Heaven Beyond, Xiao Qing's Residence.
Just as Ya Fei and Xiao Qing were about to leave the Ninth Layer of Heavenly Strategy Manor, Gu Yue had already learned that Xiao Qing had personally taken Ya Fei to see Xiao Tian Ce.
At that moment, Gu Yue's hair lay tangled over her shoulders, and her face was deathly pale. She knew what she was about to face.
At the same time, an emotion called regret kept rising within her.
Yes, regret.
If only she had not listened to her grandfather Gu Dao back then, when he said the Gu Clan needed her help, when he said that although she held the prestigious position of the Xiao Clan's Clan Chief's Wife, she could never hold it securely without the Gu Clan's support behind her.
If only she had not sent the Gu Clan enough resources to produce more than a dozen Dou Sheng Experts. If only, after learning that she had stirred resentment among the Xiao Clan Members, she had mended the pen after losing the sheep instead of ignoring those voices because she was the Xiao Clan's Clan Chief's Wife.
Would things have turned out differently now?
Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in this world.
Or perhaps, when Gu Dao had asked her to help send members of the Gu Clan into the Heavenly Tomb to seize the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance, if she had considered the Xiao Clan's interests more from her position as the Xiao Clan Chief's Wife, then even if Xiao Tian Ce was displeased with his niece-in-law, Xiao Qing would not have given up on her.
All one could say was that everyone had to pay for their actions. As the saying went, plant melons and reap melons; plant beans and reap beans. The seeds one