Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye who was still standing there, walked over to her, took her hand, and brought her to his parents: "Dad, Mom, she is Yun Xiangye."

Yun Xiangye followed Gu Yan's steps and came to Princess Sheng Zhao. She whispered, "Father-in-law, Mother."

Yun Xiangye looked at the couple in front of her and saw a flash of surprise in their eyes. It seemed that they had never expected that she would be their daughter-in-law.

Yun Xiangye looked at the clothes she was wearing. She thought they were made of the most fashionable fabrics. However, in front of the most noble people in the world, she looked even inferior to the servants around the eldest princess.

No wonder, when the princess saw her, she didn't think of herself as her daughter-in-law.

For this reason, Yun Xiangye was even more annoyed with Gu Yan. If he had told her his identity earlier, she would have had time to prepare her clothes.

Princess Sheng Zhao smiled faintly and said, "Xiangye, you must have traveled hard all the way. Come back to the palace and rest. Today our family is finally reunited."

Yun Xiangye replied in a low voice, "Yes."

Princess Sheng Zhao stepped forward and took the soft and chewy little ball from Gu Jingyu's hands. "This is Nuonuo, right?"

Gu Yan smiled faintly, "Yes, she is Nuonuo, Nuonuo, this is my grandmother."

Xiao Nuonuo said in a baby voice, "Grandma."

Princess Sheng Zhao held the child in her arms and smiled faintly, "What a sensible little Nuonuo."

The maidservant beside Princess Sheng Zhao handed over a pair of gold bracelets. Princess Sheng Zhao smiled and said, "Little Nuonuo, these are the gold bracelets that your grandmother gave you."

Yun Xiangye saw the maid beside the princess take off the silver bracelet on Nuonuo's hand and replace it with a gold bracelet.

Yun Xiangye felt a little relieved when she saw the joy in the princess' eyes towards her daughter. She was not afraid of being disliked. Although her daughter was less than two years old, Nuonuo was very sensible. Little Nuonuo knew that others did not like her.

Gu Jingyu smiled faintly and said, "Brother, Nuonuo is very cute, even cuter than Jingru. Nuonuo is a hundred times more obedient than her."

"Jingru is?"

Gu Yan looked at his sister. He didn't know who Jingru was.

Gu Jingyu said, "My dear sister, not long after you left Chang'an City, mother realized that you were pregnant. Jingru was still young, so mother has not been to Jiangnan to visit sister-in-law and Nuonuo for the past three years."

Gu Yan looked at his parents in surprise. In the two years of correspondence, they had never told him that they had a little sister who was about the same age as their daughter.

Gu Jingyu still complained to Gu Yan: "Jingru was often sick when she was one year old. She started to make trouble when she was two years old. Now she is over three years old, and her troubles are getting worse and worse. Everything depends on her temper. Mother also said that I was like this when I was a child. I was not so naughty when I was a child."

Gu Yan smiled and said, "You were indeed this naughty when you were a child."

Yun Xiangye stood aside, watching Gu Yan and Gu Jingyu chatting. She felt that she was a little out of place.

Yun Xiangye caught a glimpse of someone's gaze. She looked over and saw that it was the woman who had just called Gu Yan "cousin" still sizing her up. The look in her cousin's eyes was filled with undisguised contempt and ridicule...

Princess Sheng Zhao smiled faintly and said, "Hurry up and get in the carriage and go back to the mansion. You've been tired all the way here, so you should rest well when you get home."

When Yun Xiangye heard the princess' words, she followed Gu Yan closely and got into the carriage with him.

Seeing the spacious interior of the carriage, Yun Xiangye remembered that her daughter was still with Princess Sheng Zhao: "Nuonuo."

Gu Yan held Yun Xiangye's hand and said, "Nuonuo is in mother's carriage, don't worry. It will take about half an hour to get to the Princess's residence. Why don't you rest for a while."

Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan and said, "Why didn't you tell me before that you had a sister who was fourteen or fifteen years old? I didn't even prepare a gift for her."

Gu Yan smiled and said, "You don't need to be so polite to your own sister. Besides, she has been raised in luxury since she was a child. She doesn't lack anything. Instead, you are wasting your kindness."

Yun Xiangye frowned slightly. Was Gu Yanzhi saying that she had bad taste, or that she came from a poor family?

Can’t give a gift that matches his sister’s status?

Seeing Yun Xiangye's expression was off, Gu Yan asked, "Why are you still unhappy? You've met my parents, and you've seen that they don't seem to dislike your background, right?"

Yun Xiangye lowered her head and said nothing. What she cared about was not her in-laws' dislike for her, but Gu Yan.

Gu Yan whispered, "You don't have to be afraid of your low status. My mother grew up among the common people and wasn't always a high-ranking princess. Like you, her adoptive father died when she was young, and she had to support a family."

"My mother wasn't a princess when she was young. Because she came from a merchant family, she suffered a lot in her husband's family. My mother even married my father as a second marriage, so no one in our family would look down on your background."

Yun Xiangye listened to Gu Yanzhi's words and remained silent.

She originally thought that she was just entering the gate of a wealthy businessman's home, but now she was told that she was entering the gate of the current princess's mansion. She really couldn't accept it for a while.

When Gu Yan's family looked at her just now, it was obvious that they did not expect that the girl Gu Yan married would be so ordinary.

When the eldest princess saw her, she asked where Yun Xiangye was, which showed that the eldest princess only regarded her as a maid and servant.

Moreover, cousin Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye with contempt. Yun Xiangye really didn't know how to go on living like this.

She was in a state of confusion for a moment, and she wanted to retreat. How could it be so easy to enter the door of a royal family?

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On the last carriage back to the princess's mansion.

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