The elders beside him were first stunned, then they seemed to be in deep thought. They turned around and whispered to each other.
"Gu Jian, didn't we lose the title because of you?" the patriarch asked coldly. Every word was heartbreaking. "You lost your ancestor's title, and now you want to defy the family rules?!"
The patriarch stared coldly at Gu Jian, the anger in his eyes surging.
Gu Jian felt like he had been slapped in the face again and again in public. His face was burning.
When he was in the imperial mansion, he had been holding his breath, but he was afraid that he would be disrespectful in front of the Imperial Mansion, so he could only suppress it. But now that they had already returned to the Marquis Mansion, the person he was facing wasn't a high up in the air Emperor with power over life and death, but an old man who didn't even have an official position.