Qu Jiao was extremely annoyed.
She quickly wiped the tea off her face with her handkerchief.
But as she wiped, she felt something was wrong.
"You!"
"Qu Jiao Jiao, you're so ugly I can't eat dinner," Yun Shu said expressionlessly, but with disdain in her tone.
Qu Jiao Jiao's eyes widened, and she finally realized something was amiss. "You! You!"
Li Yue'e rushed to Yun Shu's side.
She met Yun Shu's eyes directly.
In those beautiful eyes, there was none of the gaze they used to see. Before, with just a glance from Yun Shu, they could tell what she was thinking.
Now, they saw distance, coldness.
And unfathomable depth.
Li Yue'e was about to speak, but swallowed her words.
She quickly looked at Wang Mei Yuan.
Wang Mei Yuan's face held a hint of malice.
"You're not silly anymore!" Wang Mei Yuan gritted her teeth.
After disappearing for five years, she returned and was no longer foolish!
No wonder Yun Shu seemed not to hear whatever they said earlier, not flustered at all!
So she wasn't silly, and had been coldly observing their nonsensical chatter.
A sense of being played washed over them.
"Yun Shu, you did it on purpose!"
Yun Shu looked at Wang Mei Yuan, who was the first to react.
Among these people, Wang Mei Yuan was the smartest.
In the past, when Yun Yue Yin was around, they all listened to Yun Yue Yin.
Otherwise, with their original host's father being a great general, how would they dare bully the original host?
And daring to come while Yun Chang Feng was still in the mansion showed they believed she was still foolish.
At the same time, they believed that with Yun Yue Yin backing them, they had nothing to fear.
"Mhm, I did it on purpose," Yun Shu admitted with a smile.
The four of them were stunned.
Then.
Wang Mei Yuan angrily said, "Yun Shu, you've gone too far! If you're not silly anymore, why didn't you tell us?"
Worse still, she watched them treat her as before.
Recalling what they had just said, it might fool a fool, but it certainly wouldn't fool a normal person.
Instead, they were made to look like fools!
"Yes, you didn't say you were better!" Li Yue'e exclaimed angrily.
Wang Mei Yuan gave them a look, signaling them to stay quiet for now.
Then, Wang Mei Yuan narrowed her eyes coldly, "Yun Shu, were you deliberately pretending to be foolish before?"
As far as they knew, Yun Shu had been foolish since childhood. It was impossible for her to disappear for five years and suddenly become intelligent upon her return.
Therefore, it was possible she had been faking her foolishness all along.
But they had done many things to Yun Shu over the years. If Yun Shu wasn't truly foolish, she wouldn't have willingly let them bully her in various ways, would she?
"Pretending to be foolish?" Yun Shu raised an eyebrow.
She wished the original host had been pretending.
"Or perhaps you met a divine doctor, and a divine doctor saved you! However, Yun Shu, even if you're not silly now, and you know how we treated you before, what does it matter?" Wang Mei Yuan decided to drop all pretense and confronted her directly.
Yun Shu curved her lips, her smile radiant, "Wang Mei Yuan, I'll give you a chance. Kneel down now, kowtow a few times, and call me 'Grand Aunt' a few times, and I, in my great generosity, will forgive you this once, how about it?"
"Dream on!" Except for Wang Mei Yuan, the other three refused almost in unison.
Wang Mei Yuan glanced towards the entrance, seeing no one, and her tone became somewhat arrogant, "How come I don't remember us doing anything to you before?"
"I don't remember either!"
"I only remember that in the capital, because you were too foolish, no one made friends with you. We didn't dislike you, you should be grateful to us!"