Xia Wanwan was so anxious that she sprang out of her father's arms!
"I knew you were up to no good! You want to steal my Yuanbao! I won't allow it!"
Xia Wanwan clung tightly to Yuanbao's arm, her little face fierce as she glared at Duke Yan.
Duke Yan looked at Yuanbao, torn.
Yuanbao: !!!
"Don't you dare take liberties with me! I thought you were a respectable old man. Who knew, you old geezer, that you'd harbor indecent intentions toward a peerless beauty like me?"
Yuanbao gritted his teeth and stamped his foot in anger. With a coy, aggrieved expression, he clung to Xia Wanwan, demanding that she stand up for him.
"Lord Gu Ming, didn't you promise me that as long as I apologized to Princess Ximing, you would come with me?"
Duke Yan looked utterly stunned.
Had he made the wrong judgment?
But the person before him had such an arrogant temper. Surely that was precisely the pride Lord Gu Ming ought to possess.
At that, a middle-aged man standing nearby reached out a finger and poked him.
"Hey, I'll go with you," Gu Ming said meekly.
"Get away! Who do you think you are, daring to touch this duke?" His rebuke frightened Gu Ming into taking a step back.
In the end, Yuanbao beat Gu Ming up and threw him out of the Ninth Prince's Residence.
"He's the Gu Ming you're looking for. Now get lost, both of you!" Yuanbao said impatiently.
Duke Yan felt that someone so wild and unrestrained was what Lord Gu Ming ought to be like.
Yet he could not help frowning deeply at the timid middle-aged man before him.
"You..."
"It's me! I'm borrowing this body, and they've bullied me mercilessly! Boohoo!" Gu Ming sobbed. "Didn't you see? Everyone around