"Of course not!" Lady Serena said happily. "Come, have a seat! Today, we’ve specially prepared your favorite Jade Purity Wine!"
"No rush," Snow Yuan replied with a smile. "I still have a birthday gift for Lady Serena!"
Serena Summers was delighted and a little overwhelmed. She smiled excitedly, "What kind of gift? I can’t wait to see!"
Snow Yuan clapped her hands, and a woman walked in from outside.
She wore green immortal robes, her looks plain, with small eyes and thin lips—a face that radiated a certain mean and venomous vibe.
Lily Bai thought the woman looked familiar.
Who was she again?
Snow Yuan revealed the answer: "When I was in the mortal realm, I met your daughter from your time in the human world. Since today is Lady Serena’s birthday, I thought I’d bring her here so you could reunite! Do you like this gift, Lady Serena?"
Serena’s expression changed instantly.
She really was her "daughter"—in a way.
She was the illegitimate daughter of Serena’s ex-husband, named Chang Gu.
In the Nanlu Kingdom, she was given the title of Princess Royal—Princess Royal Chang Gu.
Back then, she and her mother were the ones who killed Serena’s child and drove her to the brink of despair...
Chang Gu looked at Lady Serena, but didn’t salute or offer birthday wishes. Instead, she glanced around the hall with a face full of grief and anger, and said, "Serena Summers! Aren’t you impressive! Celebrating your birthday and the Three Realms come to pay their respects!"
Serena stared at her, saying nothing.
"So good people die young and villains live forever, huh?" Chang Gu enunciated each word. "You abandoned my father and married someone else! To make sure your plans worked out, you even killed him! People like you deserve to be struck down by Heaven’s Thunder! How are you qualified to enjoy all this?"
The whole room was stunned.
Everyone started whispering and gossiping.
Lord River Drake was furious and shouted, "How dare you! Who gave you permission to spout such nonsense and slander Lady Serena!"
"Lord River Drake." Chang Gu, clearly emboldened by Snow Yuan’s support, showed no fear. "Every word I’ve said is true! You’ve probably been fooled by Serena Summers too!"
After everything her aunt suffered because of them, now they had the nerve to come and slander her again!
Lily Bai was so furious she could hardly breathe; she sprang up, ready to confront Chang Gu.
But before she could act, High Immortal Quinn spoke up: "Is what you’re saying true? So Lady Serena’s reputation for virtue is all a lie?"
"High Immortal, every word I say is the absolute truth!" Chang Gu grew even more animated when someone questioned her. "This vicious woman killed her husband and child just to climb up to Lord River Drake! She deserves to be cast into the Eighteen Hells, never to be reborn!"
High Immortal Quinn asked, "What is your name?"
"High Immortal, I am Chang Gu, daughter of the former king of Nanlu—the very man Serena Summers abandoned!"
"And do you know where you are right now?" High Immortal Quinn continued.
"Of course! This is Drake Abyss, Lord River Drake’s Manor," Chang Gu replied.
"Did your parents ever teach you that you must not lie in front of the gods?"
Chang Gu’s eyes flickered. "I swear on my life—I am not lying! Every word is the absolute truth."
High Immortal Quinn nodded. "So you’re saying Lord River Drake and Lady Serena are fools? That they failed to see the truth?"
Chang Gu waved her hands frantically, "No, no! I didn’t mean that! It’s just that Serena Summers is too cunning, always pretending to be pitiful and weak to win everyone’s sympathy!"
"No matter how she acts, if a god can’t even judge the character of the person beside him, he’s hardly fit to be a High God." High Immortal Quinn said coolly. "Lord River Drake, what do you think?"