Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Chapter 6: Sisters

How could a person that lived in Shanhe Manor Area be so thin?

Jiang Shuxuan held back the sudden urge to pat her on the head. "Go in first, the sun's quite bright now."

"I'll be going now then." Gu Xiqiao bowed again before waving her hand and walking towards the gates of the manor.

Even though every fiber of her being rejected going back to this place, but she still did. Looking at the two words on the gate, she closed her eyes slowly, not knowing what to think.

Meanwhile, Jiang Shuxuan leaned on the car and watched from a distance.

After she pressed on the doorbell, she continued to stand at the gates in the hot, sweltering sun. It had almost been five minutes and the door had no sign of opening at all. Jiang Shuxuan's gaze darkened as he reached into his car to take out a packet of cigarettes, lighting one up.

May in N City was quite hot and humid, and the afternoon sun was at its highest at two in the afternoon, the heat waves making anyone that dared to stand in their path to feel a blistering pain.

After a while, Jiang Shuxuan threw away his half-smoked cigarette on the ground and stepped on it to snuff it out, before starting to make his way over to the gate with a frosty expression that almost cut through the heat of the sun.

At this moment, the gate finally opened, but he didn't stop his steps. He looked like he was walking slowly, but he appeared at the gates in an instant. He looked up, and two large words were emblazoned in gold.

Gu Residence!

Gu Xiqiao walked from the entrance to the house slowly, and before she arrived at the doorstep she heard laughs and giggles like tinkling bells. She stood there for a while before the devil on her shoulder reminded her that if she went it right now it would definitely destroy the atmosphere in there

Thinking of this, she quickly made her way over to the door and stepped in, and the house was plunged into an abrupt silence.

Perhaps they hadn't expected Gu Xiqiao to appear at this point, and the lively conversation in the living room died down immediately. The smiles of the three people on the sofa slowly disappeared, and the living room was as silent as the grave.

Even the servant could detect the unusual atmosphere in the room, and coldly took out a pair of indoor shoes, throwing them onto the floor with a 'thwack'.

Gu Xiqiao stared at the pair of shoes without saying a word.

The memories in her mind played back like a movie in her mind's eye. The first time she had met her grandfather was at her adoptive mother's grave. The old man was standing in a suit and tie not far from her, and even though his hair was as white as snow, his gaze was quite energetic for his age. He stood there with a bunch of bodyguards in black suits, and said, "I'm your grandfather."

She had thought that she had lost all of her family at that moment, and right then she was taken off guard, and so she agreed to let him bring her to the Gu family.

When she was brought to the Gu family's manor, she was immediately stunned by the extravagant decor. She stood there in her bootleg crocs that were stained with mud, not knowing what to do.

That day, one of the servants threw a pair of new shoes in front of her with a cold, disgusted gaze.

Gu Xiqiao had always been smart, and from the first day she arrived at the Gu family, she could tell that something was wrong with how people treated her and deduced her current situation from the gossip of the servants. Her mother was a mistress that disrupted their relationship and she was an illegitimate daughter, and so she started to hide and lower her presence in the home. Not only did she express multiple times that she would never fight with Gu Xijin for the family property, but she had also helped Gu Xijin multiple times in secret.