“Very well, let’s invite her to our manor then! I don’t want to go back there again.” Xie Yutang turned to face Feng Jiu. “What are your thoughts? Is this alright?”

“Whatever you decide is fine with me.” She was just the person she met once and didn’t pay much attention to. If the beautiful woman hadn’t mentioned it today, she would have forgotten that such a person existed.

“Alright, let’s do it this way!” Xie Yutang said, then came up to his mother and took out the gift. “Mother, this is the birthday gift I bought for you.”

“Me, too. Me, too. Mother, I bought you some jewellery!” Xie Shisi said with a smile, handing her the gift.

The beautiful woman smiled with joy when she heard this. “It is not my birthday yet. Why are you in such a hurry to give me the gifts?” She took the gifts and put them away.

“Why don’t you open it and see if you like it, Mother?” Xie Shisi asked because her mother had not opened the gifts.

“Mother likes whatever you give. I’ll open them once I return to my room.” The beautiful woman smiled as she looked at her daughter. “Didn’t you say that it was jewellery? When I get back to my room, I’ll try it in front of the mirror.”

“Then I go back to the room with Mother.” Xie Shisi took her hand.

“I’ll go back first.” Feng Jiu said and then left.

The Xie siblings stayed with the beautiful woman and helped her prepare for her birthday banquet.

Two days later, early in the morning.

The house was buzzing with activity from the moment the sun rose because today was the beautiful woman’s birthday banquet. In the morning, the guests began to arrive one by one. The younger generations of the Xie ancestral home came at Xie Yutang’s invitation.

One could say that most of the people who came today were youngsters. Only a handful of them were Madams who brought their kids.

The beautiful woman simply wanted a lively atmosphere to entertain her children, so she invited everyone she knew. There were a few members of the Xie family present, in addition to one or two madams from outside the manor.

Xie Yutang and Xie Shisi fulfilled their mother’s request by taking care of the guests today, but Feng Jiu had not been seen.

With the arrival of guests came the Ruan family’s Fourth Miss. Xie Yutang was surprised to see the Ruan family’s Third Miss following her. Not only Xie Yutang, but also Xie Shisi, looked unhappy when they saw the Third Miss.

“It’s really you, Big Brother Xie.” Ruan Ruyun’s face lit up with delight when she saw Xie Yutang. She approached him smiling; as if she were familiar with him. “Big Brother Xie, where’s that Brother?” She looked around but was unable to find the azure-clad young man.

Xie Yutang observed her with amazement. The terrifying mark on the girl’s face that had startled him in the bamboo forest had disappeared. Her entire face was as smooth as jade and her exquisite facial features made her look like a completely different person.

The only difference was that the girl in the bamboo forest had felt inferior because of her appearance, whereas today’s Ruan Ruyun radiated vigour and showed no sign of low self-esteem.

Perhaps this was what made him feel so different. After all, he wouldn’t have believed that a person could change so much in just a few days if he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes.

“Please come in! Little Jiu still has not shown up.” Xie Yutang said and then asked his sister to take them in.

“Please come inside and take a seat for a moment!” Xie Shisi said as she led them inside.