An outsider?

Gu Lingzhi scoffed, if she was an outsider, then Rong Yuan was one too.

“I’m here to see His Highness, please get him to come out,” Gu Lingzhi decided to be straightforward. The bodyguard standing at the door looked at her pitifully, “The princess is injured and needs His Highness to care for her. I’m afraid he won’t be able to meet you.”

The other bodyguard cried out in laughter, “What’s the point of explaining things to her? It’s a matter of time before she finds out anyway. It is better for her to find out earlier than wait to be abandoned. What’s not yours will eventually have to be returned anyway, don’t you agree, Lady Gu?”

“Find out what exactly? What have I taken that’s not mine?” Gu Lingzhi mumbled to herself.

“Send for him now. I am his fiancée and I have the right to meet him.”

“Fiancée? Ha!” the second bodyguard scoffed, as if he had just heard a bad joke. He swept his eyes over her, “Someone like you is unworthy of being his fiancée.”

The bodyguard’s words caused...