Chapter 2021: Bitter Fiancée vs. Aristocratic Lady (Part 56)

Chen Mingzhu’s naturally assumed expression faltered for a moment.

She widened her eyes and looked at Gu Shengyin, as if thinking she had just experienced an illusion.

Gu Shengyin leisurely looked at her.

Chen Mingzhu took another look at Gu Shengyin before saying, "I said, my Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion is willing to provide silver..."

Gu Shengyin calmly waited for her to finish speaking again and nodded indifferently under Chen Mingzhu’s gaze: "This county lord has heard, and my answer is: refusal."

Chen Mingzhu looked at Gu Shengyin like this, and for a moment was somewhat at a loss.

In high society, people always speak politely and indirectly, even when declining, they can turn it into something elegant.

And in such situations, Chen Mingzhu is best at playing dumb.

But Gu Shengyin did not give her this opportunity.

This was also the first time Chen Mingzhu had heard someone so bluntly and unceremoniously refuse her.

She faltered for a moment, then foolishly asked, "Why?"

After asking, Chen Mingzhu realized and cursed herself silently for being stupid.

Talking like this, she had unwittingly put herself at a disadvantage.

Gu Shengyin looked at her, her tone somewhat subtle.

"Does this county lord need a reason for being unwilling?" she said gracefully.

Aren’t you, Chen Mingzhu, arrogant?

This county lord is even more so!

Sure enough, Chen Mingzhu was choked for a moment by Gu Shengyin’s attitude of not planning to speak nicely.

Looking at Gu Shengyin’s smiling face, at this moment she desperately wished to pounce and scratch it with sharp nails.

Isn’t she just a country bumpkin who rose to power suddenly, what’s there to be smug about!

She said gloomily, "As the county lord is new to the Capital City, you should not make enemies with people carelessly."

This was a threat.

If Gu Shengyin were really a newly arrived Flower Maiden in the Capital City who rose to power by growing flowers, hearing such words, she might indeed hesitate.

However, she is Gu Shengyin.

She knows very clearly.

Even if there truly are powerful and untouchable prominent families in the Capital City, among them, the Marquis Mingyi’s Chen Family is certainly not included.

It’s merely a house relying on ancestral glory, with not a single promising member in the family, truly nothing to fear from the Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion.

So hearing Chen Mingzhu’s words, Gu Shengyin simply gave a reserved smile, and then lightly said: "This county lord only knows, whoever doesn’t respect me, I’d stomp her face into the ground."

Her casual gaze suddenly turned cold, shooting like a sharp sword onto Chen Mingzhu’s face:

"Miss Chen, who gave you the audacity to boss around this county lord? Let alone that this county lord doesn’t have extra peony seeds, even if I did, what face can your mere Marquis Mingyi’s Mansion have to make this county lord personally cultivate one for you?"

Chen Mingzhu’s face turned ashen: "You!"

Gu Shengyin interrupted her words: "What about this county lord?"

Chen Mingzhu glared at her coldly, Gu Shengyin mercilessly returned the gaze.

In the end, Chen Mingzhu did nothing.

"Surnamed Zhang, you’d better pray you can stay this glorious forever!" Chen Mingzhu gritted her teeth, finally only leaving behind such a harsh sentence, flicking her sleeves and leaving.

Gu Shengyin never paid attention to these threats.

In her view, truly capable people never need to use words that serve no purpose other than bluffing to maintain their facade.

Chen Mingzhu leaving harsh words was only because aside from that, she simply couldn’t do anything else.