“Madame… Madame Mu, no, Master, my daughter didn’t mean to offend you. Please be kind and forgive my insensible daughter. She knows she’s wrong, right, Niannian? Hurry, tell Master you know you’re sorry.”

Dong Meilan finally collected herself from the shock and immediately went up to Lu Zijia with a smile and asked her daughter to apologize.

Even though the Gu family had the support from the Ancient Martial Arts Gu family, the Ancient Martial Arts Gu family would definitely not care about them if they offended someone they shouldn’t.

They might even be replaced by branches of the Gu family in other cities.

Martial Artists and Taoist Masters were of the same status, but because Taoist Masters had too many means, it was impossible for people to guard against them. Therefore, Martial Artists generally wouldn’t provoke Taoist Masters.

Every generation of the Gu family knew this clearly.

But now, they provoked one.

At this moment, both Gu Cheng and Dong Meilan regretted so much that their intestines turned green.

When their daughter started to pretend to be a Taoist Master, they should have stopped her, or they wouldn’t have caused such a huge disaster today!

“Slap! Slap!”

As her father, Gu Cheng directly went forward and slapped Gu Nian fiercely twice. “Bastard, we asked you to apologize. Didn’t you hear us?”

Gu Cheng, who could be the head of the Gu family in the capital city, certainly had powerful means. He was soft when he should and even ruthless when he should be.

Even if she was his own daughter, he would not show any mercy!

“Father?!”

After being slapped twice in front of everyone by her father, who always doted on her, Gu Nian touched her burning face in a daze with disbelief in her eyes.

Seeing her daughter being beaten, Dong Meilan’s heart immediately twitched, but she didn’t say anything in the end.

The most important thing right now was to get through this first. She could only let her daughter suffer a little.

She only hoped that Lu Zijia could just let it go after venting her anger for the sake of all the Ancient Martial Arts families behind the Gu family and the Mu family.

“Slap! Slap!”

Seeing that his daughter was still standing there, Gu Cheng’s old face turned pale and he immediately raised his hand to give her two more slaps.

How did he get such an idiot daughter who always caused trouble for him?

“Apologize to the master quickly!”

Gu Cheng almost shouted in a low voice. He stared at Gu Nian like he was looking at his enemy, not his daughter.

Lu Zijia didn’t say anything either. She just watched the family of three play the good cop and bad cop.

Of course, it would be fun if the father and daughter really became enemies.

“I… I…”

Gu Nian had been pampered since she was little. During the two years she was pretending to be a Taoist Master, people even treated her respectfully. When had she ever suffered such grievances?

Besides, the person who slapped her in front of everyone right now was her own father. This was totally unacceptable!

“Slap! Slap! If you don’t apologize to the master today, I’ll beat you to death!”

Gu Cheng slapped his daughter twice again without showing any mercy and said ruthlessly and mercilessly.

At this moment, the two sides of Gu Nian’s cheeks were flushed from the beating and she looked a bit messy, losing the demeanor of a master that she had before.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, alright?”

Seeing her father raise his hand again, Gu Nian immediately shouted with a slight breakdown.

The strong embarrassment in her mind made her forget her fear towards Taoist Masters temporarily. She looked at Lu Zijia with resentment in her eyes.

From her perspective, if it weren’t for Lu Zijia’s sudden appearance, her reputation and image, which she spent so much effort to manage, wouldn’t have been ruined in an instant, and she wouldn’t be in such a miserable and embarrassed situation right now!