Too many eyes were fixed on Gu Bailu the moment she entered the dinner hall. She was wearing a pink dress with a hundred pleats under a cloak that had the vivid image of a crane on it, making her beautiful and distinctive.

  She caught everyone’s attention the moment she showed up.

  The female guests at the dinner were all wearing the bold and fashionable clothes of Pale Emperor City which accentuated their bosoms and figures.

  None of them were like Gu Bailu, who still looked gorgeous in conservative attire.

  Gu Bailu’s stomach indicated that she was pregnant, but she moved gracefully, as if she wasn’t pregnant at all.

  Her cute face was even more inviting and alluring given the contrast of what she was wearing.

  Everybody had to admit that Gu Bailu was really good-looking. No wonder Prince Zi, who usually wasn’t fond of women, had been mesmerized.

  But she was still useless despite her good looks.

  Relying on your face alone to serve a man never worked out in the long term. Prince Zi had already tossed her aside.

  “How is she shameless enough to show up?” the noble ladies whom she had overshadowed asked in disdain.

  “She was invited.”

  “She came here after she was thrown away twice by Prince Zi. How brazen.”

  Gu Bailu walked over to Feng Qingtian and curtsied. “Greetings, Prince Zi.”

  Feng Qingtian’s eyes glittered with anxiety. Why was she here?

  Didn’t he tell her to stay at home?

  Qin Shou whispered to him, “The empress dowager sent her an invitation.”

  “Why wasn’t it reported?”

  “Those watching the Gu house thought that it wasn’t unusual and didn’t report it. I just learned of it from the palace guards.”

  It wasn’t the watchers’ fault. An invitation to the empress dowager’s birthday celebration was sent to the Gu house every year.

  “Prince Zi?” Gu Bailu prodded when she saw his stunned expression.

  You seem too fascinated by me, don’t you? Am I that pretty?

  Feng Qingtian grunted and asked, “Why are you here?”

  “If you don’t want to see me, I’ll leave.” Gu Bailu wanted him to kick up a fuss and toss her out, so that she had an excuse to skip this dangerous dinner.

  Feng Qingtian pointed at a seat not far away. “Sit there and keep your distance from me.”

  He couldn’t bear to embarrass her in front of so many ministers.

  “As you wish.” Gu Bailu calmed down.

  Since Feng Qingtian didn’t tell her to go, did that mean that the party today wouldn’t be too intolerable?

  Gu Bailu sat down, only to hear the blatant whispers around her about how she had been abandoned and how she had shamelessly crept back to Prince Zi’s house.

  Someone even said that the baby in her womb was a bastard.

  Gu Bailu grabbed a plate from the table and threw it at the woman’s face.

  They could slander her, but to say that her baby was a bastard?

  No, not a chance.

  A baby shouldn’t be blamed for its parents’ faults. Why should she let her baby be insulted by these inhuman creatures?

  Not expecting the plate, the woman tried to dodge, but it glanced her. She screamed, “You abandoned piece of garbage, you dare to hit me?!”


  507 Please Make Things Right, Empress Dowager

  Gu Bailu raised an eyebrow. “Yes. The abandoned garbage hit you.”

  She then threw another plate, this time at the woman’s head instead of her face.

  The plate smashed against the woman’s head before anyone could react. Blood immediately burst out like a spring.

  “Ah……” The woman cried out in agony and fell over the table.

  All the participants at the party were dumbstruck. Why was she so cocky without Prince Zi’s protection?

  On the other hand, why was she so strong? Wasn’t she a piece of garbage? But she had obviously demonstrated spiritual power just now.

  Did she have spiritual power now?

  “What’s going on?” A team of guards rushed into the hall, and everybody cleared the way for them.

  The woman fell to the ground, and her maid was weeping. “The garbage killed her! The garbage killed her……”

  Gu Bailu snorted. “The way you’re carrying on, is being killed by garbage something to be proud about?”

  The captain of the guards noticed Gu Bailu, and got a strong headache. Why was it this woman again? Why was she stirring up trouble in the royal palace?

  The captain looked at Princess Zi, who was absolutely still, and wondered what to do about the former princess.

  Unable to make out Prince Zi’s attitude, he could only say, “Miss Gu, it’s the empress dowager’s birthday celebration today. Let’s not cause any trouble.”

  “I’m not causing trouble. She slandered my baby, so I had to hit her.” Gu Bailu implied that she herself was fine with the slander, which she was used to, but she couldn’t let her baby be hurt by the malice of this world before it was born.

  A person’s resentment had power and could be harmful.

  A person’s consciousness, thoughts and curses had power too. While the power wasn’t always noticeable, it could cause damage when it accumulated.

  If someone hated a person for decades and cursed her every day, her life wouldn’t be great.

  While Gu Bailu had never practiced any curse skills, she had read about them in the books of her family.

  Therefore, she couldn’t let anyone badmouth her baby.

  The ignorant people could say that Prince Zi wasn’t her baby’s father, which was fine, but to call her baby a bastard was beyond what she would tolerate.

  The captain looked at the woman on the ground and sweated. He recognized her as the eighth daughter of the Bai family, and all the daughters of the family were great troublemakers.

  You could have gossiped behind Gu Bailu’s back; why did you have to say anything in front of her? Did you actually want to be beaten up?

  Even if Gu Bailu had been abandoned, it was still possible that Prince Zi would miss her later and take her back again.

  Miss Bai should’ve thought of the possibility, and be nicer to Gu Bailu.

  “Ask the royal doctor to treat her. Nobody is to cause any trouble at the empress dowager’s party……” The captain could only hope to mediate.

  The maid, however, shouted, “She hit my lady at the empress dowager’s party without warning. No, I’ll report it to the empress dowager. Her Highness will make things right!”

  Bai Suzhen, the eighth daughter of the Bai family, had a jagged wound on her head, and blood was still bubbling out in a shocking manner.