[System: Don't lose heart, host. Think about it: once you succeed, you'll stand in Wenren Luoshui's place, looking down your nose at all those people scrambling to curry favor with you.] [System: Don't you truly want a life like that, host?] [System: Are you really willing to give up just like this, host?]
An Sijia's gaze was as repulsive as a vulture's.
She stared fixedly at Wenren Luoshui's retreating figure as she disappeared around the turn of the stairs.
The less Wenren Luoshui wanted to be her friend, the more she wanted to drag someone so high and mighty down from her pedestal.
She wanted to watch herself crush Wenren Luoshui's pride and arrogance, bit by bit.
What did Wenren Luoshui have to be so smug about?
Wasn't she just better at choosing where to be born?
So what?
However exalted her status, could she possibly beat an outstanding woman who had received a modern education?
The wind scattered the clouds overhead, leaving a beautiful vista like rolling ocean waves.
[Salty Fish System: Hahahahaha! Host, I just found a hilarious bit of gossip. Want to hear it?] [Wenren Luoshui: Tell me, tell me!]
Having to rush to court before dawn every morning left Wenren Luoshui feeling as though her eyelids weighed a thousand pounds.
Without the system chatting about gossip with her whenever it had nothing to do, she was certain she would die of boredom.
Everyone discussing affairs of state pricked up their ears as well.
Whose juicy gossip would they hear today?
Some of the more lively ministers had taken to this remarkably quickly.
Now, those who were close would even place private bets on whose gossip Commandery Princess Luoshui would dig into at morning court the next day.
In their experience, the imperial