Seeing that Su Ruojin still didn't make any move and was just looking at her calmly, Zhao Jingyi instantly burst into tears, "Princess, you still won't forgive me?"

Upon hearing Zhao Jingyi's words, the people at the Zhao family's old residence looked at Su Ruojin with some resentment in their eyes.

Although Su Ruojin is the granddaughter adopted by the old lady, and even though she is a princess, strictly speaking, she is not a member of the Zhao family, and she is not even a member of Yunqi.

Zhao Jingyi is, after all, the granddaughter of the family head and the current concubine of the Third Prince of Yunqi. The fact that she was willing to kneel down and apologize to her in front of the entire clan is already a great honor for her. No matter how big the mistake was, this princess should take the opportunity to back down.

The clan head felt a pang of pity, but since Su Ruojin was a princess, he dared not speak directly to Zhao Guangtao. He could only ask Zhao Guangtao in a low voice, "Clan head, what do you think of this..."

Zhao Guangtao couldn't understand what Zhao Jingyi was up to either. Based on his understanding of Zhao Jingyi, she was a very proud person and would never do something like kneeling down to apologize in public.

Could it be that she has genuinely repented?

A glimmer of hope arose in Zhao Guangtao's heart. If Zhao Jingyi was truly repentant, perhaps Xiao Jin would let her off the hook, or at least prevent her from suffering too much in the future.

"Xiao Jin, why don't you just accept it? It's a small token of Yi'er's appreciation. As for the rest, we can talk about it later," Zhao Guangtao advised.

It wouldn't look good to freeze like this in front of so many people.

Su Ruojin understood Zhao Guangtao's meaning. Her great-uncle was reasonable enough; he only asked her to accept the gifts, but did not ask her to forgive Zhao Jingyi.

"Yanluo," Su Ruojin called out.

Yanluo immediately understood her meaning and came up to take the tray from Lvliu's hands.

Zhao Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Su Ruojin was willing to accept these things.

With Green Willow's help, she slowly rose to her feet. "Princess, I know you still don't believe I'm truly willing to change, but I will prove it to you."

After speaking, she bowed slightly to Su Ruojin and returned to her seat.

Seeing that the matter was settled, the elder of the clan hurriedly stepped in to smooth things over, "Alright, the patriarch must be tired after traveling all day. Everyone, please disperse and go back to prepare. We will set off at dawn tomorrow to officially begin the ancestral worship ceremony."

After the clan elder spoke, the clan members bowed to Zhao Guangtao and took their leave.

Su Ruojin returned to her room, where Yanluo nervously carried a tray. She refused to believe that Zhao Jingyi could genuinely repent, always suspecting some conspiracy. She dared not touch these things, fearing they might be contaminated with poison.

The incident with the flowerpot soil last time left her with lingering fears. This time, the young lady didn't bring Mao Mao with her. What if Zhao Jingyi tampered with the jewelry again, and some poisonous creature emerged in the middle of the night?

Su Ruojin carefully examined the jewelry and found nothing wrong with it.

She didn't believe Zhao Jingyi was the kind of person who would repent.

If Zhao Jingyi were that kind of person, she wouldn't have allowed an innocent child to be kidnapped to threaten Butler Lu.

Su Ruojin couldn't figure out for a moment why Zhao Jingyi was making such a fuss today.

Even if she didn't notice anything wrong with the jewelry, to put it another way, if someone really tampered with the jewelry and wanted to trick her, she would have to wear it first.

Zhao Jingyi must have known that she might not wear the jewelry she received, so why bother with this trick?

"Miss, should I throw all of these away?" Yanluo was still worried. She wasn't someone who was easily swayed by trivial matters. Her young mistress had plenty of these things; safety came first.

Su Ruojin smiled and said, "Why throw them away? These things can be sold for a lot of money. Why not take them back to Li He and let him open a few more orphanages?"

Yanluo thought about it and agreed, so she had no choice but to put the things away.

Meanwhile, Zhao Jingyi returned to her room, her heart aching with resentment, yet she dared not refuse to see him off.