Yet, she was merely a spectator of a spectacle, like watching a panda, ahem.
Mother and son followed him into the grand banquet.
Ye Lu was relieved that she was wearing a winter dress under her coat, for showing up at such a banquet in trousers would have been terribly unseemly.
"Hmph, that nasty woman said we are not qualified to enter such a banquet. I can't wait to see her face when we show up." Ye Yuan grumped, still holding a grudge over the humiliation that woman subjected his mother to earlier.
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"Sijia, why aren't you accompanying Third Young Master? Shouldn't he introduce you to those foreign nobles?" Several well-heeled ladies circled around Bai Sijia.
Seeing Third Young Master Jun gracefully engaging in lively conversations with foreign diplomats, demonstrating both ease and arrogance, not being overshadowed and instead standing out even more for his extraordinary nobility, and his dominating presence exuding a regal bearing, they were all taken aback by his charm.
