Chapter 10

Everyone around them had the same voice in their heart; that all that was happening in front of them was like what you’d see in a play.

Gu Momo reacted only after a long time. She just heard Su Kui’s self-introduction and broke into a cold sweat in shock.

It was hard on her, an old lady who was supposed to be enjoying the joys of the world, but instead, she had to be worried about Su Kui all day long.

This was Jun Mo! Jun Mo, who held the entirety of Da Yuan within his palm! The true regent in all senses, the master behind Da Yuan.

She shuddered, fell to her knees, and said tremblingly, “Greetings to Wang Ye. Asking for Wang Ye’s atonement¹, if my miss had inadvertently offended you, I hope that you will be the bigger person.”

¹TN: Asking for atonement was a much older way of asking for forgiveness.

Gu Momo’s actions shocked the large group of people awake. Thus, following the sounds of rustling, the large group of people had knelt down outside the palace’s vermillion doorstep.

Su Kui frowned inconspicuously. Internally, she was thankful that this body she got was handicapped so she didn’t have to kneel and bow her head everywhere in these ancient times, where the higher and lower ranks were particularly distinct.

She personally thought that this action of hers was hidden very well, but it fully fell into Jun Mo’s eyes. Somehow, Jun Mo felt uncomfortable seeing her unhappy expression.

Simply fallen into a trance and didn’t even have any self-realization!

He shook his sleeves with a cold face, “All rise!” And then said to Gu Momo, who refused to get up, “You can also get up. Ben Wang will not blame her!”

However, Su Kui suddenly reacted like she just realized, staring at him with two bright cat pupils in surprise, “You were actually a Wang Ye!”

What do you mean by you were actually a Wang Ye!

Gu Momo only felt that her vision in front grew black. Originally she thought that the Miss had finally grown up after that catastrophe a few months ago, but she never thought——

Turned out that it was just accumulating for a big move!

It was then that a slender young girl in a green dress suddenly ran out from the crowd. She threw herself down and knelt on the ground with a thud, vigorously kowtowing towards Jun Mo. That pretty face was like pear flowers sprinkled with rain to anyone who saw.

“Wang Ye, my sister, she has probably been demonized ! She was not like this in the past. This time, for an unknown reason, she actually began to spout nonsense. Wang Ye, please spare her this once in view of my father’s face!”

Jun Mo frowned. What was wrong with this girl? And also these baffling words that came out of nowhere, was she deaf just now? Didn’t she hear him promise Gu Momo that he would not be angry with her miss?

But evidently, he was still someone who had been in the center of power since he was a child. He knew what was going on in less than half a second.

His peripheral vision saw that Su Kui still had a nonchalant look. Her cherry lips were pulled into a smile as though she was watching a play as she looked at the girl in the green dress.

He joyfully cooperated, “Oh? Father is?”

The girl’s heart was filled with joy. She forced down that feeling of her heart wanting to jump out of her chest with a crying voice, “Father is the current Dynasty’s Grand Tutor Feng Chengzhi. Wang Ye, please be the bigger person and spare sister!”

Jun Mo did not reply to her harping, but was more interested in Su Kui, “You just said that she was not like this in the past, then what was she like before?”

“This…” Feng Qing Qing’s eyes flickered and had a bitter expression like she couldn’t say it out loud.

Gu Momo originally thought that Feng Qing Qing was genuinely pleading. Only then did she know that a Shu will always be a Shu, she would never be fit to be brought out in the open.

She hadn’t even become the Princess Consort yet and she was already hurriedly giving people eye-drops² for her Di sister!

²TN: Basically contorting people’s views of someone or creating misunderstandings about that person through her words

“Pfffft—” Su Kui couldn’t hold back her laughter. She coughed a few times and casted a side-long glance at Feng Qing Qing. She pointed at her and sneered mercilessly. “Sheesh you, you really don’t let go of even the slightest of opportunities to slander me. What did you want to say? That I was arrogant and despotic in the past? That I criticized and treated the servants harshly, and disrespected the elders type of thing?”

The edge of Feng Qing Qing’s eyes were filled with tears, her wide eyes stared at Su Kui in sorrow, staring with disbelief, “Sister, what are you talking about? How would Qing Qing ever dare?!”