Chapter 73 I Want My Family to Be Proud of Me
Zhao HongXiang, wait for me. If I didn't make you wish you were better off dead than alive, then I, Mu Zi You, would be squandering the opportunity the heavens gave me.
Zi You picked up her makeup brush and started to put on makeup. She had on pale silver eye shadow, glossy pink lip gloss, a diamond-encrusted pink flower between her eyebrows, and long and curly eyelashes.
She braided her wavy, black hair into a large braid decorated with strands of white, glass beads. Two strands of hair were left brushing against her cheeks. The wind blowing them added a bit of seductive charm.
A twelve-year-old little girl was already beautiful enough to shock people. Her noble temperament, elegant makeup, cold eyes, and elegant posture made her unforgettable.
Her every gesture inadvertently revealed an enchanting manner and charm that drew people into lingering in the dream.
Even when Old General Mu and Mu YingYi saw this kind of Zi You, they had a "our family's daughter grew up" kind of feeling. They smiled until their eyes curved.
The people Duke Yongnan fu invited were all from the high, noble society. There were lots of royalty, including Wangzis [princes, usually sons of the Emperor] and Wangyes [princes, brothers of the Emperor or of bestowed title]. Everyone brought their family's gongzis and xiaojies. To put it bluntly, this opportunity was to sell their own gongzis and xiaojies in order to find a good daughter- or son-in law.
Zi You was wearing a narrow-on-top, but wide-in-the-bottom dress. A greenish silver threaded silk cape draped over her shoulders. She seemed like a person from Great Yan, but also from India. Even hidden among a group of gorgeously-dressed woman, one could see her with a glance.
So she immediately attracted everyone's attention as soon as she alighted from the horse carriage. Someone even exclaimed, "Heavens! Who is this? Why haven't I seen here before? She's so beautiful!"
Someone recognized that it was a horse carriage from the General's Manor and immediately whispered softly, "It's the General's Manor horse carriage. Is she not Old General Mu's eldest Di granddaughter, the one who doesn't want to see others?"
"It seems to be. Two years ago, her facial features seemed a bit special but wasn't as beautiful. Why does it seem like she turned into a different person after a short, two years of not seeing her?"
"Yes, yes. When she used to meet people, she had her head down, hunched her back, and didn't speak, just like a closed gourd. But now..."
"..."
Most people couldn't hear such low conversation. But because Zi You practiced martial arts, she had sharp ears. She naturally heard and understood everyone's words clearly.
She could not help but secretly sneer. Before? Before, she was afraid of everyone staring at her, talking about her different, alien appearance, and laughing at her mother for being a lowly Nanyi person. She was too ashamed to hold her head up.
But now she's figured it out. Her grandfather and uncle treated her mother with so much respect. Why should she feel inferior and ashamed because her mother was of a different ethnicity because Great Yan's people?
One day, she would have Great Yan's citizens respect her like they did grandfather and uncle. She would certainly have her family and mother be proud of her.
Zi You straightened her back, lifted her head, thrust out her chest, slightly lowered her chin, and calmly and leisurely walked with a dignified and elegant pace to Née Liu's side.