Abandoned Young Miss Gu (Arch-enemies transmigrated into a novel)

"It's fine grandmother. I've so many servants around me and Yang Xumei and others always try to make a little mischief to make my day. It's not as bad as you think grandmother." Gu Yanyan said with caution as if she was afraid of making others worry about her.

Seeing her so timid and cautious expressions, old Madam Gu couldn't help but purse her lips and looked at Madam Yun and her daughter.

Feeling the dissatisfaction in old Madam Gu's gaze towards her, Madam Yun secretly gritted her teeth and thought to herself, 'This b*tch surely knows how to play her cards. Even without saying or doing anything directly, she had already made old Madam dissatisfied with her.'

But she could only thought this inside her heart while outside she was still putting and act of a kind and loving mother.

"Ah! This child! You alone in your courtyard while your other siblings are mingling and playing with each other, exchanging knowledge and learning new skills among them. Even though you won't say it out loud, as your mother I can feel how you would be feeling, seeing your other siblings talking and laughing among them while not even inviting you for once." As Madam Yun said this, she didn't looked like she was telling how other young misses in the Residence had excluded and isolated this just returned eldest young miss, instead it more looked like as if Madam Yun was counting her own grievances in front of old Madam Gu.

As if she was just sort of saying; look how tough it is to become a step mother whose step child has been ignored by other children in the Residence.

She put her silk handkerchief at the corner of her left eye and wiped away her non-existent tears very skillfully.

Added with her red rimmed eyes and red tinted nose made her act even more promising.

Gu Yanyan took another sip of her hot plum tea as she watched Madam Yun putting her act in front of old Madam Gu.

Just as Madam Yun finished wiping her face, Gu Yanyan choked on her tea with a loud sob and put her tea cup aside, her cheeks stricken with two stream of tears and her eyes were even redder than Madam Yun as she hurriedly 'tried' to wipe away her 'real' tears in front of Madam Yun.

"It's OK mother. I don't feel excluded or isolated at all. As long as my younger siblings are happy and enjoying among themselves, I don't want to disturb them unnecessarily. Anyway, I've been away from home for nearly a decade and most of them are borned after my departure, it's normal for them to not feel close to me. It's OK. I'm fine." Gu Yanyan again and again tried to 'force' a smile on her face to show how 'fine' she was.

Seeing her tears stricken cheeks, Madam Yun was flabbergasted for a while, she didn't know what happened just now.

She just wanted to mock Gu Yanyan for being excluded and isolated by her younger siblings, how come she was at the losing end now.

Seeing her eldest grand daughter crying silly in front of her because of Madam Yun's merciless remark, old Madam Gu was just a step away from bursting in fury.

First her father fled from the battlefield as a coward, making Gu family lose their face as their in-laws and if that was not enough, that grandson of Lin family had garnered so much rank and reputation after winning the losing battle making the Gu family laughing stock in the whole of the Capital for discarding the eldest daughter of Lin's and then abandoning their own eldest daughter to establish better and close relationship with the New Marquis but now see.... who was the winner in the end.

And now that she had invited this little girl to returned to the capital city, into Gu Residence so that she could forge a better and close relationship with her before that lad from Lin family return, so that she would speak up for Gu Residence and shield them from Lin family's wrath for abandoning their daughter and grand daughter when they were down and out, this madam Yun had been making things difficult at every juncture.

When she first time saw how Madam Yun embraced Gu Yanyan that day and how Gu Yanyan cried in her arms, old Madam Gu thought, Madam Yun had made things easy for her for letting Gu Yanyan feel motherly love in her but seeing thing was going in front of her, old Madam Gu couldn't help but look at Madam Yun as if she was looking at a pretentious peacock.

She harden her gaze and warned Madam Yun for one last time before turning to Gu Yanran and gave her a look.

Even though Gu Yanran was fuming from inside she still maintained the aura of a gentle and obedient grand daughter who would do anything for her grand mother and turned towards Gu Yanyan to comfort her with her fake loving and caring words and gestures.

"Eldest sister, please, don't think like that. We all younger sisters love you and respect you as a younger sister should love and respect her elder sister. Please don't overthink things. It's not that we wanted to exclude or isolate you, we younger sisters just thought, you have been living in manor, away from home, away from us for so many years, so you wouldn't find it pleasing if we suddenly started to intrude in your life. Yes, that's the reason why we didn't come to find you." It seemed that Gu Yanran had finally found a good excuse to fool Gu Yanyan and put a little more force on insisting, how she was afraid of displeasing Gu Yanyan that's why they didn't come to find her in the last few days.

Seeing how adamant Gu Yanran was at putting pressure at her 'Yes' even Gu Yanyan almost believe her lies for a second.