"Was this sachet also a gift from the Princess?"
Su Liluo rummaged through her clothes and pulled out a very exquisite and beautiful apricot-colored sachet. The faint fruity and medicinal scent was emanating from this sachet.
"Yes, this is a sachet from our Northern Desert. Women here like to wear these with them, as it makes them smell nice and more attractive."
The maid said with a smile, her face showing no sign of anything amiss.
"I see, it does smell very good."
Su Liluo gently put down the sachet, sighed, and turned around.
Just as she turned around, she caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of a clear sense of relief on the maid's face.
There's something wrong with this thing!
She immediately realized that the banquet in two days was probably a trap for her!
Recalling the look of surprise, jealousy, and hatred in the Regent's wife's eyes when she first met him, and her strong opposition to Gao Junning marrying him, he knew that this woman would definitely cause trouble.
However, she was currently under someone else's roof and had no choice but to act according to the circumstances.
*
Two days later.
The banquet arrived as scheduled, and the courtyard was filled with guests.
The Regent's residence is very large, so even with many people coming, it doesn't feel crowded; on the contrary, it looks very prosperous.
Su Liluo, led by her maid, also went to attend the banquet.
"Oh, so that's the woman the Crown Prince of Liang didn't want? She's nothing special. No wonder the Crown Prince of Liang didn't want her, and she had to come to our Northern Desert to steal a man!"
Just as Su Liluo was passing through a garden, she suddenly heard a mocking female voice.
After the woman finished speaking, several others joined in with laughter.
"I don't know what kind of spell she cast on Young Master Gao, but he actually dared to go against the Regent's Consort. In my opinion, she's a femme fatale!"
"What beauty? She's been married before, she must be quite old, at most a middle-aged woman."
"Haha, Sister Yi'er is right. She's definitely older than Young Master Gao. I bet in a couple of years he'll get tired of her and want to be our Young Master Gao's wife. I wonder if she's even qualified!"
The women chatted amongst themselves, completely ignoring Su Liluo.
Su Liluo looked in the direction of the sound and saw five or six women gradually emerging from behind the flowerbed, one of whom was Gao Yufei.
Gao Yufei hadn't said anything just now, and now she was just looking at him with a provocative smile in her eyes.
The other women were also staring intently at her, their eyes filled with undisguised jealousy.
Although they had been belittling her, when they got closer and saw Su Liluo's face, they had to admit that it was indeed extremely beautiful.
"Oh dear, there's a huge bug here!"
Just as Su Liluo and the others were locked in eye contact, a woman next to her suddenly screamed and stretched out a slender, delicate hand, about to slap her face.
Fortunately, Su Liluo reacted quickly, and she keenly sensed that the woman seemed to be hiding some kind of poison under her fingernails.
She quickly dodged to the side and then quietly kicked a small stone to the woman's feet.
"Ouch!"
A sharp scream rang out from the woman, and she fell to the ground like a monkey.
"How dare you, Su Liluo, injure someone here!"
"Miss Zhifu, are you alright? Someone, quickly help Miss Zhifu up!"
When Gao Yufei and the others saw the woman fall, they immediately pointed at Su Liluo angrily and cursed.
"Which eye of yours saw me hurt someone? What did I use to hurt her? Which part of her body was injured by me?"
Su Liluo asked three questions in a row without any guilt.
Although she didn't like Gao Junning and hadn't originally planned to get into a conflict with these women because of him, since they actually tried to poison her, she wouldn't be polite.
She's not a tortoise; she doesn't need to endure everything.
"You... if you hadn't dodged, Miss Zhifu wouldn't have fallen, so it's all your fault!"
Gao Yufei looked at her and accused her as if she were being unreasonable.
Yes, she never needs a reason to curse.
"Ha, you mean I'm just supposed to stand here and wait for her to hit me? Do you think I'm stupid, or do you really not realize there's something wrong with your head?!"
Su Lilu chuckled lightly, sounding annoyed.
Then, he lifted his leg, intending to leave.
Before she could even take a step, Gao Yufei domineeringly ordered her servants to block Su Liluo's path.
"You're not leaving today unless you kneel down and apologize to Miss Zhifu!"
Gao Yufei looked at her arrogantly with her chin raised, her eyes full of smug provocation.
"That's right, Miss Su, you've gone too far. If it weren't for you, Miss Zhifu wouldn't have fallen like this. You should know that Miss Zhifu is the daughter of the Grand Tutor. I think just apologizing is too lenient for you."
"That's right. In my opinion, Miss Zhifu should slap her twice as punishment."
Two women with mean-looking faces also stepped forward, deliberately making things difficult for them.
They were all summoned by Gao Yufei to deliberately make things difficult for Su Liluo. Gao Yufei knew that these women all liked her brother, so she deliberately spoke ill of Su Liluo in front of them.
In their eyes, the reason Gao Junning wanted to marry this second-marriage woman from Daliang was because she used some underhanded methods.
Furthermore, they genuinely believed that Su Liluo was dumped by the Crown Prince of Daliang because she had hurt Gao Yufei.
Gao Yufei twisted the truth in front of them, claiming that her bad reputation was due to Su Liluo's jealousy and framing, while she and the Crown Prince of Daliang were in love with each other.
“You’re right, then punish her by making her kneel down and apologize to Miss Zhifu, and let Miss Zhifu slap her twice!”
Gao Yufei smiled mischievously.
She was just worried that the powder hadn't gotten on Su Liluo's face. Once she was disfigured, she'd see if her father and brother would still want her!
But would Su Liluo give them that chance?
No sooner had Gao Yufei finished speaking than Su Liluo shouted behind them, "Regent!"
Then, Gao Yufei and the others looked behind them in fear, and were about to bow in respect when a blur of motion swiftly brushed past them.
Su Liluo took the opportunity to slip away from them.
"You scoundrels! Seize her right now! How dare you try to fool me!"
Gao Yufei gritted her teeth and cursed, then lifted her skirt and chased after Su Liluo.
At this moment, Gao Junning, who was standing in the pavilion not far away, had seen everything that had just happened.
He knew about Gao Yufei's attempt to bully Su Liluo with a few women. The reason he didn't intervene was that he felt it was acceptable for Su Liluo to be bullied a little, as long as it wasn't too excessive.
Su Liluo's performance just now surprised him.
It seems she really is different from other noble ladies; no wonder the Crown Prince of Liang likes her so much.
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