Noticing that Gu Qingcheng's face had tensed up, Feng Yiyi felt gratified. She continued glibly, "Gu Qingcheng, during those three years that you were in the UK, did you feel very upset whenever you thought about the time when Shi had slept with you and then dumped you?"
In the few days that she'd been back in the country, more than one person had reminded Gu Qingcheng about the time when she had slept with Tang Shi and then gotten dumped afterward.
Tang Shi, full of mockery, had said, "Gu Qingcheng, I slept with you and then dumped you. Yet, here you are again, like a moron, offering yourself to me. Just how thick-skinned are you?"
Siyue had said, "Qingqing, do you realize that, to my bro, you are something that he has discarded. Since my bro no longer wants you, why would you even care about how he feels?"
And now, Feng Yiyi had said something very similar.
Gu Qingcheng didn't dare nor want to upset Tang Shi. Siyue had said those things as advice for her own good, so she hadn't felt too upset by it.
But Feng Yiyi was different. She had said those things to mock her, to make her into a laughingstock, and to hurt and humiliate her.
In Gu Qingcheng's mind, there was only one person in the world who she needed to tolerate, give way to, and earn brownie points from. And that was Tang Shi.
She had known, from a very young age, that she shouldn't put up with grief from anyone except Tang Shi.
However, she also knew that she was much better than Feng Yiyi, because ever since she had been a young girl, her family had brought her up to be the next first lady of the Tang family. The Gu family had groomed her to always keep her emotions in check, to always maintain a composed demeanor, and to exemplify elegance and grace at all times. So now, even though she was raging with fury inside, she had to appear calm and unruffled and speak in a gentle, even tone. "Thank you for your concern. Compared with what you, being burdened with the title of the illegitimate daughter, have been trying your utmost to do to curry favor with the Feng family, my three years in the UK were a lot more bearable."
Gu Qingcheng had used Feng Yiyi's tactics back against her.
Since Feng Yiyi had hit her where it hurt the most, Gu Qingcheng had done the same to Feng Yiyi, hitting her at her most vulnerable point and adding salt to Feng Yiyi's wounds.
Feng Yiyi's face was instantly transformed. She turned a deathly white. Glaring at Gu Qingcheng, she just sputtered and couldn't respond any further.
It was a fact, as Gu Qingcheng had just said, that she had been born out of wedlock and had never been looked upon favorably by the Feng family. So she had had to be deferential at all times in order to stay in their good books.
Recalling what Feng Yiyi had said with sarcasm earlier, Gu Qingcheng smiled even more elegantly. Leaning slightly forward, in a voice that could only be heard by the two of them, she said to Feng Yiyi, "Earlier, you said that I was eagerly pushing Cheng Xieyi for news about CEO Tang? But have you thought about how, if I were really being ostracized by CEO Tang, I would be working in CEO Tang's secretarial department? Surely you must know that all of his secretaries and assistants have to be handpicked by him?"