The oppressive aura radiating from him frightened Yu into taking a step back. Even her breathing became cautious.
She patted her ample chest and sized Gu Ming up again.
There was nothing so impressive about him. Wasn't he just a servant?
She continued, "The Duke's Residence really has fallen on hard times. Even a servant gets treated as an honored guest. What a waste of the title the old duke paid for with his life. You're such a spineless Duke. If your parents had been just as spineless, perhaps they wouldn't have died!"
"Yu!"
Duke Yan was truly furious. He slammed the table and rose, coldness radiating from him as he gritted his teeth. "Say that again!"
His parents' deaths were a wound he would carry in his heart for the rest of his life.
He had been forced to marry this woman, and had resented her deeply from the start.
It wasn't that the noble ladies of other families shunned her. Rather, every time someone came to visit, Yu would humiliate them until they left in tears.
Once, the Deputy Minister of Revenue's wife and legitimate daughter had even come to the Duke's Residence ancestral hall to pay their respects to the Late Madam. Yu considered this an affront to her. To further disgrace Duke Yan and ruin his reputation, she had actually pushed the deputy minister's legitimate daughter into the water.
She had pretended to arrange for the girl to change her clothes, while Yu's lover secretly slipped inside and violated the Deputy Minister of Revenue's legitimate daughter.
Yu had also verbally humiliated the deputy minister's wife, using every filthy word she knew to call mother and daughter cheap sluts and wanton whores.
The Deputy Minister of Revenue wasn't powerful enough to challenge the Duke's Residence. Without evidence,