The yellow talisman looked cheap, stained with the sweat of a humid palm, and the cinnabar patterns on it showed signs of blurring.
It was like something you could buy in bulk for ten dollars on some online marketplace.
Yet somehow, Gu Ling had an intuition that the beautiful lady would surely not deceive her.
To say the least, her life was not good.
Though born into the elite Gu Family, as another Lady of the Gu Family, the difference between her and Gai Yun was like heaven and earth, a world apart.
Sitting loftily above the clouds was Gai Yun, while trodden down into the mire was Gu Ling.
As a child, she once had a rebellious heart and felt it was unfair, but reality had already taught her to submit.
Gai Yun's mother hailed from the equally prestigious Zhu Family, while her own mother came from an ordinary working-class family.
Logically speaking, her mother should never have crossed paths with the Gu Family, as they were worlds apart.
