The Gu Family naturally disliked the news. They had caught wind of it two days prior and had merely spent the time digesting it in secret, forcing themselves to accept the reality.
Gu Baijiang sighed heavily. This was far from what he had envisioned. He was supposed to make a glorious, triumphant return to the capital. Now, his face was ruined, and his political career was destroyed.
What bothered him the most was that their official status hadn't been restored. Even with a ruined face, he should have still been a respected imperial scholar; instead, he was now nothing more than a commoner.
"Father, are we packing up and heading back?" Gu Kaiping could feel the old man's simmering resentment, but he forced himself to ask anyway.
"Go back? How can we go back?" Gu Baijiang snapped. "Wouldn't we just become a laughingstock?"
He had cared about his reputation his entire life and absolutely refused to return in such disgrace.
