Chapter 84 Ren Jiapei (1/2)
“They… have all become so heartless?”
The young lady was pale-faced and desolate.
She never imagined that the daughters of the other grand families who had previously been as close as sisters to her would turn their backs on her in her time of need after being expelled from the Yang family.
Not just that, each one of them was trying to push her into the pit.
In the past, she had shared with them more than once that she would rather die than marry that Young Master Shi Yu of the Shi family…
Now, were they really trying to force her to her death?
“Zixi, we had better find an inn to stay for now.”
Zhou Donghuang sighed. He did not know how to console the young lady given her situation because this was reality.
No one ever objected to making a good situation even better. However, no one would ever be willing to give help when it was most needed.
“No… I cannot believe it, I cannot believe it…”
The young lady shook her head with an indignant expression and proceeded to bring Zhou Donghuang to the family mansions of two more grand families, with similar results. They were turned away at the door.
“Young Mistress, listen to Medicine Master Zhou, let’s find an inn for the night.”
Aunt Mei sighed. “Right now, you have already looked up everyone who could have helped.”
“No… there’s still one more.”
There was a look of stubbornness on the young lady’s face.
“Still one more? Who?”
Aunt Mei was momentarily stunned. She knew all her young mistresses’ friends, and she could not recall anyone else besides those whom her young mistress had already sought out.
“Ren Jiapei!” the young lady said solemnly.
“Ren Jiapei? The daughter of the grand Ren family?”
Aunt Mei smiled bitterly. “Young Mistress, you and Young Mistress Ren don’t seem to have interacted much with each other? The only interaction you had with her was ten years ago, when she was almost knocked down by the carriage of the tycoon Kong family, and you pulled her aside just in time and saved her life.”
“Although she owes you her life, how old was she at that time? She might not even remember.”
Aunt Mei shook her head. “That year, the patriarch of the Ren family brought her to the Yang family mansion to thank the patriarch of the Yang family, and after presenting a lavish gift, you and she had no more interactions with each other thereafter.”
The Chu royal city was not huge, but neither was it small.
Yang Zixi and Ren Jiapei had not interacted with each other since that year because Ren Jiapei had followed her mother when she left the Ren family and left the Chu royal city. They had been away for ten whole years, and they had just returned a month ago.
Hearing Aunt Mei relate this story, Zhou Donghuang could not help shaking his head to himself. He did not believe that this young mistress of the Ren family would take the young lady in at this point in time.
“Big Brother Zhou, just one more… this is the last person I’ll look up. If even she does not agree to take me in, I’ll go with you to find an inn,” the young lady said to Zhou Donghuang.
“Let’s go.”
Zhou Donghuang nodded.
On the way to the Ren family, Zhou Donghuang found out from Aunt Mei that although the Ren family was also a grand family, they were much stronger than the Yang family.
The Yang family had only one level-six adept of Qi-gathering, while the Ren family had three. For this reason, the Ren family’s position in the Chu royal city was much higher than the Yang family’s.
Of course, they could still not compare to the Shi family, which was a tycoon family.
Soon, the small group arrived at the main entrance of the Ren family mansion.
“I… I am Yang Zixi, looking… looking for Young Mistress Ren Jiapei.”
The young lady was not holding on to too much hope after the repeated setbacks, and she spoke to the two Ren family juniors without much confidence.
“Yang Zixi?”
One of the Ren family juniors gave a start and asked with a serious expression, “Young Mistress Zixi of the grand Yang family?”
“In the past… however, I have now been expelled from the Yang family.”
Yang Zixi shook her head with a self-deprecating smile.
What the Ren family juniors said next surprised everyone, including Zhou Donghuang. “Young Mistress Zixi, our young mistress instructed us yesterday that if you came looking for her, we should bring you to the receiving chamber immediately and notify her to go over.”
“Young Mistress Zixi, this way please.”
As they spoke, the Ren family juniors ushered the group of four into the Ren family mansion and led them to the receiving chamber.
“Young Mistress Zixi, please wait here for now. I’ll proceed to notify our young mistress.
After greeting the young lady, the Ren family junior jogged away from the receiving chamber.
“I never imagined, really never imagined…”
Aunt Mei looked at the young lady in disbelief, sighing and shaking her head. “Young Mistress Ren has not seen you for over ten years now… I never imagined that just when Young Mistress is in need, she would be more reliable than those young mistresses of the other grand families who you are usually close to and treat like sisters. I never imagined, never imagined, really did not imagine.”
Aunt Mei could still not believe it.