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The crowd within the ancestral hall dispersed.
Indeed, today's arrangements were a bit unexpected; some felt sympathy for Li Yunzi, while others took pleasure in her misfortune.
"I actually thought madam would just let Li Yunzi marry some servant to prevent that incident from causing an uproar and losing our family's dignity. Who would have thought she'd end up as someone's concubine? How pitiful," Mu Qing lamented, with hints of sorrow in her voice.
Yet this lamentation was overly false, as her pale pink cheeks were nearly bursting with vivid joy.
Li Yunzi had outshone many of the family's outstanding women, and now she had fallen to such a fate.
"After all, as the concubine of a city lord, if she serves well, she might even live better than us docile ladies."
"She definitely wouldn't be lacking in that regard, after all, she could even arch her back for a lowly beggar…"
"Don't speak so loudly, she's coming this way," Li Kongxi said.
