"Gu Ruoyun, you really are here after all!"
When the Second Madam caught a glimpse of Gu Ruoyun coming for not far away, her face instantaneously darkened a few shades. It was so obvious that she saw the arrival of her uncle and aunt and yet, how dare this abhorrent girl not come to greet them immediately? Who the hell taught her such ill manners?
"Hurmph! How dare you? How rude of you to refuse to see your own aunt and uncle! Don't you have even the slightest sense of manners? Not only that, you actually let the people of Hundred Herb Hall throw your uncle out of the door? It is such a disgrace to our Gu family to even have such an ungrateful daughter in the house!"
With the corner of her mouth lifted up slightly in a scornful manner, she folded her arms across her chest. Her gaze scanned through each of them from the corner of her eyes.
"I am no longer the member of the Gu family, so please, you guys are no longer my uncle or my aunt anymore. I only have one relative now, and that is Gu Shengxiao. Any other person is nothing but a mere stranger who is totally unrelated to me now."
The look on the Second Madam's face became gloomy with dismal. Just the thought of how Second Master Gu got thrown out under the watchful eyes of the crowd was extremely embarrassing and unbearable. They were obviously digging their own graves now, all thanks to this bloody bitch!
"Hurmph! If I'd known this beforehand, I should have strangled you alive the moment your dad passed away before you could make any mischief. Isn't it sufficient to deface my daughter alone? And now you are trying to hurt my husband instead? Why don't you just go to hell?! You might as well just go ahead and die and save all of us from your nuisance."
If it wasn't for her, Panpan would not have been beaten by her own dad. Since she was little, her daughter was fully doted on and nobody had dared to lay a finger on her before. It was because of this that the Second Madam loathed Gu Ruoyun to her guts.
If it was possible, she really would love to give this little bitch a good slap across the face.
"Shut your mouth up!"
Second Master Gu shouted out suddenly in a very loud voice, "I have told you to stay at home but you wouldn't listen, remember?! What do you think would happen if your words somehow made its way to the Young Master Dongfang? Do you really want the whole Gu family to be annihilated?"
Still feeling resentful, Second Madam scoffed, "I really don't understand how that shameless bitch, Liu Yu, could become the adopted sister of the Young Master Dongfang. God must have been really blind then! On top of that, we have to help to find this useless piece of crap right now. Bringing back this crap to the Dongfang family would just waste their food resources. I doubt that the almighty Dongfang family would actually accept her anyway."
Liu Yu, with her real name being Dongfang Yu, had changed her name in order to cut ties and break away with the Dongfang family. Nevertheless, as she was an adopted sister of the Young Master Dongfang, the Second Madam did not really think highly of her. It was not like she was the real daughter of the Dongfang family anyway. Without the help of the Dongfang family, what could Dongfang Shaoze really do with just the sole power of his? Surely, he would not dare to create a disturbance in the Imperial City?
All the same, Second Madam had forgotten that as an offspring of the aristocratic Dongfang family, how was it possible for Dongfang Shaoze's strength to be nothing more than ordinary? She was merely blinded by jealousy.
In actual fact, before getting married to Second Master Gu, the Second Madam was actually infatuated with Gu Tian. Who would not fall in love with that godly handsome, charming and brilliant man? Be that as it may, Gu Tian had never been interested in pursuing any love affair. He was still single in his age of late twenties.
In order to get closer to the person that she loved, Second Madam had decided to get married to the Second Master Gu. At first, she thought that this fine specimen of a man would never have a parallel match, but how wrong she turned out to be. That day, when Gu Tian brought that woman back to the Gu family, she was startled with bewilderment.
Who would have ever thought that there would be such a beautiful and elegant woman in this world? When the two of them were together, they really looked like a perfect couple.
Generally speaking, looking at such a perfect couple, people would usually give their blessing but it was not at all in the case of the Second Madam. In her opinion, she had this mindset that Gu Tian should not be married or even fall in love with any other woman at all in his entire life. Her jealousy had given birth to hatred and prompted her to allow Second Master Gu to make that pact with that man, for the sake of eliminating these two people...
Smack!
A slap was thrown across the face of the Second Madam by Second Master Gu. With his face livid with rage, he bellowed, "I have already told you not to come in the first place! All you do is only make the matter worse! Don't you dare to speak another word again, otherwise I will divorce you!"
Without sparing another glance towards her, he turned his gaze to Gu Ruoyun instead. This time, his tone softened, "Yun'er, I have come to welcome you back home now. Your grandfather is worried sick about your safety with you being all alone outside. I am concerned about you as well. With that mere power of yours, how do you expect to survive in this world? As long as you agree to come back home with me, the Gu family will certainly treasure you dearly. Your treatment will be no worse that Panpan's."
At that moment, the gaze of the Second Madam was raging with flame. It was as if it was going to burn and tear Gu Ruoyun up into thousands of pieces.
Nevertheless, having been warned by Second Master Gu just a moment ago, she didn't dare to attempt to speak a word.
"Welcome me home?" Gu Ruoyun glanced at Second Master Gu. "With such a parade? Why don't I feel like this is a welcome but more like an attempt to capture me instead? Besides, since the Gu family has decided to pass me to the Weapon Refining Sect and let my life and death be determined by fate instead, I am no longer part of your Gu Family! I could never ever cross such a huge threshold anyway. So, please leave."
The face of Second Master Gu flushed and turned paled as he listened to her. "Yun'er, I'm still your uncle no matter what. Don't make things difficult for us. If we were not able to bring you back, Young Master Dongfang would never ever let us off easily. Please help me with this favor, will you?"
In actual truth, the Gu family could save all these troubles by just telling Dongfang Shaoze the whereabouts of Gu Ruoyun. However, the Gu family was always more avaricious and what would they get in return by just giving him her address? What they really wanted was to let Gu Ruoyun build a good relationship with Dongfang Shaoze so that they could benefit from this as well.
It was just too bad that things would rarely go as they wished...
"What if I refused to go back?" Gu Ruoyun replied the middle-aged man in front of her with a smile, "How do you guys plan to deal with me then?"
"You little brat! How dare you?!" Not able to hold it in anymore, Second Madam shouted out loudly, "You ungrateful little bitch! We, the Gu family, raised you up till what you have become now and this is how you repay us? Such a malicious person you are! You really sure are the daughter of that doxy whore! You are just as much of a wench as she is!"
Even though Gu Ruoyun had never ever met her mother before, in her past life, her mother, who also was the guardian of her entire life, had always had a soft spot in her heart.
Therefore, having listened to the words of the Second Madam, her smile gradually turned cold and chilly. "You just made a fatal mistake. A mistake that is beyond repair."
Taken aback, Second Madam looked at Gu Ruoyun, dumbfounded.
She had never seen her in such a state before…
Under the caress of the light breeze, the young lady raised her delicate and pretty face gradually. Her body seemed as if it was covered with a layer of chilly air, invoking the hearts of those nearby to tremble ever so slightly. It was for unknown reasons that the young lady in front actually possessed a sense of presence that would make people look up to her with respect.
As though she was the ruler of the universe! With her supremacy exuding out overwhelmingly!
"Is this...the useless Lady Gu that we know of? Seems like the rumor is true after all! Gu Ruoyun is the most concealed person in the Imperial City…" Second Madam thought to herself.
"Go back and tell that Admiral of the Gu family that I, Gu Ruoyun, will never ever return to care for the Gu family! There is no need for you to waste your energy here anymore!"
As she was saying this, she threw a glance towards the Second Madam. From this glance, Second Master Gu instantaneously understood that it was the words of Second Madam that had provoked her, prompting her to refuse to return to the Gu family. At that exact moment, he burst with rage and glared at Second Madam ferociously.
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