Wei Yundai felt her thoughts weren’t wrong at all; people, after all, should have dreams, shouldn’t they?

Heaven knows what kind the new emperor will favor?

Thinking of this, she chuckled softly.

Long Yue stood at the railing, silently watching her giggle foolishly, knowing just what she was laughing about—probably making herself out to be a joke?

Ha, who will be a joke remains to be seen!

"Sister, is there something on your mind?"

Long Yue raised an eyebrow lightly and said blandly.

She stood at the corner of the railing, the sunlight shining down and coating her entire being in a layer of golden glow. Already graceful and poised, like a lotus emerging from the water, she appeared even more breathtakingly beautiful.

For some reason, Wei Yundai looked at Long Yue’s enchanting figure and felt extremely upset, wishing she could rush up and carve a long scar across her exquisite, pretty face.

Let this little vixen flaunt herself!

Wei Yundai took a deep breath, suppressing the jealousy in her heart and forcing a smile: "Nothing, just thinking about tomorrow’s hunt. You’ll go too, right?"

"Yes, of course I will. The new emperor will be there in person; everyone wants to glimpse the grandeur of the new emperor, so how could one not go?"

Long Yue spoke slowly, then noticed Wei Yundai’s face turn slightly pale.

Tsk, is this angering her?

Long Yue smirked coldly inside.

"Is sister just going to catch a glimpse?" Wei Yundai stared into Long Yue’s eyes, trying to discern something, but was met only by a gently smiling expression.

"Yes, and to have some fun and relax. You know, sister grew up wild in the mountains and forests, and now being cooped up in this gilded cage, it’s truly boring. This chance comes now, so why not go?"

Wei Yundai paused for a moment, looking at her in disbelief: "Sister is just relaxing?"

"Yes, relaxing!" She said, turning to look at her, "What does sister think she should be doing?"

"I..."

Wei Yundai hesitated, unsure of what to say for a moment.

Certainly, she couldn’t say she thought Long Yue was going to flirt with the new emperor?

She could never say such things.

After pondering for a moment, she said: "Nothing much, just that we are sisters, maybe there were some misunderstandings before. Perhaps this outing is an opportunity to get closer?"

Ha ha, get closer?

Just words spoken to deceive!

Long Yue smiled superficially and said, "Sister speaks wisely, you and I are sisters, we should indeed get closer."

Saying this, Long Yue stepped forward and reached out to hold Wei Yundai’s hand.

Wei Yundai wanted to evade, but couldn’t escape, as Long Yue grabbed her firmly. She didn’t think Long Yue would do anything to her, yet her hand was suddenly twisted in pain!

"Ah!"

She screamed, shaking off Long Yue, glaring with eyes full of fire, "Wei Yunyan, you despicable woman, how dare you pinch me!"

"Miss!"

The maid and follower from behind hadn’t caught on initially, thinking Long Yue was genuinely reaching to shake hands, not expecting such a turn of events?

She rushed forward, protecting Wei Yundai and glared fiercely at Long Yue: "Such audacity, to bully my young lady like this, I’ll report this to Master and Madam soon enough, you’ll pay for this!"

Long Yue looked at this maid coldly, laughing: "Such a disparaging servant; are those words even suitable for someone in your position? Yu Zhu, slap her!"

The maid Yu Zhu froze for a moment.

She honestly hadn’t expected Long Yue would give her such a challenging command? Though the opposing maid was of the same status, after all she served the legitimate daughter, while she was only...

But she saw Long Yue’s cool gaze.

That gaze, the same when she reprimanded them in the courtyard, the kind of look.

Keenly sharp, murderous!

Yu Zhu couldn’t help but muster courage, directly stepping forward and raising her hand to strike down.

"Snap!"

A crisp, melodious sound of a slap resonated, both crisp and loud, drawing the eyes of other nearby maids and servants.

When they saw what happened, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Too wild, too astonishing!

That maid served the legitimate daughter, and what status did Yu Zhu have? Merely a maid of a concubine’s daughter, how could this compare?

Yet she did it!

Once the deed was done, even Yu Zhu was dumbfounded by her actions, quickly retreating to Long Yue’s side, her heart beating wildly as if it might leap out of her mouth.

At this moment, not only Yu Zhu, but Wei Yundai and her maid were also stunned.

Everything happened too suddenly, and they weren’t prepared to handle it.

It took a long while before Wei Yundai snapped out of shock, she shrieked: "Wei Yunyan, you vile woman, you dare, you dare! I, I... I’ll go to find father and mother, let them deal with you, boo hoo hoo..."

Wei Yundai trembled with anger; she was a lady of noble birth, born to the legitimate line, with a high status, always surrounded by admiration, never had experienced such humiliation!

Especially faced with Long Yue’s crude and domineering straightforward approach, she was at a loss on how to retaliate, and the grievance welled up, making tears stream down.

"Miss...she was too much, boo hoo hoo..."

When Wei Yundai cried, her maid cried along with her, thus they sobbed all the way to Old Madam Wei’s place to file a complaint.

"Grandmother, look at my hand! It was Wei Yunyan, she pinched it!"

Wei Yundai held out her wrist for Old Madam Wei to see, who glanced at it and found it perfectly fine, puzzled, she asked: "How did she pinch you?"

"Just pinched it, it hurts my granddaughter so much!"

Wei Yundai said while rubbing her fair wrist, her tears flowing, feeling very aggrieved.

However, she hadn’t noticed that her wrist was perfectly fine, not a hint of bruising or redness.

Old Madam Wei frowned looking at her, feeling this girl was being melodramatic.

After all, there was nothing amiss, yet she claims Yan’er bullied her?

How could Yan’er possibly bully her for no reason?

"Dai’er, have you been causing trouble for Yan’er again?"

Preconceived notions are really critical; Old Madam Wei remained skeptical seeing Wei Yundai with no apparent distress but still crying here; feeling annoyed, she was reciting Buddhist scriptures, so calmly asked.

Wei Yundai looked at Old Madam Wei incredulously: "Grandmother, how could I cause her trouble? It’s she who is completely unreasonable; look at how my maid Bi Yu was beaten?"

Bi Yu stepped forward to the old madam, showing indeed a red slap mark clearly visible on her cheek.

Old Madam Wei frowned: "Yan’er hit you?"

"No, she instructed her maid Yu Zhu to do it!"

Old Madam Wei felt Long Yue wasn’t one to be imprudent, so asked: "Why did she have Yu Zhu hit you?"

"Because she pinched Miss, and I reprimanded her a bit..."

Bi Yu’s voice suddenly grew small at that point.

Because, although as a servant, reprimanding a master was indeed improper, even being hit, it was deserved!

Indeed, Old Madam Wei said: "Dai’er, your ability to manage servants is increasingly lacking!"

"Grandmother!"

Wei Yundai was unbearably aggrieved, initially intending to complain and tarnish Long Yue’s reputation, but instead ended up at a disadvantage herself.

Boo hoo hoo, why am I so unlucky?