âPfff.â Hualuoâs laughter was both mocking and sarcastic: âBai Zheng Xiang, are you really stupid or just acting? If my mistress didnât order me to do something, would I do it?â
âMi⦠Miss Hualuo, I justâ¦â
Bai Zheng Xiang had wanted to explain himself when he suddenly realized something important. Widening his eyes, horror and shock instantly irrigated his expression.
âMi⦠Miss Hualuoâ¦what did you call her?â
In reality, he shouldâve been able to guess Bai Yanâs identity as soon as Left Guardian addressed her as âMistressâ.
Yet at the time he only had the thought of getting close to the Flower Brothel, hence the reason why he would make this low-level of an error.
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âBai Zheng Xiang, you should be thankful for your luck; otherwise, you would already be dead right now.â
Before her mistress had wanted to find out the cause of Lanyueâs death, hence the reason why theyâve been investigating the case from all sorts of angles. But with the death of the old birth nanny, the only trail left was through the Bai House. If not for this reason, those people would be destroyed by now!
Of course, Bai Zheng Xiang may have survived until now by relying on his luck, but after todayâs incident, even if heâs escaped death, itâs a definite he wonât be whole after this encounter.
Disregarding the shock and attention from everyone, Hualuo went ahead and came before Bai Yan. With one knee lowered to the ground, she respectfully said, âMistress, Iâve come late, please punish me.â
Donning a red glimmering dress, Bai Yan was like a masterpiece in her beauty with that swaying black hair. As her smirking smile pierced through the crowd and lands on the man responsible for all this, her eyes instantly turned sharp, frightening even the unrelated onlookers nearby.
If a passerby can be scared to such a degree, thereâs no way Bai Zheng Xiang will be fine. In his falter, he staggers backward and nearly fell to the ground. Luckily there was a tree there, which helped him keep his balance.
Even so, his heart was in so much pain right now. Not over the fact that heâs harmed his own flesh and blood, nay! Itâs over his own wasted effort during this period.
Why did he wait all those days outside the old manor? Of course itâs in order to get close to Hualuo.
But now of all times, someone tells him the daughter in which he discarded was the true owner of the Flower Brothel!
Was this ironic or what?
Bai Zheng Xiang regrets it now, he really does. If only he knew Bai Yan had such a status, he wouldâve done everything to treat her well when she first retuned!
âHow can this beâ¦â¦â Disbelief filled Nangong Yiâs ashen face. As he clenched his fist, a deep scarring pain covered those eyes.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Just now when he heard Bai Yan was a prostitute at the Flower Brothel, he was honestly glad that was the case. Glad over the fact that he chose right back then, and glad that Di Cang took a woman thatâs been ridden by all sorts of men out there!
But now⦠the Head of the Flower Brothel herself had claimed that Bai Yan was her mistress!
Thatâs the Flower Brothel dammit, an organization equivalent to the royal family! Why did Bai Yan have to be the owner?!
Based on what can she do that?
Compared with the regret gripping Bai Zheng Xiang and the unwillingness hanging around Nangong Yi, more were looking on with contempt after their initial shock. However, the contempt firing out from these people werenât aimed at Bai Yan, itâs at those whoâs going against the girl.
âSo the Bai family didnât even get her status right when they claimed sheâs a prostitute. Che, talk about being disgusting. How can they even claim to be her family when they are so willing to stigmatize her?!â
âItâs no wonder Bai Yan and her brother are so rebellious. With such people as their family, even I wouldnât want them.â
Before these people were still accusing Bai Xiao of being unfilial, but after witnessing how shameless and cruel the Bai family was in reality, it made sense to them now.
âWith such relatives, who wouldnât be rebellious? What, are they supposed to be good and obedient instead?â
âSeriously, I canât believe they can have the heart to do such cruel things to their own blood. If it were me, I can never do that to my own child.â
Hearing the undisguised discussions hovering around himself, Bai Zheng Xiangâs face was twitching profusely. There were many times where he wanted to speak out to defend himself, but against that indifferent expression on his daughterâs face, the man here didnât have the courage to say itâ¦.