Li Yuyan stared at the first seat on her right, a seat that originally belonged to Pei Yanzhi.
It's currently vacant.
If only he were here...
Thinking about it, Li Yuyan's gaze softened, and her eyes revealed the coquettishness of a young girl.
Like a young girl experiencing first love, her cheeks flushed red, her face blushing.
The next second, anger replaced it.
However, after returning to the Southern Border and staying for a while longer, I never expected that Pei Yanzhi would be married upon his return...
He married a lowly, ordinary woman.
Even with outstanding looks, one is nothing more than an empty shell.
And that Liu Yunyan...
"Whoosh—"
With a murmur, Li Yuyan's gaze fell on Liu Yunyan's pure and innocent face.
Little bitch.
I'll deal with you later.
At this moment, Yao Zhijie was not as smug as Jiang Shuwan had imagined.
The louder the people around him shouted, the more his conscience ached.
He was well-versed in literature from a young age and had lofty ambitions.
The person I admire most is Pei Yanzhi.
As for women, Jiang Shuwan was the first woman he admired, and perhaps the last.
But now, he is going to destroy her with his own hands.
I'm so despicable...
With a bitter smile, Yao Zhijie lowered his head deeply. He dared not look at Jiang Shuwan, nor dared to hear the voices of others criticizing her.
He lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and looked ashamed and ashamed.
It seems that Yao Zhijie doesn't hate her that much.
For some reason she didn't know, she deliberately teamed up with Li Yuyan to frame her.
As Jiang Shuwan's gaze swept across Yao Zhijie's face, it also swept over Liu Yunyan, whose face was already beaming with undisguised joy.
After being publicly driven out by the princess, Jiang Shuwan lost all face and will probably never dare to go out and socialize again.
Not only will it be difficult to settle the matter of her marriage, but she might also have to help Jiang Shuwan with social interactions, just like the legal wife.
We also have to thank Li Yuyan.
She had tried applying eye drops to the old lady several times before, but it didn't work.
Li Yuyan truly lived up to her royal status; she dealt a fatal blow with a single move.
That was ruthless and precise, amazing!
Liu Yunyan was overjoyed, but seeing Jiang Shuwan looking over, she quickly composed herself and spoke hesitantly and softly.
"How can you say that? Even if you can't read books or poetry, you can't drive people away! If word gets out, how will we face everyone..."
Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz, full of affected, sycophantic talk, and she successfully provoked the anger of others.
"What does her conduct have to do with us?"
"Exactly, are we supposed to consider her feelings too?"
Yao Jinshu was genuinely anxious.
"Princess, please calm down. You only asked us to compose poems to have some fun. If things get out like this, it won't sound good. With the end of the year approaching, there's really no need for this!"
"No, how about we make her drink three cups of wine as a punishment?"
Yao Jinshu said nervously that this was a method she had racked her brains to come up with.
Moreover, she frequently glanced at Yao Zhijie in the opposite male section, frantically giving him meaningful looks.
On the day Jiang Shuwan first entered the social circle and interacted with the wives of officials, Yao Zhijie said that Jiang Shuwan was a good person and that it was good to befriend her, and that he could help her if necessary.
Why is my brother so silent now that things have come to this?
Yao Jinshu was extremely anxious.
Witnessing this scene, Jiang Shuwan smiled and raised an eyebrow with amusement.
interesting.
This brother and sister, one helped her, the other harmed her.
The Yao family is really hard to understand!
With a sigh, Jiang Shuwan stepped out of her seat.
She had been navigating the social circles of the wealthy women in Beijing for about half a year, and with the year-end approaching, she had attended twenty or thirty banquets of all sizes.
In summary, it was a form of diplomacy involving the wife.
Besides eating and drinking, it's all about comparing what you eat and wear, forming cliques, and going a little deeper, helping the men in the family with things that are difficult or inconvenient for them to do.
Thus, the husband and wife followed each other's lead.
As the wife of the heir of a marquis's family, she should fulfill her duties and make a good impression in this circle.
But everyone else has changed the plum blossom appreciation banquet into a poetry writing banquet. She can neither write poetry nor has good handwriting, so why should she shamelessly insist on staying?
A loss is a loss.
Regardless of whether others used underhanded tactics, those who should leave should leave.
Smoothing her skirt, Jiang Shuwan patted her bottom and decided to leave.
"..."
As Jiang Shuwan slunk away amidst the jeers of the crowd (Jiang Shuwan: I didn't slunk away, I just accepted my loss), Jiang Yao, who had remained silent and not joined in the jeers, suddenly stood up.
"To kick someone out just because they can't compose poetry or write calligraphy? That's too domineering of the princess!"
"..."
The entire room fell silent.
Li Yuyan and Liu Yunyan were both stunned, and Jiang Shuwan stopped in her tracks.
The room full of forty-odd people stared in astonishment at Jiang Yao for speaking disrespectfully to Li Yuyan.
Is she helping her older sister?
"Has she gone mad? How dare she speak disrespectfully to the princess?"
Facing the incredulous gazes of the crowd, Jiang Yao straightened her back and bowed to Li Yuyan with both hands.
She was impeccably polite, but the words she uttered instantly turned Li Yuyan's face ashen.
"May I ask, Princess, did you previously mention that the plum blossom appreciation banquet would be a poetry composing banquet?"
"..."
Li Yuyan was naturally unable to answer.
"If you don't have one, then why are you kicking my older sister out?"
As soon as Jiang Yao said this, the others realized what she meant, especially those men and women who simply thought Jiang Shuwan was ignorant and uneducated.
"That's right. Since we didn't agree to write calligraphy or compose poems beforehand, it was just a casual get-together, so why should we kick her out?"
"So what if she can't? What's it to us?"
"It's not like we hosted a poetry banquet and she sneaked in to disrupt it."
"Since it wasn't agreed upon beforehand, there's naturally no reason to kick her out."
"It's all the fault of those guys who were so righteous and told people to get lost; they led us astray too."
"Luckily she hasn't left yet, otherwise we would be the laughing stock of the world."
Hearing these discussions, Li Yuyan and the others who had spoken so righteously all changed their expressions.
Those noble ladies and scions of prominent families whose interests were harmed by the commercial tax also looked displeased.
But what Jiang Yao said made so much sense that they couldn't refute it.
Just then, a noblewoman who was positioned even further forward than Jiang Shuwan stood up.
She clearly held a high status; everyone looked at her as soon as she arrived.
She squinted her fox-like eyes and glanced at the Jiang Shuwan and Jiang Yao sisters.
"My sister-in-law has a silver tongue; she can make the dead seem alive."
“Indeed, the princess did not specify beforehand that this banquet was only for those who could compose poetry and write calligraphy, but that does not mean we cannot ask the Crown Prince’s wife to leave the table.”
"After all, we are also thinking of the Crown Prince's wife."
"Forcing yourself to integrate when you're not part of the same circle is also a painful experience."
"Don't you agree, Lady Crown Prince?"
"..."
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