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As for Rong Jian, he just silently watched from the side, being closest to his newly engaged wife and not a man of many words, he didn't have many close acquaintances in the first place anyways.
"Minister Bai, it's not a good idea for you to air out your dirty laundry here, is it?" Bai Yaoxuan addressed the man formally. In actuality, this was indeed no longer the Bai Yaoxuan that they knew, as Shen Tianyu's Yaoyao had taken charge of the body. Though the body remained the same, the person residing within it was no longer the same person. When she had first transmigrated into this world Bai Yaoxuan had made no move to better her conditions, because she was still caught up over what had transpired before her death and the "good deed" she had done to her sworn older sister. She was too depressed to do anything and even thought she deserved it. Though she retained the memories of the original Bai Yaoxuan, the girl was kept away for most of her life so what she knew was mostly fundamental knowledge that even Bai Yaoxuan could attain just by wandering the streets for a day or two so she had deemed her memories not useful and tucked them away. Looking back at it now, the cause of the original's death seemed suspicious and the circumstances she had been forced into certainly did not arouse any warm feelings in Bai Yaoxuan who already coldly regarded this family as strangers.
It was only in one of her first attempts to leave the residence did Bai Yaoxuan stumble across a woman who resembled her sister Lingling and she started following them from there. Though there were some changes in the other woman's facial features, her air of effortless calm and the happy-go-lucky persona masking a more calculative darkness was something no one else could ever replicate. Even the people that had plastic surgery in their previous life to look like Lingling in order to scam others could never replicate that aura. The smarter targets would always feel something was wrong with the scammer even if their facial features and everything else looked just like Lingling.
"The fact that you didn't realize your own blood daughter had disappeared from your residence for a whole month, isn't something you can easily explain is it? Not to mention the fact that you only now realized I might not have been at the residence when you saw me here, at this Banquet hall. I reckon if I wasn't here tonight, you might never know I wasn't in your residence even if I washed up on the shore as a corpse." Bai Yaoxuan continued.
"T-That's not true at all, Yaoxuan. It was dimu's fault for not taking proper care of you all right? Please, just come back with us? I'll give you lots of valuable cloth and even some medicinal goods all right?" The woman's smile was starting to strain.
"Fine. Since you want to act virtuous then I want to ask you, how did mother die?" Bai Yaoxuan's eyes narrowed at the woman who was hiding behind her husband. She was going to reply until Bai Yaoxuan kept bulldozing. "Why haven't you taken me to any social gatherings? Why haven't you let me know anyone outside of the residence's servants? Why don't I even know the faces of my other siblings? Why did my body keep getting weaker and weaker every time you sent me so-called "medicines"? Why is there poison gathered in my dantian that's preventing me from cultivating? Zhu Yazai, answer me! If you want me to go back with you tonight, answer my questions, right here, right now and I might consider it!" Bai Yaoxuan's voice raised as she kept going until she pointed at the carpeted floor of the Banquet hall to further emphasize her "right here, right now".
Zhu Yazai, the original name of Minister Bai's rightful wife, had her eyes blown wide as a slow loris[1]. Minister Bai hesitantly looked towards his wife, at which she took the cue to retract her expression and put on a pitying look as if she had been wronged. The people further away might not have seen as they were facing the couple's backs but the officials, children and Wangye nearby saw her surprised face clearly.
"This... husband, I really don't know about any of this. Perhaps it was one of the servants bullying Yaoxuan that did such horrible things to her. It is all this one's fault for not watching over the inner residence properly. This wife will definitely look for the perpetrator and discipline them accordingly." Zhu Yazai spoke in a voice of self-blame.
"Zhu Yazai, you still haven't answered my questions!" Bai Yaoxuan yelled loud enough for the entire Banquet hall to hear despite her non-existent cultivation. She was seething as the memories of the previous owner of her body that she had tucked away once again started flooding her mind. The treatment she received from both her guardians, one of them being her blood father, the sadness of loosing her birth mother, the hurt from being treated coldly and sneered at by the servants that were supposed to be beneath her, the despair when she realized she never would be able to step half a foot out of that dingy little shack called a courtyard, and the horror when she realized her birth mother's death might not have been natural. All that along with the child's hope of gaining even a glance of attention from her father, a single word of praise from her dimu, the yearning for a pat on the head like her birth mother used to do, a soft smile from her grandmother, a meal with the rest of the family.
"Yaoxuan, that's no way to address your dimu." Minister Bai frowned at Bai Yaoxuan who was obviously upset. Before he realized it, a heavy weight had falled on his chest and he shot out of the Banquet hall, landing in one of the pillars right outside and creating a human-sized dent on the red magnificence.
[1] an endangered species of nocturnal primates found in South and Southeast Asia that are hunted as part of a pet trade, medicine trade or photo prop opportunities with tourists
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As for Rong Jian, he just silently watched from the side, being closest to his newly engaged wife and not a man of many words, he didn't have many close acquaintances in the first place anyways.
"Minister Bai, it's not a good idea for you to air out your dirty laundry here, is it?" Bai Yaoxuan addressed the man formally. In actuality, this was indeed no longer the Bai Yaoxuan that they knew, as Shen Tianyu's Yaoyao had taken charge of the body. Though the body remained the same, the person residing within it was no longer the same person. When she had first transmigrated into this world Bai Yaoxuan had made no move to better her conditions, because she was still caught up over what had transpired before her death and the "good deed" she had done to her sworn older sister. She was too depressed to do anything and even thought she deserved it. Though she retained the memories of the original Bai Yaoxuan, the girl was kept away for most of her life so what she knew was mostly fundamental knowledge that even Bai Yaoxuan could attain just by wandering the streets for a day or two so she had deemed her memories not useful and tucked them away. Looking back at it now, the cause of the original's death seemed suspicious and the circumstances she had been forced into certainly did not arouse any warm feelings in Bai Yaoxuan who already coldly regarded this family as strangers.
It was only in one of her first attempts to leave the residence did Bai Yaoxuan stumble across a woman who resembled her sister Lingling and she started following them from there. Though there were some changes in the other woman's facial features, her air of effortless calm and the happy-go-lucky persona masking a more calculative darkness was something no one else could ever replicate. Even the people that had plastic surgery in their previous life to look like Lingling in order to scam others could never replicate that aura. The smarter targets would always feel something was wrong with the scammer even if their facial features and everything else looked just like Lingling.
"The fact that you didn't realize your own blood daughter had disappeared from your residence for a whole month, isn't something you can easily explain is it? Not to mention the fact that you only now realized I might not have been at the residence when you saw me here, at this Banquet hall. I reckon if I wasn't here tonight, you might never know I wasn't in your residence even if I washed up on the shore as a corpse." Bai Yaoxuan continued.
"T-That's not true at all, Yaoxuan. It was dimu's fault for not taking proper care of you all right? Please, just come back with us? I'll give you lots of valuable cloth and even some medicinal goods all right?" The woman's smile was starting to strain.
"Fine. Since you want to act virtuous then I want to ask you, how did mother die?" Bai Yaoxuan's eyes narrowed at the woman who was hiding behind her husband. She was going to reply until Bai Yaoxuan kept bulldozing. "Why haven't you taken me to any social gatherings? Why haven't you let me know anyone outside of the residence's servants? Why don't I even know the faces of my other siblings? Why did my body keep getting weaker and weaker every time you sent me so-called "medicines"? Why is there poison gathered in my dantian that's preventing me from cultivating? Zhu Yazai, answer me! If you want me to go back with you tonight, answer my questions, right here, right now and I might consider it!" Bai Yaoxuan's voice raised as she kept going until she pointed at the carpeted floor of the Banquet hall to further emphasize her "right here, right now".
Zhu Yazai, the original name of Minister Bai's rightful wife, had her eyes blown wide as a slow loris[1]. Minister Bai hesitantly looked towards his wife, at which she took the cue to retract her expression and put on a pitying look as if she had been wronged. The people further away might not have seen as they were facing the couple's backs but the officials, children and Wangye nearby saw her surprised face clearly.
"This... husband, I really don't know about any of this. Perhaps it was one of the servants bullying Yaoxuan that did such horrible things to her. It is all this one's fault for not watching over the inner residence properly. This wife will definitely look for the perpetrator and discipline them accordingly." Zhu Yazai spoke in a voice of self-blame.
"Zhu Yazai, you still haven't answered my questions!" Bai Yaoxuan yelled loud enough for the entire Banquet hall to hear despite her non-existent cultivation. She was seething as the memories of the previous owner of her body that she had tucked away once again started flooding her mind. The treatment she received from both her guardians, one of them being her blood father, the sadness of loosing her birth mother, the hurt from being treated coldly and sneered at by the servants that were supposed to be beneath her, the despair when she realized she never would be able to step half a foot out of that dingy little shack called a courtyard, and the horror when she realized her birth mother's death might not have been natural. All that along with the child's hope of gaining even a glance of attention from her father, a single word of praise from her dimu, the yearning for a pat on the head like her birth mother used to do, a soft smile from her grandmother, a meal with the rest of the family.
"Yaoxuan, that's no way to address your dimu." Minister Bai frowned at Bai Yaoxuan who was obviously upset. Before he realized it, a heavy weight had falled on his chest and he shot out of the Banquet hall, landing in one of the pillars right outside and creating a human-sized dent on the red magnificence.
[1] an endangered species of nocturnal primates found in South and Southeast Asia that are hunted as part of a pet trade, medicine trade or photo prop opportunities with tourists
As for Rong Jian, he just silently watched from the side, being closest to his newly engaged wife and not a man of many words, he didn't have many close acquaintances in the first place anyways."Minister Bai, it's not a good idea for you to air out your dirty laundry here, is it?" Bai Yaoxuan addressed the man formally. In actuality, this was indeed no longer the Bai Yaoxuan that they knew, as Shen Tianyu's Yaoyao had taken charge of the body. Though the body remained the same, the person residing within it was no longer the same person. When she had first transmigrated into this world Bai Yaoxuan had made no move to better her conditions, because she was still caught up over what had transpired before her death and the "good deed" she had done to her sworn older sister. She was too depressed to do anything and even thought she deserved it. Though she retained the memories of the original Bai Yaoxuan, the girl was kept away for most of her life so what she knew was mostly fundamental knowledge that even Bai Yaoxuan could attain just by wandering the streets for a day or two so she had deemed her memories not useful and tucked them away. Looking back at it now, the cause of the original's death seemed suspicious and the circumstances she had been forced into certainly did not arouse any warm feelings in Bai Yaoxuan who already coldly regarded this family as strangers.It was only in one of her first attempts to leave the residence did Bai Yaoxuan stumble across a woman who resembled her sister Lingling and she started following them from there. Though there were some changes in the other woman's facial features, her air of effortless calm and the happy-go-lucky persona masking a more calculative darkness was something no one else could ever replicate. Even the people that had plastic surgery in their previous life to look like Lingling in order to scam others could never replicate that aura. The smarter targets would always feel something was wrong with the scammer even if their facial features and everything else looked just like Lingling."The fact that you didn't realize your own blood daughter had disappeared from your residence for a whole month, isn't something you can easily explain is it? Not to mention the fact that you only now realized I might not have been at the residence when you saw me here, at this Banquet hall. I reckon if I wasn't here tonight, you might never know I wasn't in your residence even if I washed up on the shore as a corpse." Bai Yaoxuan continued."T-That's not true at all, Yaoxuan. It was dimu's fault for not taking proper care of you all right? Please, just come back with us? I'll give you lots of valuable cloth and even some medicinal goods all right?" The woman's smile was starting to strain."Fine. Since you want to act virtuous then I want to ask you, how did mother die?" Bai Yaoxuan's eyes narrowed at the woman who was hiding behind her husband. She was going to reply until Bai Yaoxuan kept bulldozing. "Why haven't you taken me to any social gatherings? Why haven't you let me know anyone outside of the residence's servants? Why don't I even know the faces of my other siblings? Why did my body keep getting weaker and weaker every time you sent me so-called "medicines"? Why is there poison gathered in my dantian that's preventing me from cultivating? Zhu Yazai, answer me! If you want me to go back with you tonight, answer my questions, right here, right now and I might consider it!" Bai Yaoxuan's voice raised as she kept going until she pointed at the carpeted floor of the Banquet hall to further emphasize her "right here, right now".Zhu Yazai, the original name of Minister Bai's rightful wife, had her eyes blown wide as a slow loris1. Minister Bai hesitantly looked towards his wife, at which she took the cue to retract her expression and put on a pitying look as if she had been wronged. The people further away might not have seen as they were facing the couple's backs but the officials, children and Wangye nearby saw her surprised face clearly."This... husband, I really don't know about any of this. Perhaps it was one of the servants bullying Yaoxuan that did such horrible things to her. It is all this one's fault for not watching over the inner residence properly. This wife will definitely look for the perpetrator and discipline them accordingly." Zhu Yazai spoke in a voice of self-blame."Zhu Yazai, you still haven't answered my questions!" Bai Yaoxuan yelled loud enough for the entire Banquet hall to hear despite her non-existent cultivation. She was seething as the memories of the previous owner of her body that she had tucked away once again started flooding her mind. The treatment she received from both her guardians, one of them being her blood father, the sadness of loosing her birth mother, the hurt from being treated coldly and sneered at by the servants that were supposed to be beneath her, the despair when she realized she never would be able to step half a foot out of that dingy little shack called a courtyard, and the horror when she realized her birth mother's death might not have been natural. All that along with the child's hope of gaining even a glance of attention from her father, a single word of praise from her dimu, the yearning for a pat on the head like her birth mother used to do, a soft smile from her grandmother, a meal with the rest of the family."Yaoxuan, that's no way to address your dimu." Minister Bai frowned at Bai Yaoxuan who was obviously upset. Before he realized it, a heavy weight had falled on his chest and he shot out of the Banquet hall, landing in one of the pillars right outside and creating a human-sized dent on the red magnificence.1 an endangered species of nocturnal primates found in South and Southeast Asia that are hunted as part of a pet trade, medicine trade or photo prop opportunities with tourists
