gu Yanfei’s face. She placed her last hope on her.
However, Gu Yanfei only looked at her quietly. Her eyes were as indifferent as if she was looking at a stranger.
Li Zhaodi felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on her heart. She picked up her skirt and knelt down with extreme difficulty.
This wasn’t the first time she had knelt. With her status, she had knelt countless times in the past. Kneeling was nothing, but she had never imagined that kneeling today would be so difficult.
It made her feel that she wasn’t kneeling to Zeng Ya, but to Gu Yanfei..