Chapter 9 Disheveled and utterly lacking in dignity

“Hurry up and get out of here! Make sure the Fifth Prince doesn’t find out that I’m here too, or you’re as good as dead!”

The Fifth Prince was Bai Li Jin’s beloved—no matter what, she couldn’t let him see her in such a wretched state. If he did, she feared he’d never want to see her again for the rest of his life.

So Bai Li Jin lowered her voice, threatening Bai Li Gui, then silently slid her body, which had almost reached the edge, back into the filthy pond.

“Are you still not getting out?” she snapped when Bai Li Gui hesitated, her anger boiling over.

That wretched girl had pushed her into this cesspit of sewage. She hadn’t even settled the score with her yet, and now the girl dared to ignore her orders?

Bai Li Jin summoned her spiritual energy and, with a forceful toss, threw Bai Li Gui—who was still hesitating—out of the pond.

She had to make Bai Li Gui leave! Otherwise, if the Fifth Prince ordered his men to fish someone out of the sewage, wouldn’t she be dragged out as well?

Bai Li Gui collapsed on the ground, reeking from head to toe, completely unrecognizable—like some filthy loach dredged up from the mire.

She was humiliated!

She was heartbroken!

She was a young woman with a love for beauty, after all. And with the Fifth Prince and so many young noblemen present, she’d made a fool of herself in front of everyone. How could she ever hope to marry well after this?

“Who are you?” the Fifth Prince asked warily, eyeing the girl sprawled on the ground, face down in the mud, covered in filth.

“I… I am…” Bai Li Gui’s mind raced.

She couldn’t help feeling grateful she’d fallen into a sewage pond; now, drenched in slimy black water from head to toe, the Fifth Prince couldn’t see her face.

Naturally, she couldn’t reveal her true identity!

Suddenly, inspiration struck. She changed her tone and replied, “I am Bai Li Tianzhang.”

“Bai Li Tianzhang?” The Fifth Prince was puzzled. He glanced at Bai Li Guishan and asked, “Who is Bai Li Tianzhang? Weren’t all your sisters named with the character Gui?”

“Bai Li Tianzhang is a good-for-nothing who long ago ceased to be part of our General’s Manor,” Bai Li Guishan replied with disdain, looking at the woman sprawled on the ground. “She’s only come back this time to try and freeload off us. Fifth Prince, you don’t need to pay her any attention.”

“Fifth Prince, gentlemen, the environment here is truly unsavory. Let’s go. Let this useless wretch deal with the consequences of her own actions.”

But as Bai Li Guishan cast another glance at the girl lying in the dirt, he couldn’t help but feel she didn’t look like that good-for-nothing. She actually resembled his fifth sister more.

If it truly was his fifth sister, he all the more needed to hurry the Fifth Prince and the young lords away—otherwise, how could his sister ever show her face again?

Still, the sewage pond was always covered tightly with wooden planks. Why was it open today?

Could it be that his fifth sister had deliberately led them here to leave a good impression on the Fifth Prince and the others, but then accidentally slipped and fell in?

Damn it! She actually dared to fling dirty water on him!

Bai Li Tianzhang’s eyes burned with fury as she listened to Bai Li Gui’s words.

“So you’re Bai Li Tianzhang?” Only now did Nalan Dijiu, seeing the agitation in the girl in his arms, suddenly realize the truth.