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A second rank minister spoke, ”Miss Cheng is truly talented. The young ladies at my learning school do not learn the guqin with such precision.”

”The sound was melodious and brings joy and a bittersweet feeling in one's heart.” A furen praised.

Turning towards the Left Prime Minister, another subordinate followed, ”Left Prime Minister is truly blessed to have such a talented lady as his daughter. Not only is her appearance akin to a fairy, but she is also learned and talented.”

Just as The Left Prime Minister was accepting all the praises with a some on his face, another voice spoke and the atmosphere turned a bit stiff.

The First Prince, Prince Xi proposed, ”One doesn't know what His Majesty think of this performance?”

The words were crude and offensive to an extreme.

First of all, it brought to mind the way His Majesty had been angered because of Miss Cheng all those months ago.

Secondly, by asking if the monarch liked the performance, Prince Xi was comparing Miss Cheng Ru to the courtesans in those brothels who displayed their talents to earn money.

Still, with a mood to watch the unfolding drama, everyone turned their heads to see if the monarch had been bewitched by the beauty or not but they were struck dumb to see that His Majesty seemed to be busy drinking his wine.

This was really what had happened last time as well.

That time he had been lost in his own thoughts and this time he was busy drinking his wine.

Ah!

It seemed Miss Cheng was truly not favoured by luck and she wouldn't be able to enter the palace.

Being ignored twice was the height of being dismissed as unimportant and not worthy by the monarch.

Nobody would dare marry a girl who had been rejected in public in such a manner by imperial power.

Cheng Ru became concerned as she saw the eyes that had been looking at her in envy, jealousy and praise turn into faint mockery and pity.

She had thought that maybe the monarch would pay her attention when she performed this song but from the lacklustre response, she knew she had miscalculated.

As she watched that nobody came forward to extract her out of the awkward situation, her eyes fell upon Zhou Sheng and she focused all her hatred and fear at him.

She collected the tattered remains of her self-esteem and with a shallow smile turned towards Zhou Sheng, ”Does Zhou Daren know the piece just played?”

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If Zhou Sheng replied in the negative, he would be labelled as an illiterate and his future carrier prospects would dwindle down fast and his image in the eyes of His Majesty would also plummet.

If he replied in the positive, she would force him on to the stage and see what he could play or sing so as to not lose his reputation in front of all these novel personages.

If he didn't perform well, it would be seen that he was just a fox trying to exploit the tiger's might.

As everyone was already discontented with the monarch favouring him over them, it wouldn't take much for the various officials to bury Zhou Sheng in criticism and make it difficult for him to get any sort of recognition.

Whichever way he answered, she was rue she could pull him down from his high perch and simultaneously make everyone forget about her actions.