Chapter 1261: Dispute Outside the Quiet Hall

It seemed that it was indeed true.

Xia Yingluo looked at him. “Ms. Gu, I really admire your ability to make meaning from cut segments. It’s such a pity you don’t become a paparazzi.”

Jin Ling’er almost sn.i.g.g.e.red and laughed out loud. Wasn’t it? Yingluo had done those things because she had reasons to. But under Gu Jinxiu’s vivid description, it seemed as if it was very shameful. It was such a shame she had such a talent and wasn’t a paparazzi.

Gu Jinxiu’s expression turned bad at their sarcasm. She suppressed her anger and said lightly, “Am I wrong? You did all those and yet you’re afraid of other people talking about it. I don’t want to quarrel with you, this isn’t a place you should come. Go and don’t disrupt the peace of the elders in the hall.”

Xia Yingluo was here to find the elders, how could she go?

Still playing with the orchid in her hands, she glanced at Gu Jinxiu. “I think you should go, Ms. Gu. To my knowledge, the Gu family isn’t on very good terms with the Li family nowadays. I really don’t understand how a member of the Gu family could come so shamelessly to a banquet to welcome the Li family.” The Gu family had once been on good terms with the Li family and Old Master Gu had been like the grandfather of Li Lei, but twenty years ago, things had happened with Gu Lin—Gu Lin had used all sorts of methods to drag Xia Ling down and had been put behind bars in the end. The two families had since then become enemies and grown apart.

Xia Yingluo really couldn’t understand how Gu Jinxiu still had the face to come here?

Gu Jinxiu didn’t expect Xia Yingluo to know so many things. She secretly resented Li Rui for telling things to this casual woman. The enmity between prestigious families should stay between them. This Second Young Master Li was placing too much importance on this casual woman!

The Gu family’s relations.h.i.+p with the Li family had indeed been very bad recently, but they had also underestimated the Li family’s influence on their family—after leaving the support of the Li family, the Gu family’s business had only deteriorated steadily. Compared to when Old Master Gu was still alive, the situation now was extremely miserable. Even Gu Jinxiu only looked to be bright and neat on the surface, but in reality, she was already unable to make ends meet and was only using the family’s previous patrimony to put up a front.

She wasn’t willing to let other people see her in dire straits.

Last week, when the highly skilled designer Master Eric had released a new limited edition bag, a few n.o.ble ladies had urged her to buy it. So, although it hurt her painfully, she had pretended to agree. After that, she glossed over not having it with the excuse of “being unable to get it because it’s a limited edition”. Such an expensive bag was already unsuitable for the ladies of the Gu family. She would rather save the money and spend it on her family business. Otherwise, after a few more years, people might find out about their family’s downfall.

Her father and brothers were incapable and couldn’t manage the family business, so it was only up to her now.

She wanted to repair the family’s relations.h.i.+p with the Li family. If she could redeem the friends.h.i.+p with the Li family, why would the Gu family still have to worry about returning to glory?

She really didn’t know what her father and grandpa were thinking back then. Just for her aunt Gu Lin, such a brainless girl, they had destroyed their relations.h.i.+p with the Li family. Which finger of Gu Lin, that stupid wretch, was worthy of the family paying such a hefty price? She was ruining the lives of the other family members!

While Gu Jinxiu was cursing her aunt in her heart to rot in jail forever, she also put on a sincere front and found the Du family to beg them to give her another chance. She wanted to take this banquet as an opportunity to repair the relations.h.i.+p with the Li family. Actually, for this kind of matter, it was more suitable for her father or grandpa to come, but they both detested Li Lei to the core because of her aunt, so how could they possibly bow down and come here?

Gu Jinxiu didn’t want to innocently follow her family into deterioration, so she had no choice but to come here herself.

The Du family had originally been on good relations.h.i.+ps with the Li and Gu families. They didn’t want the two families to quarrel like this, and they pitied Gu Jinxiu, so they took compa.s.sion and agreed to her pleas. They invited her to the banquet for her to use the chance to repair her relations with the Li family.

Other people came to the banquet for fun, but she was here on a mission instead.

Originally, she had wanted to follow Li Lei and the others into the hall to greet Old Mister Shan Kouya, but she had been stopped by the attendant instead. “Apologies, Ms. Gu, Old Master Shankou only sees friends. This is a private little gathering, I’m afraid it won’t be too convenient for you to enter.”

Gu Jinxiu could only stop.

She had been outside on the gra.s.s patch, chatting absent-mindedly with a few of the n.o.ble ladies while waiting for the late Ms. Jennifer—Ms. Jennifer was the pearl in Li Lei’s palm. If she could build a good relations.h.i.+p with the lady, the redemption of the two family’s relations would have hope. However, even after waiting for half a day, Ms. Jennifer had yet to arrive and only Xia Yingluo was here.

Gu Jinxiu couldn’t bear to see Li Rui bringing such shady girls to the scene of the banquet, and the other ladies also felt the same way. If she could cause a dispute outside the quiet hall and chase away these two shady girls, then it would be considered becoming “battle friends” with the group of n.o.ble ladies. It would be even better if she could lure the elders out. She could then use the chance to talk to them and perhaps take the opportunity to get closer to Li Lei and his wife.

Gu Jinxiu had been counting her chickens before they hatched, but who knew that Xia Yingluo would checkmate her the moment she opened her mouth—the Li family doesn’t like you, why are you here?

Her words exposed all of Gu Jinxiu’s arrogance and pretense.

Gu Jinxiu was embarra.s.sed and her face turned a shade of white. She said, “The matters between our two families have nothing to do with you.”

Jin Ying also said, “Exactly. Don’t overestimate yourself just because Brother Li Rui pampers you. Let me tell you, Brother Li Rui changes his girls faster than he does his clothes. You two, tsk, maybe he’ll dump you two tomorrow.”

Xia Yingluo squinted at her. “Who are you?”

“Jin Ying.” The girl stuck out her chest arrogantly. “I’m from the Jin family, but you wouldn’t understand. You just have to know that Jin Yifei is my uncle. You two are still trainees, right? Next time when you debut, I’ll ask my uncle to shut you two out. Ha, then we’ll see how you cry.”

Xia Yingluo looked at her like an idiot. What, did the Jin family really give birth to such an idiot? Regarding Uncle Jin Yifei… she had a little impression of him. He had carried her a few times when she was young and had brought her to the filming set to see dynamites being exploded. She had returned with her head and face filthy with grime, and he had told her tentatively not to tell her father. She had already thought that this uncle Jin Yifei was unreliable, but who knew his niece was even worse?

She thought she could shut out a big lady from the entertainment industry’s biggest company just by using a director?

She, she was utterly speechless.

Jin Ying saw that she wasn’t speaking and thought she was afraid. She said proudly, “If you know my might, roll and get lost quickly. Don’t make us chase you out.”

Xia Yingluo really didn’t want to continue quarreling with them. However, she shouldn’t be the one to get lost, should she? She had just stolen Grandpa Shankou’s orchid and had been happily waiting to be discovered, but what was going on now? “You guys should get lost.” She waved the orchid in her hands. The expensive and exquisite orchid swayed like a dog’s tail in the wind. “Let us see what is ‘roll’.”