Gu Jiusi had fallen from the rockery because Wang Yue had moved so quickly. From the moment Ye Yun'er cried out, it had taken no more than a blink for him to reach them.
Gu Jiusi hurriedly used his Lightness Skill to leap onto the rockery. In his haste, he hadn't watched his footing, and his foot slipped, sending him tumbling down.
As it happened, Ye Yun'er's cry had been meant to draw people over. She wanted them to catch her tangled up with Wang Yue, so she could ask her parents to decide the matter for her and make Wang Yue take responsibility. She thought that since Sister Yuru was such a good person, there wouldn't be any conflict if the two of them were together.
Most importantly, Wang Yue was staying at her house, so she kept running into him. His unusual bearing was completely different from that of men in this era. He was even gentle and kind to servants, and before she knew it, she had fallen deeply in love with him.
Now that Wang Yue was already engaged, she had agonized over it for a long time and decided she had to burn her bridges.
She had indeed succeeded halfway. The servants who had been sent away, along with the guests who had come to the banquet, all hurried over when they heard her cry. They just happened to run into Gu Jiusi and Liu Siyu along the way.
So Ye Yun'er had managed to drag both Gu Jiusi and her close friend Liu Siyu into her scheme. Everyone saw the two of them clinging to each other in a disheveled state.
No one had expected to see something like this in the strictly disciplined Ye household. Everyone tried to guess what had happened, and