"Princess Qian Du is going to Kunlun too?" Luo Qi asked in surprise.
Because of her birth, Luo Qi had never been able to regard herself as one of the wealthy and powerful.
Even though Gongsun Yu had always treated her as a sister, she was still accustomed to addressing Gongsun Yu as "Miss" and Lu Qingming as "Young Master" or "Master."
After all, she had once been Gongsun Yu's dowry maid.
That was why she always addressed Qian Du as "Her Highness the Princess." It made things seem overly formal and created an invisible distance between them.
Gongsun Yu was much more natural and at ease when facing Qian Du. She addressed her directly as "Qian Du" and treated her entirely as her own junior's friend. Because of that, Qian Du felt a deep sense of warmth and belonging toward Li Mu Yang's mother.
Very often, a person's birth determined the breadth of their vision and the scale of their outlook.
It was not that Luo Qi loved Li Mu Yang any less than Gongsun Yu did. On the contrary, for more than a decade, she had devoted herself to him selflessly—
But in front of Gongsun Yu, she was instead the one with a guilty conscience.
That was also why she and Li Yan had previously feared that the Lu family would seek out Li Mu Yang and acknowledge him as kin. They were afraid of losing their son.
They simply had never expected that this loss would come through such a brutal separation.
"Yes." Qian Du held one of her hands in Gongsun Yu's grasp while taking Luo Qi's hand with the other. Smiling, she said, "Luo Qi, I came this time to say farewell to you and Aunt Gongsun. After seeing you both, I'll head to