She was not surprised by the Li family's behavior, which could be summed up in eight words: "bullying the good and fearing the evil, and fawning on the powerful."

Li Yunmeng did not stop, but walked slowly towards Gu Yanfei, until she was three steps away from her.

The two stood facing each other.

Gu Yanfei stared straight at Li Yunmeng, with the corners of his naturally upturned lips seeming to be smiling, or mocking.

Li Yun'er stood with her hands hanging down gracefully, the apricot-leaf-shaped red gold earrings on her earlobes dangling beside her snow-white cheeks, swaying and shining.

She just thought that Gu Yanfei wanted to see how miserable she was at the moment, but she didn't know that Gu Yanfei was actually observing her luck.

A thick black aura lingered around Li Yun'er, swirling and boiling, almost covering the color of her clothes, and the air around her seemed a little distorted.

There were faint specks of golden light mixed into the black air, like stars in the night sky that appeared and disappeared from time to time, as if they would be swallowed up by the darkness at any time.

Since his rebirth, Gu Yanfei has always been avoiding direct conflict with Li Yunmeng, because this is no different from directly confronting the way of heaven.

She's not stupid.

However, she knew that the laws of nature would never unconditionally favor one side forever.

It would be enough as long as Heaven is disappointed in the Son of Destiny.

This is what Master told me in the past.

This time, Gu Yanfei revealed Li Yunman's life experience not only to resolve her own inner demons, but also as a counterattack against Li Yunman.

Whether in her previous life or this life, Li Yunyan was very proud. She always said that birth did not represent everything and that a hero does not matter where he came from. However, although she said this, she never gave up the surname "Gu".

Gu Yanfei also wanted to see if Li Yunmeng really didn't care.

The answer is obvious.

Gu Yanfei stared at the black luck around Li Yunyan, thinking of the strange phenomenon the day before yesterday, raised the corners of his lips and said lightly: "Not bad."

What's good? Li Yunyan was confused by what Gu Yanfei said.

After a moment of hesitation, Li Yunyan pursed her lips tightly together, still staring at Gu Yanfei without blinking. Was Gu Yanfei mocking her? !

Li Yunyan sneered in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. Instead, she smiled elegantly and said, "I didn't expect you to come."

Her smile was friendly, as if there was no discord between them.

"Didn't you invite me here?" Gu Yanfei had no interest in playing pointless tricks with Li Yunyan, so he made it clear, "I'm here to make you look better, right?"

"Yes." Li Yunyan forced a smile, pinched his palm quietly, nodded nonchalantly, and said, "Please come in."

She held out her hand in invitation.

But Gu Yanfei did not move. He raised his hand and gestured to Juanbi, saying, "Don't bother. I'm here to put on some makeup for you. After that, it's time to leave."

At the same time, Juanbi handed a red lacquered wooden box to Xia Lian.

"Gu Yanfei, don't you want to come in and sit down?" Li Yunyi looked at her deeply, "Don't you want to see where I live now?"

There was a hint of self-mockery in her expression and tone.

At this moment, Li Zhaodi's scream of pain interrupted their conversation.

Li Hao bit Li Zhaodi's wrist hard. Li Zhaodi had no choice but to let him go and covered the wound on her wrist with a painful look on her face.

Li Hao held his neck high and complained to Aunt Li angrily: "Grandma, my elder sister bullied me!"

"You're a money-loser!" Aunt Li was filled with rage. Without thinking, she raised her hand and slapped Li Zhaodi hard on the face.

“Bang!”

The slap was extremely loud.

"..." Li Zhaodi covered her red and swollen face and ran away sobbing, while Li Hao hid behind Aunt Li and made faces smugly.

The whole family was in chaos.

Li Yunmeng has seen similar scenes more than once in the past two days. From the shame and embarrassment in the beginning, she has now been able to remain calm.

Even, he thought to himself with self-mockery: Doesn't Gu Yanfei just want to see me embarrassed? Then I will let her see it as she wishes! Li Yunyan ignored Li Hao and the others, and just stared at Gu Yanfei. The next moment, he saw Gu Yanfei nod casually: "Okay."

As expected, Li Yunyan sighed inwardly.

Led by Li Yunmeng, the two walked towards her house.

In the back, Aunt Li was still making indirect complaints: "I don't know what sin my Li family committed to give birth to two money-losing children. They are both troublesome, and as an elder sister, I don't know how to give in to my younger brother."

"I don't know what's the point of keeping you heartless bastards. It's just a waste of food!"

Aunt Li seemed to be scolding the sisters Li Zhaodi and Li Yun'er, but in fact she was also scolding Gu Yanfei.

Gu Yanfei didn't even move her eyes or eyebrows. When she was young in the Li family, she had heard similar scolding and even more rude insults countless times.

Now it is Li Yun'er's turn to suffer.

"..." Li Yun'er clenched his hands hidden in his sleeves again and slowly walked into the house.

She tried hard to control her emotions, hiding only the deepest coldness in her eyes, "Sit anywhere you want."

Gu Yanfei slowly looked around and sat down at the coffee table by the window.

Xia Lian quickly served hot tea to both of them. The aroma of Longjing tea lingered in the air, blending with the faint scent of incense in the room.

The room is elegantly decorated, forming a sharp contrast with the rough and messy courtyard outside, as if they are two completely different worlds.

Li Yunyan drank a sip of tea first, her eyelashes fluttering twice like butterfly wings, and took the initiative to show goodwill: "There are some misunderstandings between us, but we have never had the opportunity to sit down and talk properly."

"I want to tell you that I have never thought of taking anything away from you. Ever since you came back, I have been retreating again and again..."

"Now, everything has been returned to you. Should you be satisfied?"

She looked calm and tried to make her tone sound light, but there was a hint of hidden resentment in her voice.

Gu Yanfei did not answer immediately, but took two sips of the fine Longjing tea in the teacup, then slowly put it down and corrected: "You are wrong, mine is originally mine, you did not 'return' it to me."

"To be honest, your mother stole it for you. Stolen things are stolen goods. They were never yours. They should be returned to the original owner. Now it's just the principal. The interest has not yet been paid."

Gu Yanfei's voice was cold and without any warmth, seeming aggressive, completely different from his usual lazy and comfortable appearance.

It was like an eagle showing its sharp claws, so sharp and intimidating.

"..." Thinking of Su Niang, Li Yun'er's heart felt as if it was pierced by a needle, and it hurt, but his face remained expressionless.

This must be Gu Yanfei's true nature. She usually disguises herself as a harmless house cat, but in essence she is a ferocious jackal.

Gu Yanfei raised her hand and pushed open the window. With a creak, the wind from outside blew in, carrying with it Li Hao's loud sobbing: "Grandma, go tell Erya that I want this carriage!"

"Go and tell me, go and tell me now!"

Li Hao sat down on the stone floor in the courtyard. He kicked his legs around, then lay down, and then slapped the ground with his hands. He was almost rolling on the ground.

Aunt Li had no way to deal with her precious grandson, so she could only coax him with kind words: "Brother Hao, this carriage outside won't work."

"You want a carriage, Grandma will buy you a new one someday..."

"With your second sister here, a carriage is nothing."

In Aunt Li's heart, everything that belongs to Li Yunmeng naturally belongs to her grandson, and Li Yunmeng should take care of his younger brother. She said this with confidence.

"Look!" Gu Yanfei pointed at the grandparents and grandchildren outside, smiled softly, and said sharply, "This is yours."

"but……"

She slowly pointed at half of the house and said, "Everything here is not yours. The Li family is not so rich that they can afford to live in such a nice house."

“The Li family is just a family-born child.”

"I heard that it was you who freed them from slavery."

Li Yun'er was speechless about this.

Last year, after the truth about the real and fake daughter was exposed, she begged the old lady for mercy and released the Li family's slaves. The old lady felt sorry for her, so she agreed.

"Look, this is what you owe me." Gu Yanfei sneered and said, "Or, can you return the indenture of the Li family to me?"

"..." How could Li Yun'er agree? The hand holding the teacup trembled, and the scalding hot tea overflowed from the cup, rolling through her fingers and the back of her hand. But she seemed unaware of it, and just fixed her dark eyes on Gu Yanfei.

After a long while, she gritted her teeth and said, "Fifteen years ago, it was Su Niang who saved your life!"

Su Niang told her what happened back then. There was war in Yangzhou and smoke of war was everywhere. If Su Niang had been cruel and abandoned Gu Yanfei, Gu Yanfei would have died long ago.

"Really?" Gu Yanfei asked meaningfully, his eyes locked on Li Yun'er's, his eyes shining brightly.

"Of course it's true." Li Yunmeng said immediately.

The black energy around her surged even more violently, and seemed to spread into her pupils, making her dark eyes frighteningly black.

Gu Yanfei leaned forward and moved closer to Li Yunyan, who was sitting across the coffee table. The two were less than a foot apart. "Is that really the case?"

For a moment, the black energy around Li Yunmeng seemed to boil violently. He subconsciously stepped back a little, then immediately tensed up.

Gu Yanfei couldn't help but laugh, a faint smile.

She looked at Li Yunyan with a determined look, and said slowly and meaningfully: "You knew it a long time ago, right!"

"When did you know?"

She stepped back again, resting her chin with one hand leisurely, and said with a half-smile: "Let me guess?"

"Was it when we were in Yangzhou?"

Li Yun'er's pupils contracted, and her pale lips were forced to purse, and even the lines of her chin were tightened.

She didn't say anything, but Gu Yanfei didn't care whether she admitted it or not.

"Li Yunyan, have you forgotten that I can count?"

Gu Yanfei raised his left hand and counted twice casually. His beautiful and slender fingers seemed to be holding a cluster of light.

Li Yun'er's gaze was involuntarily drawn to her movements, and his breath was held.

Her eyes were as dark as a pool of stagnant water. She wanted to say something, but her throat was burning so much that she couldn't make a sound.

"You owe me so much." Gu Yanfei said as he stood up, gently waved his sleeves, and walked out without any reluctance, leaving behind a cold back.

Li Yun'er sat in the chair with an expressionless face.

She did not ask Xia Lian to see the guest off, nor did she follow him. She just watched Gu Yanfei walk out of the house and then appear in the courtyard outside.

"Second Miss...Second Miss Gu!" When Aunt Li, who was guarding the courtyard, saw Gu Yanfei, she ignored Li Hao who was lying on the ground and said with her hands rubbing, "Are you leaving so soon?"

"Why don't you stay and sit for a while?" When she smiled, her yellow upper teeth, with a missing front tooth, were exposed.

"Yes, yes." Father Li also groveled and showed an exaggerated smile, "Come and sit often in the future."

The mother and son of the Li family respectfully escorted Gu Yanfei and his servant out, and kept saying flattering words to them, as if the previous conflicts in Huaibei had never existed.

Li Yunmeng was still sitting on a chair by the window, staring blankly at Gu Yanfei as she walked out of the gate of the house and disappeared from her sight.

She just sat there, not moving for a very long time, like a stone sculpture, letting the spring breeze carrying flower petals blow on her face and body.

After a while, Xia Lian, who had seen Gu Yanfei off, came back in a hurry and walked straight to Li Yunmeng.

Li Yun's eyelashes trembled, and he still looked out the window, and asked calmly: "Has the message been delivered?"

"It has been delivered." Xia Lian reported carefully.

Li Yunyan waved his hand casually, and Xia Lian stepped back silently, without making any sound.

“Crack.”

Li Yun'er casually picked a flower from the crabapple branches in the plum vase. The bright red crabapple flower was as bright as fire.

She tore off the petals of the crabapple tree one by one. Some fell on the coffee table, some floated into the teacup, and some fell on the hem of her skirt. A few crushed petals dyed her snow-white fingertips red like blood, so dazzling.

Li Yunyan murmured, "It was already like this, and we all had our own lives... Isn't it better to just let it go?"

Her voice was as soft as a whisper, and when the wind blew, the sound was dissipated, so low that only she could hear it.

"Ouch!" Aunt Li's sharp voice came from outside the house again, disturbing Li Yun'er's thoughts, "My little ancestor, please get up. The ground is cold. If you lie down again, be careful not to catch a cold."

"I won't get up, I won't get up, I won't get up!" Li Hao was still pretending to cry and howl, "Anyway, I want the carriage!"

Father Li was also furious, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Let him lie down! Mother, don't spoil him, his temper is getting worse and worse."

"I want to see how long this brat can stay lying there!"

"Wow, grandma, Daddy bullied me!"

“…”

The Li family members in the yard started arguing again, making Li Yun'er's ears buzz.

A fierce shadow flashed across Li Yun's eyes. She bit her lower lip with her jade teeth, almost biting it until it bled. She sighed softly, "This should have been Gu Yanfei's life."

(End of this chapter)