Seeing Gu Li take pen in hand, Gu Baijiang kowtowed so hard his head made loud THUMP THUMP THUMP sounds against the ground. "Eldest Uncle, I beg you, give our branch a way out..."
"Eldest Granduncle, please, we beg you! From now on, we will put the family first in everything," the others pleaded.
"I thought we were here to discuss compensation," Gu Kaichen said. "How did it escalate to expulsion from the clan?"
Gu Kaiyuan shot him a glance, noting that the man wasn't completely stupid after all; in fact, he was being quite sensible.
Gu Antong, meanwhile, looked ashen. Over the past two days, she had sensed the Third Prince developing a special sort of affection for her. She had been planning to push a little harder to win him over completely, only to have her own family drag her down. She wondered why this was happening. She didn't even know these people. Her family had already apologized and offered compensation, so why wouldn't they just let her off the hook?
