Not all the onlookers reacted that way.
Jiang Yingcheng, who knew the truth of the matter, not only refrained from lashing out but even spoke up in support in her soft, sweet voice. "D-don't be mean to Sister Ruihan..."
Ding Ruihan looked up, touched.
The kindness of someone delivering charcoal in the snow was always especially precious. Although their previous encounter had not been particularly pleasant, she had truly never expected the little one to defend her under these circumstances.
The little one was so adorable. She must have misunderstood her before-
Before Ding Ruihan could finish that thought, Jiang Yingcheng crisply supplied the rest of her sentence. "It's really hard for Sister Ruihan to save money in an environment like the Ding Residence!"
The assembled officials: "..." You hadn't spared her either!
Ding Ruihan: "..."
She had been right all along. This was a "little devil"!
Yet she had no time to get angry about it.
Ding was not an uncommon surname.
But when a family surnamed Ding was mentioned in Wind Brocade Commandery, coupled with her visibly expensive clothes and jewelry, everyone instinctively thought of that particular "Ding Family."
Sure enough, hesitant voices soon rose outside the government office.
"The Ding Family... is that the Ding Family I'm thinking of?"
"...Probably?"
If it were not that Ding Family, why would the Little Highness have said something like "an environment like that"?
But if it really was that Ding Family... how could this woman possibly have any so-called family heirloom?!
Ding Ruihan trembled all over with anger at this turn of events, yet she did not dare utter even a single word in rebuttal-
That little dumpling's status was something she would still have to look up to even if she spent her whole life striving!
She could only