Cheng Li walked forward while deep in thought. It wasn’t until the servant leading the way stopped that she snapped back to reality and saw that this was definitely not the room she had stayed in before.
"Miss, go on in!" The servant looked at the dazed Cheng Li and said mockingly.
"What do you an by this?" Cheng Li frowned, thinking to herself that Old Jiang wouldn’t arrange for her to stay in this room.
This didn’t look like a decent room at all; it looked more like a storage room, full of miscellaneous items and not even a bed.
"Calling you ’Miss,’ do you really think of yourself as such? Old Sir Jiang said until the truth of the matter is verified, you’ll stay here."
Cheng Li’s face turned sour as she glared at the servant and said, "I want to see Old Jiang!"
"Miss Cheng, I advise you not to go causing a scene. Old Sir Jiang definitely does not want to see you right now. Besides, I’m acting on his orders, so please don’t make things difficult for ," the servant said coldly. If before, because Cheng Li was the Jiang family’s Miss, they had to treat her with respect, now it was different. Her status clearly had a significant problem.
Even if Old Jiang hadn’t made it public yet, his attitude towards Cheng Li already revealed the truth. For people like them, longti servants in such wealthy families, understanding subtle cues was a well-honed skill.
"You?" Cheng Li was furious but had no recourse. Her entry into the Jiang Family was thanks to Old Jiang, and now her treatnt was also due to Old Jiang’s changed attitude towards her.
Moreover, she knew one principle: it’s difficult to deal with troubleso subordinates. These servants in the Jiang Family were similar to those irritating subordinates.
"Go in!" The servant, seeing Cheng Li was still in a daze, gave her a firm push.
Cheng Li stumbled forward into the storage room. Once she was inside, the person who brought her there locked the door securely.
Locked inside the storage room, Cheng Li slowly sat on the ground. Her mind was blank. Was she being held under house arrest?
Was her dream of wealth ending here?
She carefully recalled her behavior since coming to the Jiang Family and found no apparent flaws. But then what went wrong that Old Jiang knew she was an imposter?
Cheng Li couldn’t figure it out, her mind a ss.
In the study upstairs, after Cheng Li left, several mbers of the Jiang Family looked at Old Jiang, but no one spoke. They had no idea what to say since the person in charge in the Jiang Family was only Old Jiang.
As ti passed, Old Jiang finally spoke, "This ti it was my oversight. I shouldn’t have judged so quickly upon receiving the letter from the eldest one’s wife, assuming Cheng Li was a mber of the Jiang Family. I shouldn’t have rushed to organize that recognition banquet."
"Dad, don’t bla yourself too much; this isn’t your fault. If you want to bla soone, bla that woman Cheng Li. She’s the one who deceived you."
As soon as Jiang Rui finished consoling Old Sir Jiang, Old Madam Jiang imdiately spoke, "I don’t think so!"
"Old woman, what do you an?" Old Jiang turned to look at Old Madam Jiang, puzzled by her words. This was sothing only Cheng Li’s mother could have deceived him on, wasn’t it? Surely no one else was involved?
"What do I an? Have you really never considered that perhaps it was Shangguan You who deceived us?"
"Are you saying?" Old Jiang, having spent half a lifeti with Old Madam Jiang, understood her implication as soon as she spoke.
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