There was a noise in my ears.

Xie Yang looked up and saw that it was the host of tonight's banquet who had come to the center of the banquet hall.

Thinking of the theme of tonight's banquet, Xie Yang was stunned for a few seconds, wanting to see how Nanyou felt.

As a result, when I looked up, I saw Nan You holding up her skirt and slowly moving out of the crowd while everyone was flattering Old Madam Nan.

Xie Yang looked thoughtfully at the crowd that had gradually quieted down and was waiting for Old Lady Nan to speak. He tapped the screen of his mobile phone with his fingers and walked towards Nan You.

Xie Yang slowly searched for Nan You's figure outside the crowd.

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Nan You hadn't gone downstairs yet. She took advantage of the time when no one was paying attention to her and whispered to Ye Zhi.

"Mom, can I go away quietly for a moment?"

Ye Zhi naturally understood her thoughts. After sighing inwardly, she smiled and said, "Youyou, you can do whatever you want. If you feel tired, Mom can ask your second brother to take you back to rest."

Nanyou instantly understood what Ye Zhi meant.

Her whole body was filled with joy. She gently shook Ye Zhi's hand and said coquettishly in a soft voice, "Thank you, Mom. But I'm not tired yet. I want to play for a while."

"Okay, it's up to you. If you feel tired, come to me or my brother."

After getting Ye Zhi's permission, Nan You went downstairs to the banquet hall.

Amidst the people complimenting Grandma or talking about himself and Nan Sheng, he carefully and slowly moved away from the center of public opinion.

She thought she was doing it secretly, but in fact, she was seen clearly by others and was moving towards her.

The dinner officially begins

Nanyou stood in a corner slightly further back, staring at the stage where everyone was watching.

As the current head of the Nan family, Nan Yanhua slowly walked onto the stage and faced the guests.

"Dear relatives and friends, I am honored to be able to gather with you here at this beautiful moment. I invited you here today to share my mother... Thank you again for coming! My mother also wants to share more joy with you next."

Guests under the stage

Some thought the theme of the dinner was simply Mrs. Nan’s birthday party;

But some know that there is another theme.

Therefore, the two groups of people focused their attention on the stage with different expressions.

Nanyou's gaze followed everyone else's and fell on the stage, but her drooping hands unconsciously grabbed her skirt.

Under the gazes of Nan You and everyone else, Nan Sheng, wearing a white long-tail dress and a pigeon-blood diamond necklace, slowly walked onto the stage, supporting Old Lady Nan.

Nan You felt that Nan Sheng was really dazzling today. Her eyebrows and eyes were extremely similar to those of Old Lady Nan or Nan Yanhua.

Her appearance is not similar to theirs at all...

Nan You felt that even people who were not familiar with the Nan family could recognize who was the young lady of the Nan family at a glance.

Although Mrs. Nan is seventy-five years old, her voice is very loud and powerful.

"Thank you, my dear friend, for coming to my birthday party...but I'm not the main character of this dinner."

The guests in the audience who were unaware of the situation immediately looked at each other and whispered.

Old Lady Nan looked at the audience, took Nan Sheng's hands and patted them, then smiled and stated the purpose of the dinner.

"This is my granddaughter, Nan Sheng. Due to some reasons, she was separated from our family for twenty years. Finally, she returned to the Nan family not long ago and reunited with us. So, I wanted to take advantage of this dinner to let her meet everyone..."

Before she finished speaking, the guests in the banquet hall were shocked by what Old Lady Nan said, their eyes widened and they whispered to each other.

Many eyes were not only on Nan Sheng on the stage, but they were also looking for the figure of Nan You, the former daughter of the Nan family.

Feeling the scrutiny of the people around her, Nan You tried her best to maintain her composure.

But the trembling fingers pinching her skirt revealed her inner fragility...

She knew that after tonight, a lot of things would change.

Nanyou suddenly felt a little regretful. If she had listened to her mother, she would have gone home first...

While Nan You was feeling down, Old Madam Nan had already introduced Nan Sheng to many wealthy wives and daughters.

Around her, she gradually began to hear discussions that she had expected but found difficult to accept.

"The upper class is really chaotic. What on earth caused the real and fake daughters to be swapped?"

"It's not as melodramatic as in the novels, where Nanyou's biological parents deliberately replaced each other in order to give their daughter a good life..."

"Mrs. Nan seemed to love her granddaughter very much. She held her hand wherever she went."

"Doesn't that make Nanyou a discarded pawn? Will there be a real and fake daughter fight? I really want to see it!"

"Shh~ Stop talking, there's someone behind you..."

"She's standing behind me, and she's not as good as me, so what am I afraid of..."

Listening to the discussion about herself, Nan You's face turned pale as paper, her body trembling slightly. Before tears could fall, she bit her lower lip tightly and walked out of the banquet hall...

Xie Yang slowly moved from the other side to Nan You's side. He just saw her profile and was about to go over.

In the end, the other party walked out without looking back...

Xie Yang, who was already close to Nanyou, also heard the random speculations of the people around him about Nanyou.

His expression suddenly darkened, and he glanced at them fiercely with obscure eyes. "If you don't want to be kicked out, keep your mouth shut."

The commentators, feeling warned and threatened, were initially indignant.

But after seeing Xie Yang's face clearly, he was so scared that he quickly shut his mouth and left.

Xie Yang didn't worry about them anymore and headed in the direction Nan You left.

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Nanyou, who had already walked to the center of the yard, sat on a stool in the corner with her eyes lowered, staring blankly at the ground without moving.

The cool breeze blowing across her face could remove the heat, but it could not remove the bitterness in her heart.

Nan You thought that after escaping from the banquet hall full of discussions, she could pretend that those unpleasant speculations did not exist.

But the guests who came and went reminded her again and again.

She must remember that tonight is the banquet for the real daughter of the Nan family, the one she has occupied for twenty years.

"Nanyou didn't come tonight? She wasn't sent back to her biological parents, was she?"

"It feels so magical. I used to be jealous of her, but it turns out she's a fake..."

"Miss Nan, you look so dazzling tonight! My mother said the jewelry she's wearing is so precious, it's the only one of its kind in the world!"

"Wow, Old Madam Nan dotes on her granddaughter so much..."

These passersby did not notice that the protagonist of the conversation was sitting in the corner.

He kept using sharp words to hurt Nanyou's heart.

Nanyou tried hard to tell herself that such discussions would happen frequently in the future and she shouldn't care about them.

But as they spoke one after another, Nanyou couldn't help but tear up...

Xie Yang stood not far behind her, looking at the girl who was staring blankly with her head down, feeling an indescribable irritation in his heart.

But he didn't understand where the irritation came from, so he walked behind Nanyou.

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