Young Lady Gu, didn’t you realize that you have poured the wrong tea? The tea you served for my master is Red Dates Jade Flower Tea which is prepared for the women! Master can’t have sweet food. The tea he drinks is the West Lake Dragon Well Tea which is beside the women’s tea!
As expected, Shen Qianshan’s hand stopped mid-air while reaching for the cup when he noticed the floating Jade Flower in the tea.
Naturally, Gu Qiang who was staring attentively at him saw his action. When she saw that Shen Qianshan was not reaching for the cup, she tucked her lips nervously and asked, “Is there something wrong, You Highness? You don’t like this tea?”
Of course he doesn’t like it!
Young Lady Gu, please quickly replace the tea for His Highness before he splashes the tea! An Ye shouted in his thoughts.
After all, not only His Highness doesn’t like sweet food, he actually can’t have it!
However, no outsiders knew about that. If His Highness rejected Young Lady Gu’s tea, she would be sad, wouldn’t she?
An Ye sympathized with Gu Qiang in his heart.
But in the next second, he was completely dumbfounded to watch as Shen Qianshan accepted the cup immediately and drank all the tea along with the Jade Flower in a gulp.
After that, Shen Qianshan remained a calm face and spoke in a casual tone, as if that was just an ordinary thing he did just now, “Nothing. This is a nice tea.”
……
There was a faint sound coming of an object crashing onto the floor from a high place in the surrounding.
Gu Qiang was slightly stunned, but she soon felt relieved when Shen Qianshan finished his tea. She then smiled and replied, “You are most welcome, Your Highness.”
Shen Qianshan kept his straight face while covering his cup and got up. “I need to leave now as I have matters to attend to. When my sister comes back, tell her that there will be a carriage to fetch her.”
“Yes, Your Highness. Hope you have a safe trip.”
Gu Qiang stood up at once and bowed to him upon hearing his words, but Shen Qianshan seemed like he had some urgent matters now and left hastily.
Nevertheless, it did not affect Gu Qiang’s mood at all. She was overjoyed now and did not notice Ye, who was sitting below the stage, staring at her maliciously, while pinching mercilessly on the maid’s arm beside her. The maid was in so much pain that tears filled her eyes, but she could only keep her head low and choke back her cries.
Gu Qiang! She underestimated her!
Princess Changning was fond of her, and she was even shameless enough to approach the Ninth Prince who was rumored to be as tyrannical as the living King of Hell.
Oh, and wasn’t she escorted back by the Ninth Prince’s guards previously?
Ye snorted in displeasure while she pinched even harder on the maid’s arm, as if she was itching to tear a piece of flesh from her.
“How shameless. I’m looking forward to finding out if the Ninth Prince speaks up for you later!” she mumbled softly.
The maid finally could not hold in her pain and let out a short whine. The next second, Ye glared at her ruthlessly, causing her to shrink herself.
“Drag this maid out and sell her,” Ye instructed coldly.
Soon, the maid’s mouth was covered up and dragged out by a senior maid. In this large Spring Feast, some witnessed this scene and some did not. Nonetheless, none of them would feel anything wrong about this.
The commoner’s life was as trivial as a grass, so who would care about a maid’s life?
It seemed like Ye was slightly cheered up with the elimination of the maid. She slowly took the handkerchief from the maid beside her and wiped her hands carefully before raising her chin and asked, “Are the people from the Jiang Family here?”
Aunt Zhang nodded and answered in a soft voice, “Yes, they’re here. Everything’s ready.”
Upon hearing that, a trace of smugness appeared on Ye’s face. She then looked at Gu Qiang who was sitting on the stage for the last time and sneered in her heart. At the same time, she raised her voice and shouted, “Go, invite my sister and her family in quickly.”
Sister?
Ye’s shouts were loud, so Gu Qiang heard it and furrowed her eyebrows in perplexity. As far as she knew, Ye’s origin was in Jiangnan. If the Ye Family came, they would have informed them earlier by right.
“Shameless people!”
Chui Xue thought that Gu Qiang was frowning due to anger, so she felt indignant as well. She then explained softly yet rapidly beside Gu Qiang’s ear, “Have you forgotten it, My Lady? Your Uncle and his family are a lot kinder to Madam than to both you and Young Master!”
Through her words, Gu Qiang finally understood. Indeed, other than the Ye Family, only Jiang Min, the eldest sister of her biological mother’s grandfather from Jiang Family, would be qualified for Ye to address her as her sister.
However, Gu Qiang’s smile froze upon the thought of Jiang Min.
Every family would wish for the best for their maiden’s marriage. Unfortunately, her biological mother, Jiang, was an illegitimate daughter. In the early years when Gu Family was not powerful yet, Jiang Family was unwilling to let their daughter marry into the then powerless Gu Mansion, so they put Jiang Rou under the name of the legitimate mother and married her to Gu Family instead.
That was why when Gu Mansion became powerful afterward, the Jiang Family would only butter up Gu Yuandao.